Robert Tsonos is originally from Montreal but currently living and working in eastern Asia;Tokyo and Hong Kong. His most recent play The Hum was recently awarded an honorable mention in The Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition. William & James was performed at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille in 2003 and has received staged readings in Melbourne, Australia and in Washington D.C. In 2006 it was produced by Montreal’s Village Scene Productions and was performed 42 times in English and French during the Out Games, Diverscité, and 3rd edition of the Harvest festival where it received a Cornucopia award for Best Original Script. In 2007 it was performed in Ottawa at the Civic Center. Other writing credits include the CBC Radio Drama Ice Age, Running: three short plays at the Summer Works Festival, I Am Not The One as part of Buddies in Bad Times Ante Chamber Series, and the short film Coffee Dogs. Robert’s children’s play, Sharnoozle! will be performed this April in Tokyo.
Robert has also spent the past 16 years as an actor and director. In Tokyo Robert directed “Vigil”, “The Drawer Boy”, and “For The Pleasure Of Seeing Her Again” at the Canadian Embassy Theatre in Tokyo, “A Doll’s House” and “Proof” for The Tokyo International Players and “The Emperor’s New Clothes” for Tokyo Theatre For Children. Robert’s Canadian directing credits include two new Canadian plays: “We Are Many” and “The Czar of Cinnamon” as well as Fassbinder’s “Blood on the Cat’s Neck” in an International Theatre Festival in Toronto.
Acting credits include “True West” (Akasaka Playbox), “The Qualities of Zero”, “Ines de Castro”, “Total Body Washout”, and “Romeo & Rosaline”(all at Tarragon Theatre’s Extra Space), “Othello” (Persephone Theatre), “Three Days of Rain” (Sudbury Theatre Centre), and “The Gray Zone” (Poor Alex Theatre). Robert has also been seen in numerous television shows and T.V. commercials in Canada and Japan.