Rob Asaro is comedian, actor, and writer, who lives in New York City and Los Angeles. He previously completed the ambitious project short NY/LA, which was a great time but his car broke down on the way back to New York in Council Bluffs Iowa, a town that made Omaha look like “big city fun.”
His play based on his ten-episode series Lost Again was staged at the Tank Theater in the fall of 2022. “Lost Again,” was a finalist in the Austin Film Festival pitch competition. Ro also produced, wrote and was part of 16-person ensemble piece “Night at the Diner” also at the Tank Theater in 2023.
Rob has toured with live shows across the country in such cities as New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Denver, DC, Montreal, LA and lesser cities such as Philadelphia and Cleveland. He also once did a show in Boston where he dressed up and played Osama Bin Laden. It was not well received. At All.
In addition to writing screenplays, stage plays, and pilots, he’s produced, written and starred in several short films and has been a member of sketch troupes such as “The Captains of Industry,” and “Chocolate Cake City.” His film and stage work has been officially selected for festivals across the country.
Elsewhere, sketches have been broadcast on MTVu and heard on SiriusXM Radio. He also teaches comedy, screenwriting and improvisation for Montclair Film.
A graduate of Emerson College, he’s played at clubs and theaters such as the People’s Improv Theater, Caroline’s, and Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He has studied extensively with the UCB Theater, Second City, Ivana Chubbuck, The Barrow Group, & the Groundlings in Los Angeles, as well as Strasberg Studios, HB Studios, and the Magnet Theater in New York, because why see Europe when you can perform scenes from an obscure play that’s a metaphor for the collapse of western civilization?
Rob has also produced, starred in, and wrote two webseries, including: “Yellow Brick Hell” (YellowBrickHell.com) which splitsider.com encouraged readers to watch due to its ” pessimism, passion, and patience.” He also co-produced a series called Serious Business which was really just a long-con so he can lash out at supposed celebrity, Jim Belushi.
When he’s not writing bios which seem to try too hard, he messes with scam callers for his own amusement.
