Rob Brennan:
CLASS OF 1987
Madison Central High SchoolClass of 1987
Old bridge, NJ
New School UniversityClass of 1998
New york, NY
Rutgers University Class of 1991
New brunswick, NJ
Salk Middle SchoolClass of 1983
Old bridge, NJ
Schirra Elementary SchoolClass of 1981
Old bridge, NJ
Rob's Story
Life
Ahoy there! I was born in Staten Island, NY, May 24th, 1969. My family moved to Old Bridge, NJ in 1977, where I played baseball, soccer, ran track & cross-country, and delivered The News Tribune, worked at Foodtown (which is a video store now, last time I checked), and The Cutting Board Restaurant on Hwy 516, and Laura's Pancake House on Route 9.
After Rutgers, where I majored in psychology (I worked in a mental hospital for depressed and disturbed kids on campus for a while) I went to New Orleans for 2 years and worked as an elementary school teacher with the Teach For America Corp. Then I studied acting in New Orleans and New York City, and did a whole bunch of off Broadway acting and a couple of student films over the past decade and a half. I have moved around a lot; I've lived in the Manhattan neighborhoods of The East Village and Hell's Kitchen. In 1995, I lived in Hoboken. In the late 90's, I lived in the Irish immigrant section of the north central Bronx, Woodlawn, where I was active in an Irish theater company.
To survive, I have been a horse (ok, mule!) and buggy driver/tour-guide in New Orleans' French Quarter, a NYC waiter/bartender, a "temp" corporate law paraglegal, an environmental conservationist canvasser (for Greenpeace and NYPIRG), a high school social studies teacher in Harlem, a colle...Expand for more
ge recruiter/H.S. motivational speaker in NYC Schools for the Katharine Gibbs School in Manhattan (their parent company C.E.C. downsized me and my whole division nationwide in 2003!); Since January of 2005, I'm the Education Director of a web-based career education resource for teens, where I do lots of stuff, including training teachers on how to use our products.
I sometimes read my poems for peace and justice at Vox-Pop Cafe in Flatbush, Brooklyn, where I also founded a free-speech newspaper called The NY Megaphone, which is going strong since spring 2006. Since the summer of 2002, I've lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just across the river from Manhattan.
I have a lovely girlfriend, Miah, a sweet little cat, Uma, a cool bicycle, "the blue and white bike," and I drive a pedicab part-time in Manhattan to make extra dough, and to promote clean air transportation alternatives. I'm in as good of shape if not better than when I was on the track team at MCHS! I have no kids, and have never been married, and I haven't had a car since 1993. If I did, it would be fueled with bio-diesel.
I'm a proud member of the Green Party, and a dual citizen of the USA and The Republic of Ireland. I hope to be able to afford to go to the 25 year MCHS reunion, if we have one, in 2012! Or are we having one in 2007? Later, fellow Spartan!
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