Bob Jaffe

Bob Jaffe is an actor-director based in Providence, Rhode Island and New York City. Most recently, he is performing a one-man show by writer-director David Eliet, called But for the Grace...(a commission from the Rhode Island food bank), which premiered to standing ovations at Trinity Repertory Company and just finished a run at the New York International Fringe Festival. He is now in rehearsal for the play Bug at the Providence Black Repertory Company. Other recent performances include the Providence Black Repertory’s World Premiere of Black Maria by Kevin Young, Amadeus for the Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Bacchae for the Spingold Theatre Company, and The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf's Major Barbara at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York. Bob originated …and then you go on. An Anthology of the Works of Samuel Beckett at Perishable Theatre, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Off-Broadway. He played Charlie Gueno in the Showtime original series Brotherhood. Bob directed the world premiere of William S. Yellow Robe Jr.’s Better-n-Indians, the NY premiere of Were You There When the Sugar Beets Got Married? commissioned by the violinist Midori, with text and illustrations by Maurice Sendak and music by Pierre Jalbert, Grammy Award Winner Bill Harley’s Get Lost: Rules for Travelers, Rose Weaver’s Menopause Mama, and, most recently, Kenny Carnes’ Pieces of War, now touring the U.S. He is an affiliated artist at the Providence Black Repertory Company and a board member of Perishable Theatre and the Ensemble Studio Theatre, all of which focus upon the development of new works for the stage.

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