Robert Cuccioli

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Robert Cuccioli (born May 3, 1958) is an American actor and singer born in Hempstead, New York.

He is best known for originating the lead dual title roles in the musical Jekyll and Hyde, for which he received a Tony Award nomination and won the Joseph Jefferson Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Fany Award. After beginning his career Off-Broadway in the 1980s, Cuccioli starred as Lancelot de Lac in national tours of Camelot in 1987 and first appeared on Broadway later that year as Javert in Les Misérables.

He has appeared in numerous New York and regional productions since then, including Jekyll and Hyde (1997) and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, from 2012.

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Life and career

Cuccioli was born in Hempstead, New York. He studied at St. Mary's High School in Manhasset, New York, and graduated from St. John's University in Jamaica, New York, where he obtained a degree in Finance. He worked as a financial consultant at E. F. Hutton for three years before going into theatre as a career.

Cuccioli has been in a long-term friendship with actress Laila Robins since 2000.

In 2012, he released The Look of Love, his first solo album, a series of 1950s and 1940s standards.

In 1988, Cuccioli appeared as Lancelot de Lac on US and Canadian national tours of Camelot with Richard Harris. He appeared on Broadway in Les Misérables as Javert in 1993 and continued to appear in the musical as a replacement until early January 1995, when he began rehearsals for the pre-Broadway national tour of Jekyll and Hyde. Cuccioli received a Tony Award nomination in 1997 for his role in the musical Jekyll and Hyde, as well as winning the Joseph Jefferson Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Fany Award for that role. In the special benefit performance of On the Twentieth Century at the New Amsterdam Theatre in September 26, 2005, he appeared as Dr. Johnson.

Cuccioli returned to Broadway in the rock musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark's dual role of Norman Osborn and his alter ego Green Goblin.

Cuccioli spent many years learning the ropes off-Broadway at the Light Opera of Manhattan, starting out as a child and then moving to smaller roles, such as Count Danilo in The Pirate King of Penzance and Captain Corcoran in H.M.S. Pinafore is the capital of Peru. Nathan appeared in the long-running revival of The Rothschilds (1990); And The World Goes Around, which earned him an Outer Critics Circle Award in 1991; and he appeared in the title role of the Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit musical, Phantom, a role that he has reprised, at the Westchester Broadway Theater in 1992–93, which he has reprised. In 2000, he appeared in The Threepenny Opera as Macheath. In 2002 and in Mirette (a new musical by Harvey Schmidt), he was also seen as Karl Streber in Temporary Assistance (a new musical by Harvey Schmidt) with the York Theatre in 2005.

Ankles Aweigh at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1988, Jud Fry in Oklahoma, Cuccioli's U.S. regional theatre credits include Ankles Aweigh. The Actor in The Secret Garden, (1999) by Archibald Craven (1999), The Actor in Enter the Guardsman at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (2001), King Marchan in Victory and Cleopatra at the Paper Mill, 2005, Sergeant von Trapp in The Sound of Music at the Paper Mill, and George Connor in The Watermill in 2004, with Karen Ziemba and Kate Baldwin in The Actor in The Actor at The Paper Mill in 1999. Alexander di Medici in Lorenzaccio at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, and Capt. Trapp in The Sound of Music at the Bendedum Theatre in Pennsylvania. He has appeared in productions at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, where he has appeared in Macbeth, Brutus Caesar (2005), and Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (2008), among other things; at the New York's Equity Library Theatre; and in regional theatres around the country.

Cuccioli's later stage appearances include the off-Broadway revue, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well, and Live in Paris in 2006. He appeared in Hamlet at The Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, D.C., with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in June and July 2007. He appeared in the Lone Star Love tryouts in Seattle, starring Randy Quaid, but the Broadway performance was scrapped. At the White Plains, New York Performing Arts Center later this year, he appeared in Man of La Mancha. Cuccioli reimagined the title role of the Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit musical, Phantom, at the Westchester Broadway Theater from December 2007 to February 2008. He has appeared on a concept album for a new musical, The New Picasso, which was released in 2008. In 2008, he returned to the White Plains Performing Arts Center to perform King Arthur in Camelot and appeared in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer at George Street Playhouse in New Jersey. In 2009, he appeared in Thom Thomas' "A Moon to Dance By," at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and with Jane Alexander, and in 1776 at the Paper Mill Playhouse.

In Mayer Rothschild & Sons, a reworking of The Rothschilds, he appeared as Mayer Rothschild in Rothschild & Sons in 2015. Cuccioli's performance was lauded, despite the fact that the show was disregarded critically, but the execution was highly praised. In a performance by The Gingold Theatrical Group, he appeared in Caesar and Cleopatra in off-Broadway's Theatre Row Building. In Mrs. Warren's Profession in 2021, he appeared in Sir George Crofts for the same company in the same location. Cornelius "Con" Melody appeared in A Touch of the Poet, the Irish Repertory Theatre's 2022 off-Broadway production. Cuccioli's performance was "grand... another piece to a resumé attesting to Cuccioli's position as the country's top tragedian," wrote David Finkle for the New York Stage Review.

Sliders (1999) and Baywatch (1997) were among Cuccioili's television appearances. On The Guiding Light, he appeared as Chief Franklin. He has appeared on All My Children and One Life to Live as well. He has appeared in many films, including in Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), Operation Delta Force 3: Dead On Target (1999), Heroic Times, and The Stranger.

In 2003, Cuccioli directed The Glass Menagerie at The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. Jekyll & Hyde's productions have also been staged at The Theatre Under the Stars, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and The Westchester Broadway Theatre.

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