Robert Galinsky
Founder - Head Teacher

Robert has also appeared as an actor in: The Urban World Film Festival new screenwriters series directed by Joie Lee and on film he has completed roles in; Everyday People (HBO Films, Jim McKay), Brooklyn Babylon (Offline Productions, Marc Levin), Knives In My Throat (Abiola Abrams), and he is also in pre-production as the lead in the independent film "Hotel 5", produced by Kadamatree Films. Galinsky has both written and acted for TV in Big House Productions New York pilot of "Street Time", USA Networks "Gilbert Gottfried's Up All Night", and MTVs Rock the Vote. His work as a performer in Rock the Vote was nominated for a Gold World Award at The New York International Film Festival. He has sat on panels for the Annual NY Underground Film Festival at the Anthology Film Archives, Sony Music Spoken Word Symposium, Franklin Furnace Archives and at the International Performance Studies Conference in Wales UK. Galinsky's one man show "The Bench; a homeless love story" was performed at "The International Performance Studies Conference" in Aberswyth Wales UK and "The Bench" enjoyed runs in New York City at The Kitchen and also at The Red Room in lower Manhattan.

He is a founding member of the "Vamos a Sembrar" theatre garden in the Lower East Side of New York City. On July 11th, 2002, Galinsky was featured in a three round boxing match in David Leslie's highly anticipated Box Opera 3 at Saint Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn. See the Village Voice review. His theatre company, The Bodhi Tree Theatre Company, debuted its first show, "POW's: The Greatest Anti-War Show on Earth", to excellent reviews and much concern at St. Mark's Poetry Project on March 8th, 2002. As a digital artist, Galinsky is involved in many multi-media projects. Most recently as the Director of Technology at Arts International Inc. he developed and hosted the "World New Media Blender" events and online and offline video studio. His photographs and video of the Union Square WTC Memorial, are currently in film production and a sample shot can be seen at Here Is New York: number 2222 in the database. He is a Co-founder of the legendary (and now defunct) online television studio Pseudo.com where he also created the global Internet arts channels ChannelP.com and GoPoetry.com (both casualties of the Pseudo.com closure). His much talked about interview in the newly released book Digital Hustlers is now out in hardcover on Regan Books.

His writings on race, youth and America have appeared in: Coffeehouse Writings from the Web, Freedom Rag Magazine, Max Magazine, Street News and AI Magazine while he has been featured and quoted in: Billboard Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Post and High Times Magazine. Galinskys play Red Ridin in the Hood was featured at the Abrons Arts Center in The Henry Street Settlement NYC and connected audiences around the world through chat rooms sponsored by The Prodigy Online Network. Audiences who attended any of the nine shows received specialized software in their programs in order to get online after seeing the show to discuss the issues with Internet users worldwide. The Prodigy Online Poetry Interest Group, which Galinsky created and directed, was the nexus of the project. Red Ridin in the Hood was published in 1997 and is currently available through publisher Anne Elliott's Big Fat Press.

He has been developing and facilitating "Creativity in Crisis" workshops for all types of organizations, theatre companies, corporations and schools for the past 14 years. These film, improvisation and theatre-based workshops are facilitated to "hi-risk" students and corporate management alike. This work has taken him through over thirty five New York City public schools, into social clubs and half way houses for recovering addicts and psychiatric patients, lectures at Yale University Medical School and Lehman College Teachers College, across upper management of three major banks, throughout the NYC Public Libraries and on a four month tour of duty (with eight thousand truck builders) at a Mack Trucks factory in Macungie Pennsylvania.?

Galinsky is a 1998 recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts Grant through Franklin Furnace for theatre and spoken word. His spoken word performances have been recorded on CD and for television including the compilation CD Wild Words-Cups Magazine, Point Records Live in Bryant Park with Groove Collective and Friends, Afrofraktal Records Get Out of Your House, Miracle Legion's EP "Out to Play", URLs Overdose Department, and the critically acclaimed Giants in the Dirt from Git Dirt Records. On international television he has been a featured spoken word artist on Englands Channel 6 and on Germanys Channel Z. His spoken word and theatrical performances have been seen at NYC venues including: La Mama ETC, Nuyorican Poets Caf, Columbia University, The Gas Station, Art in the Anchorage, St. Marks Poetry Project, The Jazz Church, Langston Hughes House, Charas/El Bohio, La Mama La Galleria, ABC No Rio, Limelight, The Tunnel, Roseland and Barnes and Nobles.

In his writing, acting and directing Galinsky employs the frenetic tempo and technology of the Internet age, to create a unique and outrageous celebration of the theatrical. With themes taken from inner city youth, corporate America and fringe America, Galinsky produces a powerful portrayal of a fiscally and culturally diverse society, making him an important and emerging performer and multi-media artist.