Bio

Rob Biesenbach is a Chicago-based actor and writer.

Since starting his acting career in the fall of 2002, Rob has performed in more than 40 stage productions, two dozen commercials and industrial videos, a dozen print campaigns and several films. He has worked with Bailiwick Repertory Company, the Side Project, Steep Theatre Company and the Silk Road Theatre Project, among others.

On camera, he appeared in a commercial spot for Assurant Health that aired nationally on cable stations such as CNN, a sponsorship ad for Wolf Kitchen/Sub-zero that ran nationwide on the PBS show "America's Test Kitchen," along with a handful of regional and local commercials. He has also acted in industrial videos for Kraft Foods, Miller Brewing Company, Nintendo, Wal-Mart and others. If you're very attentive, you can catch his 10 seconds of screen time as a featured background player with Nicolas Cage in The Weather Man.

As a writer, he wrote a collection of one-act plays, The One-Eyed Cat & Other Tales of Need, which was directed by Rob Chambers and ran at Donny's Skybox Theater at Second City in the fall of 2005. The Chicago Reader called the plays "engaging" and "admirably honest." Rob also wrote a sketch show, There's No "I" in Improv, which ran in Donny's Skybox in the Summer of 2004 and was directed by Joe Janes. The Reader said it was "brainier than most late-night fare." He also served as producer for both shows.

Rob has had other plays produced at Speaking Ring Theatre (full production) and Chicago Dramatists (staged reading). One of his newest plays recently won an artistic merit award during a reading of short plays by the Women's Theatre Alliance. You can read many of his works here.

Rob studied acting, improvisation and writing at Second City Training Center, Profiles Theatre, and in various workshops and individual coaching sessions.

You can watch samples of his work here and here (click on "Experience Answers" and wait for intro to finish) , access his resume, and keep up with his daily struggles as an actor by reading his blog.