Our show this week recounts the near-death experience of a very special man.


Robert Neal Marshall has worked for many years in the Arts in various creative positions which include actor, director, producer, casting director, and playwright. He graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and is currently Executive Director for Columbia Festival of the Arts in Maryland.


Early projects took him to Berlin, Germany for Regina Ziegler Productions and Chicago, IL with Jack Lieb Productions. In the mid 1980’s Marshall had a rare opportunity in London’s West End as Assistant to Agent and Theatrical Producer Richard Armitage on several hit shows, including ME AND MY GIRL with Robert Lindsay and Emma Thompson and HIGH SOCIETY with Natasha Richardson.

Marshall has independently produced stage productions in the West End at the Donmar Warehouse, at the famed Edinburgh Festival, in Southampton, UK, and back in the US. His documentary, MR OCEAN LINER, premiered on board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and screened at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center. Marshall’s credits include multiple independent feature films and shorts as Production Manager and Line Producer.


As Casting Associate with Pat Moran, CSA (HAIRSPRAY, THE WIRE) Marshall was a member of the team to win an Emmy® award for casting GAME CHANGE and an Emmy® nomination for casting season one of the comedy VEEP, both for HBO.

As a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity, Marshall’s work features Off Broadway, Regional stage, Film & Television roles, including AWESOME 80’S PROM and HOUSE OF CARDS. For 12 years Marshall has been a guest lecturer for the Cunard Insights Enrichment Program.

Raised in a theatrical family, Marshall’s mother is actress turned photographer Bette Marshall. whose recent pictorial “Young Whitney - Stories and Photographs” is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the pre-fame life of a yet unknown 18-year-old Whitney Houston. His father was Music and Entertainment Law attorney Paul G. Marshall.


Marshall is also a survivor of a near-death experience having gone into V-Fib “The Widow Maker” in an ambulance where he was resuscitated by paramedics.


Robert’s critically acclaimed documentary, BACK FROM THE LIGHT on the aftereffects of surviving a near death experience is the topic of several inspirational talks and asks the question “What would you do if a loved one died… then came back to talk about it?”

This week on the Paranormal Project, we will attempt to answer that question.