{"id":41981,"date":"2015-10-21T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=41981"},"modified":"2015-10-21T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:04:48","slug":"robinson-pens-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/10\/robinson-pens-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinson Pens Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andy Robinson<\/strong>, best-known to Trek fans for his role of Garak in <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>, has written a memoir, <em>Stepping Into the Light: Sources of an Actor&#8217;s Craft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The actor explains in the book how his upbringing led him to acting and the effect of his life experience on his acting work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work and our lives are inseparable,&#8221; said Robinson. &#8220;There&#8217;s an incredibly powerful symbiotic relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson had a bleak childhood. &#8220;I wanted something other than the reality of a dead father, an alcoholic mother and this dangerous, dreary place called Hartford,&#8221; he said. Robinson discovered the movies, a &#8220;safe place where I could sit in the darkness and enjoy the crimes committed and the punishment justly administered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In school, Robinson got involved in a drama program and the actor &#8220;discovered there&#8217;s a real craft where I could learn to actively engage the imagination. It&#8217;s what I had been fumbling toward all my life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stepping Into the Light: Sources of an Actor&#8217;s Craft<\/em>, published by <em>Figueroa Press<\/em>, is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figueroapress.com\/product\/stepping-into-the-light-sources-of-an-actors-craft\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson still teaches and directs, and he will direct Brecht&#8217;s <em>The Threepenny Opera<\/em> next spring at the <em>USC School of Dramatic Arts<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Robinson, best-known to Trek fans for his role of Garak in Star Trek: Deep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,2413],"tags":[3425,8656],"class_list":["post-41981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-cast-crew","tag-robinson","tag-stepping-into-the-light-sources-of-an-actors-craft"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AndyRobinson102115.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/books\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Books<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41983,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981\/revisions\/41983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}