10 Questions with 10 Actors by Barbara Janice Kielhofer
Actor #3: Rob Manning Jr.
1. What made you realize you wanted be an actor? I did a play and I got to kiss a cute girl and I didn’t throw up on her. 2. What makes someone a New Yorker? Patience and good walking shoes. 3. If you weren’t an actor what would be your ideal occupation? Civil Rights Attorney 4. Who (or what) is your mortal enemy? Roaches. The flying ones. 5. Movies or theatre? Equal merit for me. 6. Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Subway rat. I see rodenticide signs everywhere and yet they persevere. 7. What’s your favorite vice? A Guinness 8. What do you hate most about living in New York? The winter months.9. If age, type, or gender were no issue what would your dream role be? My mom. 10. If you could give one piece of advice to yourself at the age of 12, what would it be? Invest your money.
You can catch Rob in Apothecary Theatre’s latest production How I Learned To Become A Superhero, playing April 4 – April 27 at T. Schreiber Studio’s Gloria Maddox Theatre.
For more information go to www.apothecarytheatrecompany.org
