Bobby Steggert

Bobby Steggert is an American actor and therapist born on March 2, 1981, in Frederick, Maryland. He graduated as valedictorian from Frederick High School in 1999 and went on to earn a degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He also completed a yearlong foundation course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Steggert's Broadway career spanned from 2003 to 2014. Among his earlier stage credits were "MASTER HAROLD"…and the boys and a 2007 revival of 110 in the Shade, in which he played Jimmy Curry. That performance earned him an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. During the same period, he appeared in Off-Broadway and regional productions including columbinus at the New York Theatre Workshop, The New Group's The Music Teacher, and A Christmas Carol. Regional highlights included the Dauphin in Saint Joan and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and productions of "MASTER HAROLD"…and the boys and Speech and Debate at L.A. Theatre Works.

In 2008, Steggert took on the male lead in The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (Or, the Friends of Dr. Rushower) at the Vineyard Theatre in Manhattan. The musical featured a libretto and drawings by Ben Katchor, music by Mark Mulcahy, and direction by Bob McGrath. The role brought him nominations for both the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance. The following year, he appeared in a production of Ragtime at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and subsequently starred in the Broadway revival of that production as Mother's Younger Brother.

In the spring of 2010, Steggert starred in the Off-Broadway production of Yank: A WWII Love Story at the York Theatre Company, and that summer he appeared in A. R. Gurney's The Grand Manner at Lincoln Center Theater alongside Kate Burton, Boyd Gaines, and Brenda Wehle. That year he also received the Theatre World Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence.

Steggert co-starred with Tyne Daly in the world premiere of Terrence McNally's Mothers and Sons at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in June 2013, playing Will Ogden in a limited run of 14 performances. The production transferred to Broadway's John Golden Theatre, where it ran from February 23 to June 22, 2014, with Fred Weller joining the cast and Sheryl Kaller returning as director. Also in 2013, Steggert starred as Will Bloom in the Broadway musical Big Fish, appearing alongside Norbert Leo Butz and Kate Baldwin. The production ran for 98 performances between September 5 and December 29, 2013.

Beyond the stage, Steggert joined the cast of the television soap opera All My Children in March 2005, playing Sam Grey until December of that year. His film work includes For Richer or Poorer (1997), directed by Bryan Spicer; Kinsey (2004), directed by Bill Condon; Game 6 (2005), directed by Michael Hoffman; and The Namesake (2006), directed by Mira Nair.

Around 2016, Steggert stepped away from acting to pursue a career in mental health. He earned a Master's in Social Work from Columbia University and trained as a therapist at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy in their Gender and Sexuality Program. In 2024, he returned to performing when he was cast as painter John Singer Sargent in the third season of HBO's The Gilded Age.