Robert Cicchini has appeared in starring, co-starring, or supporting roles in over 25 feature films. He has had the priviledge to work with some of the greatest directors and actors of our time. Francis Copolla, Spike Lee, Paul Mazurski, Mike Nichols, Paul Schrader, John Frankenhiemer, Steven Spielberg, Al Pacino, John Travolta, Donald Sutherland, Emma Thompson, Blythe Danner, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Annette Bening, and Alec Baldwin are among the many outstanding directors and performers with whom Robert has acted.
Robert's extensive television credits include over fifty guest-starring or recurring performances on television series programs and he has worked with many of the most successful television producers of our day, including Stephen Bochco (NYPD BLUE), Dick Wolf (LAW AND ORDER), David Chase (THE SOPRANOS), and Alan Ball (SIX FEET UNDER), to name just a few. He has worked on many of the most recognized tv shows of the recent past, such as CSI, CSI NY, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, NCIS, 24, THE CLOSER, WITHOUT A TRACE, and COLDCASE, as well as the previously mentioned programs, to name a few.
Robert is also an accomplished and award-winning stage actor with performances in over seventyfive stage plays to his credit. He has performed on stages from New York to Los Angeles and in many venues around the United States and abroad.
Robert has several directing credits as well, including stage productions of Antigone, The Heiress, Getting Out, The Maids, The Lower Depths, and several premieres of new plays.
He is a long-time Associate Artist with Circus Theatricals, a Los Angeles based theater company which has produced dozens of new and classic plays since it's Los Angeles inception in 1995, three of which have been moved for productions in New York City over the last ten years.
Robert teaches an acting class through Circus Theatricals' Actor Training Program and also works as a private acting coach.
Director of Photography Bruce Schermer divides his time between assignments in Hollywood and Michigan. He shot most of Michael Moore's breakthrough documentary, Roger & Me as well as Sundance Grand Prize winner, Chameleon Street. Schermer has worked with such directors as Richard Rush and Dennis Hopper.
Producer and co-screenwriter Roger Rapoport published Steven Faulkner's book Waterwalk to great acclaim. With Richard Harris he has adapted the story and teamed up with leading regional theaters chains to release the film. Rapoport is the author, co-author or editor of 18 books including the bestselling I Should Have Stayed Home trouble travel series which has sold more than 300,000 copies and been widely translated around the world. His book, Citizen Moore: The Making of an American Iconoclast, is published in the United States, Great Britain and France. A veteran travel journalist. his work has appeared in such newspapers as the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Miami Herald. Rapoport has won numerous awards for his travel writing and his hundreds of magazine articles have appeared in such publications as Esquire, The Atlantic and Harper's. He has appeared before hundreds of audiences on the travel lecture circuit across the country. He lives in Muskegon, Michigan.
Production Schedule
Waterwalk will be filmed on location in August and September for release in spring 2011.
Production Consultants
Robert Goodrich, President, Goodrich Quality Theaters
Kelly Owens, Marketing Director, Goodrich Quality Theaters
Michael Ogradowski, Events Manager, Marcus Theaters
Ron Van Timmerman, executive vice-president, Loeks Theaters
Tim Evans, Director Steppenwolf Film
James McConnell, Special Projects Coordinator, Michigan Council for History Education
Dr. Sean O'Neil, History Department, Grand Valley State University
Rochelle Stackhouse, Consultant
