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On August 3rd, 2013 Robert Neal Marshall suffered the “Widow Maker” heart attack and was clinically dead for 1 1/2 minutes. As he was remarkably in an Ambulance at the time he went into V-Fib, paramedics were able to shock his heart causing him to flatline. By miracle, they brought him back using CPR.  Join Robert as he shares his lifelong journey for understanding in this new autobiographical play currently in development for a National Tour.

If you’ve ever questioned if Life after Death or a connection with something greater than “here” and “now” is real, share this experience first hand with someone who has crossed into the light and come back to talk about it.

Enter a hidden world of Connections, Miracles & Mystics with some powerful insights that just may offer some enlightenment, awareness, perhaps a little serenity, and a greater sense of purpose.

We each have a little magic in all of us!

Robert Neal Marshall

A graduate of New York University Film, Marshall worked for over a year as Casting Associate with Casting Director Pat Moran, C.S.A. (THE WIRE, HAIRSPRAY, HOMICIDE:LIFE ON THE STREET) and was a proud member of the team to win an Emmy® Award for casting GAME CHANGE starring Julianne Moore, directed by Jay Roach and an Emmy® Nomination for casting Season one of VEEP starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, both for HBO.

Robert has worked as Line Producer, Production Manager and 1st Assistant Director on a variety of feature films and shorts.  Early projects took him to Berlin, Germany where he was Script Supervisor with Regina Ziegler Produktions and includes credits as Assistant Camera and Production Management on multiple Industrials for Chicago based Jack Lieb Productions. Robert was Post Production Manager for the late Shirley Clarke on ORNETTE COLEMAN: MADE IN AMERICA for Caravan of Dreams.

Marshall teamed up with another Near Death Survivor who had also been “In The Light” and together they made a documentary film BACK FROM THE LIGHT which explores the difficult phenomenon of aftereffects that occur to individuals who have had a Near Death Experience. These aftereffects have a life long impact on not only the experiencer, but for loved ones, family and friends. What would you do if a loved one died…then came back to talk about it?

Marshall has appeared on several podcasts, including THE PARANORMAL PRODJECT with Scott Allan, A WORLD AWAKENING with Andrea Perron, and BEYOND with Heather Tesch, as well as appearing live at the Alley Theater with Scott Allan and at the Shea Theater with Medium Karen Tatro. 

Robert’s documentary DVD THREE QUEENS-AN INTERNATIONAL RENDEZVOUS covered with the final journey of Cunard’s former flagship, QE2. Another documentary MR. OCEAN LINER, shares the life and times of maritime historian and author Bill Miller with a World Premiere aboard Queen Mary 2, before proudly making its Lincoln Center and New York City premiere in High Definition as part of “Cinematic Passages: The Ocean Liner on Screen” at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.

In the early 1980‘s Robert had the opportunity to move into theatrical production in the West End of London as Assistant to late producer Richard Armitage on several hit shows, including ME AND MY GIRL starring Emma Thompson & Robert Lindsay, HIGH SOCIETY starring Natasha Richardson, directed by Richard Eyre, THE ENTERTAINER, and Rowan Atkinson’s one man show A NEW REVUE. While in London Robert produced and directed the successful West End debut of IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL? at the Donmar Warehouse.

His musical RUMPELSTILTSKIN’S DAUGHTER was presented at the prestigious Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival and has seen regional productions in Maryland, for Theatre IV in Richmond Virginia and at the Earl’s Court Festival in London, UK. Robert’s dramatic play adaptation 41N 50W based on the 1912 Titanic US Senate hearings showcased at the St. James Theatre in London, at the SeaCity Museum in Southampton, England and is currently under development for larger production in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

As Producer/Tour Manager he traveled with Richard Pryor’s daughter, Rain Pryor, on her one woman show FRIED CHICKEN & LATKES, also producing initial workshops of AFTER ALL for Tony Award nominated actress Anita Gillette.

A member of Dramatists’ Guild, Screen Actors Guild/AFTRA and Actors’ Equity, Robert is no stranger in front of the camera and on stage. He played paranormal researcher John Zaffis on recurring episodes of A HAUNTING and appeared in a principal role on the final season of HOUSE OF CARDS. Other credits include FDNY Capt. Jay Jonas in the Emmy Nominated COUNTDOWN TO GROUND ZERO for the History Channel, as Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama in SOMALI PIRATE TAKEDOWN for The Discovery Channel, and both the Off-Broadway and Baltimore Hippodrome productions of Ken Davenport’s hit interactive comedy AWESOME 80’S PROM.

Since 2009 Robert has enjoyed much time at sea as one of the top rated Guest Lecturers on board Queen Mary 2 with the Cunard Line’s award winning Insights® Enrichment Programme. His topics on film and theatre include a retrospective of the Newsreels with rare color footage of the D-Day invasion in Normandy and the Liberation of Paris captured by his Grandfather as a newsreel cameraman during WWII.