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ROBERT WEINAPPLE is a native New Yorker who has performed at many of the West Coast's best theatres, including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, The Marsh, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, and TheatreWorks. In 1996, Robert was awarded the Dean Goodman Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Principal Performance as Watty Watkins in Lady Be Good with 42nd Street Moon. Screen credits include principal roles in the independent features Klee-vies Peterbelt with Fazi / Falzone Productions, Tragos with Antero Alli and Vertical Pool, Heart of the Possible, as well as a guest appearance on the television show Nash Bridges.

On the directing front, Robert's direction of the world premiere adaptation of Chekhov's short story The Duel for Central Works received critical acclaim, as did his Twelfth Night for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 2002. His Tempest and Taming of the Shrew for the S.F. Shakespeare Festival played to over 50,000 students in more than 60 cities throughout California, followed by an expanded version with a live band and all original music at San Francisco's Gershwin Theatre. Other directing credits include The Quick-Change Room with TheatreFirst, Empty Places with Foothill Theatre Company, UPS and The Debating Society with the Playwright's Lab, and 2x4 Play at The Marsh in San Francisco. He also worked as Assistant Director to Richard Seyd on Beauty Queen of Leenane at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and as Associate Director for the long running hit Noises Off at the Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco.

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In addition to his popular acting classes in San Francisco at Seydways Acting Studio, Robert teaches opera students at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and directs and teaches youth at various schools throughout the Bay Area. He also works with orchestras around the country hosting children's concerts entitled Where In The World of Music is Carmen Sandiego? and regularly appears with the Marin Symphony dressed as a giant chicken named Ollie Opus.