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received his training at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California. His early influences included street theatre and circus work in Europe.

In 1979 he assisted in founding Theatre de la Jeune Lune where he served as co-Artistic Director from 1985 through 2005 and is credited as an actor, writer, director or lighting designer in more than 75 productions. Bob has conceived and directed several original works including: Circus, The Golem, The Description of the World, Circus of Tales, and several works for the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In 2006 he directed Dario Fo’s controversial play The Pope and the Witch at the University of Minnesota. He co-created and directed Deviants, with Live Action Set, for the Minnesota Fringe Festival and appeared as Bob in their production of My Father’s Bookshelf. His recent directorial work includes Crawdaddy, an original piece by a consortium of Dell’Arte alumni which was performed at the 2009 Calgary Animated Objects Festival and Stories As Told In A Bed, a new work by Barbra Berlovitz.

Bob is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and was a 2010/11 Playwrights' Center McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow.