My Journey of artistic reinvention – from actor to librarian to writer by Robert Bockstael – Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm (EDT).

I’ll be talking about my first several decades as an actor – from theatre to film and television – and the forces that compelled me to change my career a year before my 50th birthday. I’ll touch on how and why I then returned to school to pursue Library Studies which ultimately led to me managing my own branch library in the Near North. Then, several years later, how I answered the siren call, enticing me to embark on a novel while, at the same time, rediscovering my roots in the live theatre after twenty years away. And, if time allows, I may mention how I became an acting instructor and that I am now in the midst of transitioning into another series of artistic endeavours while writing my next two books.

Robert Bockstael has written for theater, television, and film, and his short fiction appears in literary magazines across North America. Willow’s Run is his debut novel. His next book, She Carried the Sea, is set in Nova Scotia, Canada.

An award-winning actor with a forty-year career, Robert Bockstael has played lead roles in a multitude of television series and films, as well as being a prolific cartoon voice actor, narrator, and stage actor. He is a teacher and a sought after private acting coach and has worked as a librarian in a small, rural library. Bockstael lives in Ottawa, Canada. Please visit his website at robertbockstael.com and find his Author Page on Facebook and Instagram. His list of film and television credits can be found on IMDb.