Richard Skipper Celebrates Robert Montano 3/07/2022

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Robert Montano – was raised in Hempstead, LI, close enough to Belmont Park Racetrack where he had his first career as a professional racehorse jockey. However, by age 18, Mother Nature caught up to him and outgrew his silks. Smitten by the film Saturday Night Fever, Robert traded his jockey boots for ballet slippers and applied to Adelphi Universities dance department at age 20 without any prior training. He was accepted and offered a full scholarship. One week shy of graduating he booked his first professional job in, “Cats.” His career took off jumping from one show to the next, working with great directors and choreographers such as Hal Prince, Rob Marshall, and Jerome Robbins. He has also had the pleasure of working with the legendary, Chita Rivera in Kiss Of The Spiderwoman, as well as her act, Chita Plus Two... he sang and danced with Peter Allen in Legs Diamond, and starred as Ozzie in On The Town, directed by the innovative George C. Wolfe. But he couldn’t contain his creative scope to only musical theatre so he ventured into plays, film, and television. He has created roles for the Academy Award nominated writer, Jose Rivera in Cloud Tectonics, and References To Salvador Dali Makes Me Hot, Lynn Nottages play, Fabulation, Bess Wohl’s, Barcelona, Tira Palmquist’s, Two Degrees, Ken in’s, Fallow, Richard Vetere’s, One Shot One Kill, and Edwin Sanchez’s, Diosa. At Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Robert was given the honor to portray Cal in the epic of East Of Eden, directed by Jon Jory, later to be invited back to exercise his Shakespeare in Comedy Of Errors.  www.robertmontano.com