BIO

Robert Montano was raised in Hempstead, LI, close enough to Belmont Park Racetrack where he had his first career as a professional racehorse jockey.  However, by age 20, Mother Nature caught up to him and outgrew his silks. Smitten by the film Saturday Night Fever, Robert traded his jockey boots for ballet slippers and applied to Adelphi Universities dance department without any prior training. He was accepted and offered a full scholarship. One week shy of graduating he booked his first gig in, “Cats.”

​​His career took off jumping from one show to the next, working with great directors and choreographers such as Hal Prince, Rob Marshall, and Jerome Robbins.  He has also 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 in On The Town, directed by the innovative George C. Wolfe.

​​But he couldn’t contain his creative scope to only musical theatre so he ventured into plays, film, and television.

​​He 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.

​​In television: he’s guest starred in Evil, The Prodigal Son, Showtime's, City On A Hill, NCIS: New Orleans, Elementary, Search Party, Sex In The City, CSI: Miami, Bull, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, and HBO’s film Undefeated, directed by John Leguizamo.

​​Film: He appeared in “Shame” with Michael Fassbender. Played opposite Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix in “The Yards.” Partnered Catherine Zeta - Jones in, “Chicago.” Among other notable work in Center Stage, It Runs in The Family, and Passionada.

He was nominated for a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award and won an ACOR award for his Solo Performance of SMALL which was produced off-Broadway at 59E59 Theater after a successful run at Penguin Rep.  SMALL will be performed at George Street Theater in New Jersey and The Old Globe Theater in San Diego in 2025.

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