Bob Barto Email & Phone Number

Actor, Singer, Musician, Composer Stage Manager, Director Phone: 302-354-5392 Cowboybob001@hotmail.comTRAINING: B.A. degree in Theatre & Speech from DeSales University, Center Valley, PA EXPERIENCE:• Musician and performer for two seasons at Bush Gardens in Williamsburg, VA. Created character of Cowboy Bob in the Goodtime Country Show. Played guitar and piano, sang and told jokes, thirty-eight shows/week.• Small Intrastate Tour of “Delaware Ghosts” for The Delaware Theater Company, acting and playing a variety of instruments for this historic presentation. Also, Jacob Marley in “Christmas Carol.” • Six tours with Rick Trow Productions; a multimedia production company. Performed one-man high school assembly programs sponsored by Kodak, Coca-Cola, Ski Industries America, Atari and co-sponsored, in some markets, by local radio stations. Performed approximately ten shows a week in pre-booked venues as a “staff lecturer.”• Two tours with The Dream Makers Repertory Children’s Theatre. Company manager for one tour. Acted and played piano for the performances. • Monticello Tent-a-Rama Summer Theatre: Played Jeff in “Bells Are Ringing,” Johny Nolan in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Greg Bateson in “King of Flatbush Ave.” Co-composed score for “King of Flatbush Ave.” • Prather Productions: Played the Stage Forman and stage managed “The Sunshine Boys” • Arden Guild: Played Peter Quince in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” • Chapel Street Players: Played Joe Benjamin in “God’s Favorite,” Gregory Solomon in “The Price”.• Kent County Theatre Guild: Father in “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” Josef in “Strictly Murder,” Mishkin in “Fools,” Sam in “Johnny Guitar,” Dad, in “A Nice Family Gathering," Fred in "No Sex Please, It's Christmas.”• DeSales University (Allentown Summer Theatre 1973) Played Jocquot in Carnival. • DeSales University (Allentown College, at the time): Minor roles in “Time Limit,” “The Detective Story,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Played Lucianus in “Hamlet,” Tomas Diafreau in “Imaginary Invalid,” Moon Face Martin in “Anything Goes.” Stage-managed “Charley’s Aunt,” and “A Man for All Seasons.” One of the fourteen original members of The Allentown College Theatre Company, later to become the Theatre program at DeSales University.SPECIALTIES: • 5TH Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate • Plays Piano, Guitar, Violin, Mandolin, Concertina, Harmonica (not all at once) • Puppets• Some dialects