Biography
2024 Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle nomination; & winner of the ACOR award for his solo play, SMALL. Based on his real life story as a racehorse jockey.
Robert Montano, was raised in Hempstead, LI, close enough to Belmont Park Racetrack where he had his first career as a professional racehorse jockey. Things took a turn and then found his way into the biz of show; trading in his riding boots for ballet slippers. He has since worked with great directors and choreographers such as Hal Prince, Rob Marshall, and Jerome Robbins. He 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 on Broadway in On The Town, directed by George C. Wolfe. But he couldn't contain his creative scope to only musical theatre so he ventured into plays, film, and television.
Mr. Montano, has created roles for the Academy Award nominated writer, Jose Rivera in The Hours are Feminine, Cloud Tectonics, and References To Salvador Dali Makes Me Hot, Lynn Nottages play, Fabulation, Bess Wohl's, Barcelona, Tira Palmquist's, Two Degrees, Ken Lin'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. He has also played, Ralph, opposite John C. Reilly in Marty.
