Robert Wood Frank

About

Robert Wood Frank is a Chicago based actor, director, and theatre creator. He’s a graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program, where he was invested in him a love of the craft, explored through clear language, truthful behavior, and physically embodied performance. Robert has studied at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, and with the Guthrie Theatre, as well as abroad at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare’s Globe in London, all of which he considers fundamental to the actor, performer, and person he has become today. 

Recently

He recently worked with the University of Minnesota BFA as an assistant director on Jez Butterworth’s wonderful epic, The Ferryman, at Park Square Theatre. He was proud to work with the wildly talented senior class of 2025.

He recently played Jimmy in Citadel Theatre's delightful production of Miracle on South Division Street by Tom Dudzick.  

Testimonials

"Crisp, precise, and thoughtful...performing with interesting and specific physicality." -Cherry and Spoon for Harold Pinter's The Dumbwaiter

"Jimmy... is hilariously portrayed with such lifelike accuracy by Robert Wood Frank that it is astonishing to know that he is a recent transplant to Chicago. Every word and movement by him on stage oozes original Chicagoan. He's like a young Mike Royko, thought provoking and bringing the laughs." -Talkin Broadway for Tom Dudzick's Miracle on South Division Street

"The physical antics of Robert Wood Frank as hapless brother Jimmy steal the show." -Splash Magazine for Tom Dudzick's Miracle on South Division Street