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ESC's Darryl Maximilian Robinson Shares His Drake In LOITER SQUAD Video
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ESC'S DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON SHARES NOTES AND VIDEO OF HIS 2012 NATIONAL TELEVISION DEBUT WITH A THE CAMEO ROLE OF DRAKE ON ADULT SWIM'S "LOITER SQUAD," EPISODE 1.7!
HIS NAME WAS DRAKE!
Chicago-born and Los Angeles-experienced stage performer and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson is not noted for his forays into rap music or hip-hop culture. Indeed, an experienced, classically-trained, Shakespearean actor and musical theatre vet ( examples of which can be found at his You Tube channel ), providing a comedic portrayal of one of the world's most popular rappers would be one of the farthest things from his mind as a role choice. But 14 years ago, Mr. Robinson's mind was changed.
Chicago and Los Angeles theatre acolytes are far more familiar with Darryl Maximilian Robinson in the 1980s performing his critically-praised role of Sir Richard Drury Kemp-Kean in his original one-man show of Shakespeare and time-travel comedy 'A Bit of the Bard' ( at such venues the Windy City's Red Lion Pub and Wisconsin's Bristol Renaissance Faire ) or for his performance as Sam Semela in his Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago revival staging of South African playwright Athol Fugard's 'Master Harold And The Boys' at the much-missed Heartland Cafe Studio Theatre in Rogers Park ( for which he received both a 1997 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award for Outstanding Actor In A Principal Role In A Play and a 1997 Chicago Black Theatre Alliance Award nomination as Best Leading Actor In A Play ) or for his noted portrayal of the dual roles of The Chairman Mr. William Cartwright and The Mayor Thomas Sapsea in the 2018 Saint Sebastian Players of Chicago revival of Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning Best Musical Whodunit 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' at the more than a century old St. Bonaventure Church ( for which he received a 2019 BroadwayWorld Chicago Award nomination for Best Performer In A Musical or Revue - Resident Non-Equity ) or his well-received portrayal of the debonair, but aging leading man Ernest in Tad Mosel's classic one-act of Life In The Theatre 'Impromptu' presented as part of a bill of works entitled 'Just 4 Fun' at North Hollywood, California's Lincoln Stegman Theatre ( for which Mr. Robinson won a 2015 / 2016 Los Angeles ELATE Season Ticket Holder Award nomination as Best Actor ).
Ever being in a professional acting situation where ( as a older performer ) he would be asked to mimic or lampoon a cultural icon was not something The Founder, Artistic Director and Producer of both The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project Darryl Maximilian Robinson expected. But the Hollywood professional acting community is quite different from the one Mr. Robinson trained in and has come to know and work in. And "when papa needs a new pair of shoes," sometimes an actor simply takes the work that's offered. Which is how on Wednesday December 7, 2011, Darryl Maximilian Robinson found himself in a small green-screen studio space in Burbank, CA., in front of a tv director and a rap group calling itself "The Odd Future" being specifically instructed on how to make fun of the acclaimed and popular rapper Drake for an upcoming episode of a new live-action / animated comedy series that would air on Adult Swim of The Cartoon Network called 'Loiter Squad.'
And after that recorded "green screen" session veteran and award-winning Chicago And Los Angeles stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson made his national television debut On May 6, 2012 in Adult Swim's "Loiter Squad," Episode 1.7 with a comedic cameo appearance as Drake!
Provided are photos, articles and video links related to that experience.
And yes. A Fan Copy of Darryl Maximilian Robinson as Drake is available for viewing on You Tube.
https://youtu.be/q8vGVvJpyWQ?si=zl4Mwxyok3q_ODQ8
https://youtu.be/YDhFv4_9QLs?si=0HqYLlM0hbFOOxu2