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intimacy coordinator
actor
educator
Experience
INTEGRATING OVER THIRTY YEARS OF PRACTICE
Robert is an Intimacy Coordinator and actor working across the UK and Ireland. He has a background as an educator both through his work as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and as a Lecturer of theatre and acting in Higher Education. He started in and grew up through Theatre, but has been developing his work across Screen (Film and HETV), integrating years of experience working with actors after gaining certification as an IC through the National Film and Television School. Across all his work, Robert is interested in improvisation as well as the intersection between class, queerness and access in relation to the arts, bodies and movement.
INTIMACY COORDINATOR
working across film, tv & theatre
Robert completed his training and certification as an Intimacy Coordinator with the National Film and Television School in 2024 on the inaugural training course led by Haley Muraleedharan. The training involved hands-on sessions covering the fundamentals of consent-based practice, including a focus on robust paperwork, choreography and actors’ processes. Robert puts collaboration with the director and the whole production team at the heart of the work to help foster a safe and creative environment for a successful shoot.
“I just wanted to say thank you so much for joining us. You helped us all feel so comfortable and safe allowing me to do my job with ease; and that it was a genuine pleasure having you on set. Hope to work with you again in the future.”
Director, The Axe Forgets, Ireland
“I have to say Rob, it was so great having you on set and directing us. You were brilliant. I’m still processing and reflecting, but it made such a difference and definitely made us feel more comfortable with the kiss.“
Actor, A Walk in the Park, Ireland
“You were amazing on the shoot! I definitely felt supported and taken care of. So thank you!“‘
Actor, Glitched, UK
“Working with Rob was a truly wonderful experience. My actors felt safe and comfortable – and what Rob helped them establish really deepened the dynamics of their relationship, even beyond the intimate moments, on stage.”
Director, Baby Baby Baby, UK
actor
CONSERVATOIRE TRAINED
Robert trained as an actor in late 90s (Birmingham University and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), but aside from working in voiceover, short film and theatre, his performance practice can also be located across several disciplines including dance. Improvisation is a key specialism. Robert has continued over many years to work both as an actor and teacher in actor-training settings, principally at Middlesex University and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama incorporating his specialism in movement (through the Feldenkrais Method) and improvisation.
educator
A LECTURER, RESEARCHER AND FELDENKRAIS PRACTITIONER
Robert has a background as a lecturer in Higher Education (he is a Senior Fellow of Advanced Higher Education) and teacher (with QTS), He was awarded his PhD in 2020, which looked at the role of voicing in improvised dance practice. Key to his role as an educator, is his teaching of the Feldenkrais Method®, of which he is a fully qualified practitioner. Feldenkrais is a somatic education modality that can help people find more ease in their movement, whether that be everyday movement or the kind an actor, dancer or athlete might engage in high performance situations. In that way, Feldenkrais can be practiced by everybody regardless of their level of ability, because of its slow and gentle approach. Robert graduated from the London II training in 2015 and has taught group classes to acting students and continues to teach 1-2-1 hands-on lessons in East London by appointment.
BIOGRAPHY
Robert grew up half in Lancashire and half in Essex through the 70s and 80s. He was the eldest of three boys in a working-class family and a first-generation University student. He originally trained as an actor (University of Birmingham and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama) in the 90s, but has maintained an interdisciplinary performance practice over many years since. He has also had extensive experience working in Higher Education. Until May 2024, he was Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University where he taught on the BA Theatre programme, led the MA in Professional Arts Practice and co-chaired the LGBT+ Staff Network. Robert was a long-term visiting lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama, teaching movement (through the Feldenkrais Method) on the Collaborative Devised Theatre course between 2016 and 2021. In 2020, he completed his PhD thesis entitled Material Words for Voicing Dancers (Royal Holloway University of London) based on practice-led research that investigated the use of voice in some dance improvisatory performance practices. Robert graduated as a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® in 2015. The thing that brings all this together is a specialism in movement for actors within the field of consent-based performance in both practice and research.
