ROBERT VESTY (he/they)

I am a freelance actor, educator and Feldenkrais Practitioner and am developing my practice as an Intimacy Coordinator for Film/TV and Stage, having embarked on the inaugural certification programme with the National Film and Television School. I am a conservatoire trained actor who has maintained an interdisciplinary performance practice over many years. I have also had extensive experience working in Higher Education and until May 2024, was Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Programme Leader of the MA in Professional Arts Practice in the School of Arts at Middlesex University where I also co-chaired the LGBT+ Network. I have also been a long-term visiting lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama, teaching movement on the Collaborative Devised Theatre course. In 2020 I completed my PhD thesis entitled Material Words for Voicing Dancers (Royal Holloway University of London). The practice-led research looked into the use of voice in some dance improvisatory performance practices. I graduated from the London II training as a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® in August 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. Otherwise, I’m a queer person from a working class background now living in East London with my spouse.