Robert Maschio joined the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he was taught acting by Sanford Meisner, who developed the Meisner technique.
Robert Maschio: (about senior year in college) I started getting into musical theatre. I did Pippin, The Mystery of Edward Drewd, Anything Goes, and by the end of senior year I was totally gay.
Robert Maschio: I had so many miniature golf dates when I was growing up. Unfortunately every one of those miniature golf dates ended the same way: with me and my date under a windmill, on Hole 9.