Robert Lewis is a director, voice and movement teacher, and playwright who trained with Cicely Berry, Frankie Armstrong, Rowena Balos, Mike Alfreds, OzFrank Theatre, as well as Butoh with Yoshito Ohno in Japan, including many others, and is a Nobbs Suzuki Praxis member. Robert has published theatre performances and training films through Contemporary Arts Media (Artfilms) and has also published various articles on the subject of voice and movement integration. He is a lecturer in Performing Arts at Charles Sturt University, and previously lectured in Voice and Movement in at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), Acting at Collarts, and was a voice tutor at St Martins Youth Theatre and VCA. He also teaches into the NIDA Open and Studio programs in Melbourne.
He has studied Performing Arts (Theatre) at UTAS, Performing Arts (Honours) at Monash University, Secondary Education at RMIT, and a Gradate Diploma of Dramatic Art (Voice Studies) at NIDA.
His PhD focused on integrative practices and intercultural performance training aesthetics. Robert also completed a Certification in Integrative Studies at the One Voice Centre, New York.
Robert is also the founder and director of the AusAct: Australasian Actor Training Conference, a conference and training event that brings together acting teachers from Australasia and beyond to discuss, showcase, interrogate, and celebrate original actor training practices.
Robert recently published ‘The Third Space: Body, Voice, and Imagination’ through Routledge, whew he outlines original integrative practice systems (voice and movement integration). The approach that is outlined in the book is a way of working that unlocks the imagination as well as connecting performers to self, space, and imagination, through voice and body. It conditions, controls, and engages performers by integrating various voice and movement practices.
Robert aims to build confidence and skills through the deep exploration, interrogation and activation of their voices, bodies and imagination by increasing awareness of self and space. His work develops a deeper connection between spaces within the body and the environment by connecting sound, imagination, and movement
