A short stint as Mike TeeVee in the Forest Road Elementary School’s production of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ planted a seed for the love of the stage in Robert’s soul that has been blooming for nearly 30 years. He studied acting in college, earning a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Humboldt State University in Northern California, and an M.F.A. in Acting from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.

Rob has performed in over 60 productions in many diverse roles: from a sea creature (Seascape) to a Count (Countess of Sligo); from a troll (Peer Gynt) to the ghost of John Barrymore (I Hate Hamlet); from an 80 year old grandmother (Respectable Boarding House) to the back end of a horse (Puss in Boots)! He narrated Benjamin Britton’s The Company of Heaven for First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue. He has choreographed sword fights for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and La Mirada Civic Theatre and is the Talking Moose in the three-man troupe Deaf Moose Theatre. He performed for three years with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and has appeared on the stages of the Cleveland Play House, Tacoma Actors Guild, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Bellevue Civic Theatre and Hollywood Actor’s Theatre among others, and will soon be appearing in Village Theatre’s production of Shadowlands.

Other interests include juggling, dinosaurs and trying to learn French and the guitar.

He lives in Mukilteo with his wife (of 21 years!), Laurie and daughters Sheena and Halley.

Robert Alan Barnett

Actor 

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“There was never yet an uninteresting life.  Such a thing is an impossibility.  Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
 

--Mark Twain