Robert Bryn has had a deep interest in the spoken word and stories his entire life and has always, as long as he can remember, written poetry. He acted in plays in high school, had a poem published, and got shoehorned into the National Honor Society after he placed second in a speech contest with a speech he wrote and delivered. He went to Kenyon College, Paul Newman’s alma mater, for one year where he performed in Romeo and Juliet with Josh Radnor from How I met your Mother. Josh played Romeo and Rob was an unnamed Montague servant and a guardsman. After Kenyon Rob spent 3 years studying filmmaking at the Academy of Art in San Francisco before leaving without a degree to go spend six months in Los Angeles broke, going to parties, and couch surfing, before finally coming back East. He moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2000 and started making short films with the older brother that would go on to start Roberta’s Pizza and name it after their mother. From the short films and Royal Oak bar he met Bonnie Pipkin who produced and acted in 3 feature length plays that Rob wrote and directed. Including the Shakespearean, Hamlet inspired epic, Eagle the Terrorizer, which they spent 3 months on, had a cast of almost 20, was 3 hours long, and sold out every time it was ever performed. For some reason he stopped writing plays and started a band called Wild Yaks, where he wrote all the songs and was the lead singer and band leader. Wild Yaks was the main focus of his artistic life for 20 years. Fame and fortune alluded them but they did get to play in London and Rob did gaze upon the Globe Theater walking by it down the street. 2 years ago he was immensely pleased to play Bottom in a production of, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, presented at the amphitheater in Rockaway Beach. Romeo and Juliet is the first Shakespeare play he’s directing and it feels like everything he’s ever worked on has lead him to this moment. Oh and he did make a short movie two years ago that premiered at the Rockaway Film Festival, called “Kook Mike goes Surfing” watch it on YouTube