Robert Stevens Wayne, a native of Atlanta Georgia, began his acting career in the local theaters as a young child and has never stopped working in the arts. He received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Georgia and studied two summers at the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. A three-time Atlanta Suzi Bass Award nominee, he has performed in over seventy plays, operas, and musicals in theaters throughout the southeast, including Actor...
Robert Stevens Wayne, a native of Atlanta Georgia, began his acting career in the local theaters as a young child and has never stopped working in the arts. He received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Georgia and studied two summers at the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. A three-time Atlanta Suzi Bass Award nominee, he has performed in over seventy plays, operas, and musicals in theaters throughout the southeast, including Actor's Express, Serenbe Playhouse, Theatrical Outfit, the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, Shakespeare Tavern, Georgia Ensemble, and Theatre of the Stars. Favorite roles include Herr Schultz in Serenbe Playhouse's Cabaret for which he received the 2018 Suzi Bass award for best supporting actor and Isadore Straus in Serenbe Playhouse's nationally acclaimed outdoor production of Titanic, the adult men in the Actor's Express Suzi-award-wining production of Spring Awakening, and the Georgia Ensemble Theatre's Suzi-award-wining production of The Elephant Man.
He first worked in film, and TV in 1981, when he appeared in the television series Breaking Away, with Shaun Cassidy and Jackie Earle Haley, and the film The Bear (the Bear Bryant story with Gary Busey) before stepping back to pursue a legal career. In 2016, he resumed his TV/film career joining Privilege Talent Agency when he was cast in Tyler Perry's series, The Haves and Have Nots, and later in Perry's A Jazzman's Blues. He has recently appeared in the film, The Great Lillian Hall (HBO/MAX), directed by Michael Cristofer, and in the pilot episode of the new Peacock series Hysteria!, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
Robert Stevens Wayne, a native of Atlanta Georgia, began his acting career in the local theaters as a young child and has never stopped working in the arts. He received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Georgia and studied two summers at the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. A three-time Atlanta Suzi Bass Award nominee, he has performed in over seventy plays, operas, and musicals in theaters throughout the southeast, including Actor's Express, Serenbe Playhouse, Theatrical Outfit, the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, Shakespeare Tavern, Georgia Ensemble, and Theatre of the Stars. Favorite roles include Herr Schultz in Serenbe Playhouse's Cabaret for which he received the 2018 Suzi Bass award for best supporting actor and Isadore Straus in Serenbe Playhouse's nationally acclaimed outdoor production of Titanic, the adult men in the Actor's Express Suzi-award-wining production of Spring Awakening, and the Georgia Ensemble Theatre's Suzi-award-wining production of The Elephant Man.
He first worked in film, and TV in 1981, when he appeared in the television series Breaking Away, with Shaun Cassidy and Jackie Earle Haley, and the film The Bear (the Bear Bryant story with Gary Busey) before stepping back to pursue a legal career. In 2016, he resumed his TV/film career joining Privilege Talent Agency when he was cast in Tyler Perry's series, The Haves and Have Nots, and later in Perry's A Jazzman's Blues. He has recently appeared in the film, The Great Lillian Hall (HBO/MAX), directed by Michael Cristofer, and in the pilot episode of the new Peacock series Hysteria!, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
