Bob Martin

Robert Martin (born December 8, 1962) is a television and musical theatre actor and writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Martin began his career as an actor and director at The Second City in Toronto in 1996. He served as Second City Toronto's artistic director from 2003–2004. In 2005, he made his Broadway debut starring as “Man in Chair” in the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, which he co-wrote with Don McKellar (book), and Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (music and lyrics). He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical with Don McKellar. He reprised his role in London's West End production of The Drowsy Chaperone, for which he received an Olivier nomination. Martin then kicked off the show's North American tour on its first stop in Toronto. Martin wrote the book for the musical Minsky's, which premiered at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles in 2009. He returned to Broadway as co-bookwriter of Elf with Thomas Meehan, lyrics by Chad Beguelin and music by Matthew Sklar. Elf had two limited engagements for the holiday seasons of 2010 and 2012. Martin wrote the book for a musical adaptation of the 1973 film The Sting, with music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Greg Kotis, and direction by John Rando, who had previously collaborated on Urinetown. Additional music and lyrics were provided by the show's star Harry Connick, Jr. The Sting premiered at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. He collaborated with Beguelin and Sklar again for Half Time at Paper Mill Playhouse, which had premiered in Chicago in 2015 under the title Gotta Dance. Martin reunited once more with the team of Sklar, Beguelin, and director Casey Nicholaw on The Prom which has its world-premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in 2016. The Prom opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on November 11, 2018. The Prom received seven Tony nominations including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical for Martin and Beguelin. In 2020, Netflix released a film adaptation of The Prom, which was directed by Ryan Murphy and starred Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells, and Keegan-Michael Key. Martin is currently writing the book for a musical adaptation of The Princess Bride with Rick Elice, a sequel to The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical adaptation of Night at the Museum with Shawn Levy, and an adaptation of Millions with a score by Adam Guettel. Martin co-created the award-winning series Slings & Arrows (TMN/Sundance), a TV show about a Canadian theatre company struggling to survive while a crazy genius director haunted by his dead mentor helps the actors find authenticity in their acting. Martin also served as a writer (alongside fellow writers and co-creators Susan Coyne and Mark McKinney) and a creative producer. Martin played the role of Terry in two episodes. His first foray into writing for television was for the CBC Television series The Industry (formerly titled Made in Canada), in which he also acted. Martin was also a writer of and starred in the Canadian television sitcom Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays, which had its debut on CBC Television in fall 2011. ... Source: Article "Bob Martin (comedian)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays

Michael, a neurotic young man, sees his therapist David twice a week. David views Michael as an ideal guinea pig for the experimental psychiatric techniques he hopes will turn him into a bestselling pop psychology writer.

Release Date2011-09-14

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Dr. David Storper

Episode Count[ 12 ]

Vote Count1

Puppets Who Kill

Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.

Release Date2002-10-04

Charactersd Cuddles

Episode Count53

Vote Count6

Once a Thief

Once a Thief is a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.

Release Date1996-09-29

Charactersd Neville

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

All American: Homecoming

Follow the journeys of Simone Hicks, a tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills, and elite baseball player Damon Sims from Chicago, as they navigate life at the prestigious HBCU Bringston University.

Release Date2022-02-21

Charactersd Orlando 'Lando' Johnson

Episode Count1

Vote Count59

Michael: Every Day

Every Day picks up five years after Micheal: Tuesdays & Thursdays, with Michael well established in his new city, and David struggling to continue his practice.

Release Date2017-01-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Dr. David Storper

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Last Night

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Release Date1998-10-23

Charactersd T.V. Newscaster

Vote Count153

Childstar

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

Release Date2004-09-10

Charactersd Mr. Budge

Vote Count11

Coastlines

An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.

Release Date2002-01-15

Charactersd Preacher

Vote Count15

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

A group of young adults struggle to run the biggest cattle ranch in the world amidst World War II.

Release Date1998-01-04

Charactersd Minister

Vote Count6

Burnt Toast

An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television opera comprised of a series of eight comic operas each depicting a different stage of romantic love. The relationships depicted run the gamut: from the passionate to the fantasized, the bored and of course the dead relationship, each as recognizable as the last.

Release Date2005-10-01

Charactersd Man

The High Price of Passion

A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.

Release Date1986-10-29

Charactersd Student #2

Vote Count2

Club Land

A father and son work together as agents.

Release Date2001-04-08

Charactersd Guy Valmont

Hide and Seek

In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.

Release Date1984-07-01

Charactersd Gregory

Tony Awards

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

Release Date1956-04-01

Charactersd Self - Winner/Nominee/Performer

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

La Chance aux chansons

Release Date1984-03-26

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Twitch City

Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent.

Release Date1998-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Slings & Arrows

This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.

Release Date2003-11-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count18

Vote Count19

The Prom

After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.

Release Date2020-12-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count688

American Classic

American Classic

Broadway star and notorious narcissist Richard Bean suffers a spectacular public meltdown and returns to his hometown and the family-run theater where he first became aware of his own brilliance. When he arrives, he is shocked to discover that his father, the former artistic director, has lost a step and that the once-respected theater, now run by his brother Jon and his wife (now the town's mayor). has become, by necessity, a low-rent dinner theater serving roast beef and murder mysteries. He decides to save the town, the theater and the world by presenting a great American classic on the dinner theater stage, directed by and starring, of course, Richard Bean.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count1

Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas

Santa narrates the story of Buddy's travels to New York City to meet the father he never knew he had. Along the way his unrelenting cheer transforms the lives of everyone he meets and opens his father's eyes to the magic of Christmas.

Release Date2014-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count33

Elf: The Musical

West End star Ben Forster takes the role Will Ferrell made famous on the silver screen in this toe-tapping stage adaptation of the 2003 festive comedy. Staged at the Lowry in Salford, this family-friendly musical tells the story of Buddy, a young orphan child who crawls into Father Christmas's bag of gifts one year, and is accidentally whisked away to the North Pole, where the nonplussed elves raise him as one of their own. Years later, once Buddy has grown to adulthood, he returns to New York City to find his birth father and help the people of the Big Apple rediscover the true meaning of Christmas. Also starring Liz McClarnon, Louis Emerick, Joe McGann and Jessica Martin.

Release Date2017-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobMusical

Vote Count2

Sound & Fury: Film

Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.

Release Date2010-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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