BENEDETTO ROBINSON
Actor | Fight Choreographer | Action Performer I Playwright
"Robinson’s sharp script, which captures the flourish of Stoker’s writing, keeps the pace humming by reconfiguring some of the novel’s epistolary format into direct dialogue.... Robinson is a deliciously creepy Dracula, sporting blood-red eyes and an unctuous authority; he’s a villain of few words, which allows his dramatic physicality to project the full weight of his power."
-Rachel Garbus, Arts ATL
Originally from Windham, Maine, Benedetto is based in Atlanta, GA. Benedetto is a graduate of Elon University's BFA Acting program and an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He is a specialty performer in swordplay, dialects, Shakespeare and Period Styles.
As a Playwright, his original Adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Entitled Dracula: The Failings of Men has received two full mounts over four seasons; one with the Cherokee Historical Association at the Mountainside Theatre in North Carolina and one with the Atlanta Shakespeare Company. Both have been produced in tandem with Atlanta's own Havoc Movement.
DRACULA: The Failings of Men
In October of 2021, Havoc Movement opened and premiered Dracula: The Failings of Men, an original adaptation of Bram Stoker's famous novel by Benedetto Robinson at the Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, NC in collaboration with the Unto These Hills outdoor drama. The project met with extreme success, significantly outperforming its expectations. In it, Benedetto debuted the title Role. Below is the Promo for the Cherokee run, which lasted two seasons.
After a remount in October 2022, The project moved to Atlanta where it was co-produced by The Atlanta Shakespeare Company in tandem with Havoc Movement. The Atlanta run of the show sold nearly 96% of total available tickets for its duration in its first season, and 94% of total house in it's second-- shattering ticket, bar and kitchen sales at the venue. It received seven Suzi Bass Awards,nominations, founded to celebrate excellence in Atlanta's Professional Theatre Scene. Below is the promo for the Atlanta run.
NEWS
Benedetto has been busy at work with the Atlanta Shakespeare Company over the past few seasons, starring as Achilles in their Troilus and Cressida, as Duke Orsino in their Twelfth Night, as Athos in their Three Musketeers, and as Dracula in his original Dracula: The Failings of Men. He has set fight choreography for both their Romeo and Juliet of 2024 and 2025, and their recent Twelfth Night.
Outside of Atlanta, he has worked since 2021 on the revitalized Lost Colony in Manteo, NC, directed by Jeff Whiting of Open Jar Studios.
Benedetto's original theatrical adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, entiled Dracula: The Failings of Men has just wrapped its fourth consecutive season of production, and is in talks for a fifth. Its first two seasons were in produced by the Cherokee Historical Association and Havoc Movement, and ran all October in 2021 and 2022 at the beautiful outdoor Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, NC. in 2023 and 2024, it saw fresh co-production between Havoc Movement and the Atlanta Shakespeare Company at their space in downtown Atlanta, to sold out houses throughout it's two year run.
Benedetto is seeking work in regional theatres across the country and internationally. He can be reached at benedetto.michael.robinson@gmail.com
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