Stagecraft by Robert Blumenfeld

Stagecraft by Robert Blumenfeld

Robert Blumenfeld lives and works as an actor, dialect coach, and writer in New York City, and is a longtime member of Equity, and SAG-AFTRA. He is the author of fourteen books, including Accents: A Manual for Actors (1998; Revised and Expanded Edition, 2002), published by Limelight Editions; and his first novel, The Count of Sainte-Hü¾Ž–”¼lü¾Ž†”¼ne, or The Lure of Infamy: A Novel of the Bourbon Restoration. He has recorded four hundred audiobooks, most of them for Talking Books at the American Foundation for the Blind. Robert has performed in numerous regional and New York theaters. He created the roles of the Marquis of Queensberry and two prosecuting attorneys in Moisü¾Ž–”¼s Kaufman's Off-Broadway hit play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and was also the production's dialect coach, a job that he did as well for the Broadway musicals, Saturday Night Fever and The Scarlet Pimpernel (third version and national tour). He holds a BA in French from Rutgers University and an MA from Columbia University in French language and literature. Mr. Blumenfeld speaks French, German, and Italian fluently, and has smatterings of Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish.