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Robert Brock
Department of Psychophysiology
| Title: | Assistant Professor of Theatre | | Degrees: | MFA, Wayne State University
BA, University of Kentucky | | E-mail: | brockr@lindsey.edu | | Phone: | (270) 384-7382 |
|  | Courses: THEA1313 Introduction to Theatre
THEA1323 Fundamentals of Acting
THEA1333 Introduction to Directing
THEA1341-1351 Practicum I and II
THEA2323 Acting II
THEA3323 Acting III
THEA2333 Directing II
THEA3333 Playwriting
THEA3423 Dramatic Literature Survey
THEA2413 Children’s Theatre
THEA2513 Voice and Movement | Teaching Experience:
- Teaching Fellowship, The Virginia Governor's
School for the Arts. Radford University.
Courses taught: Shakespeare, Movement, Stage Combat, Tai
Chi
- Full Time Faculty, Assistant Professor of Theatre,
Lindsey Wilson College, Present.
- Adjunct Faculty, Western Kentucky University Glasgow
Campus, Present
Teaching Theatre Appreciation
- Adjunct Faculty, Lindsey Wilson College, 2003
Fundamentals of Performance, Advanced Acting
- Education Director, Horse Cave Theatre, 1998-2002
Duties include: Teaching Workshops on the Road, Adult
Acting Classes, coordinating the Student Theatre Workshop,
Directing the Young Performers Production, coordinating Study
Guides for Educational Outreach productions.
- Visiting Professor, Western Kentucky University, Spring
1998
Theatre Appreciation, Stage Combat, Basic Techniques of
Acting
- Instructor, Transylvania University, 1990-1994
Taught courses in Introduction to Theatre, Acting I,
Acting II, Special Projects in Drama: Shakespeare in Production,
(production oriented approach to Shakespeare culminating in a trip
to the Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada)
- Visiting Professor, University of Kentucky, Spring
1985
Vocal Production, Verse Drama, Dialects and Acting IV -
Period Styles
Other Relevant
Experience:
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Shakespeare &
Co.
Month-long Intensive Training - Shakespeare & Co., Bennington,
VT 2001
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Governor's School For The Arts -
Art shops
Taught audition workshops for GSA in Murray, Danville, Hopkinsville
and Bowling Green, 1998 to present
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KHSSA State High School Drama
Festival
Adjudicator: 1999
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Kentucky Theatre
Association
Adjudicator: High School Festival, WKU Bowling Green, 2007
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Kentucky Theatre
Association
Adjudicator: Community Theatre-Russell County, 1999
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Faculty Sponsor SETC
Led group of Transylvania students to SETC in Savannah, GA
1994
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Shakespeare Youth Project Artistic
Director
Adapted Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet and
Hamlet for five actors.
Created Study Guides and led workshops with audiences. Over
fifty performances in schools throughout Kentucky.
| Biography:
Prior to joining the Lindsey Wilson
College faculty, Robert Brock was Artistic Director
of the highly acclaimed Kentucky Repertory Theatre in Horse Cave,
Ky. During his tenure with KRT, the theatre was hailed as one
of the "ten best small regional theatres nationwide," by USA
Today, and was the recipient of the coveted Governor's Arts
Award. He produced 86 plays while with KRT, developed and produced
11 new scripts, and his adaptation of Drinkwater's Abraham
Lincoln was performed as part of the Kentucky Abraham Lincoln
Bicentennial celebration. He is a member of Actor's Equity
and has worked with Actor's Theatre of Louisville, The Folger
Shakespeare Theatre, and Off-Broadway among many others. He
has an MFA in Acting from Wayne State University and received WSU's
Arts Achievement Award in 2004. He has developed a number of
one-man shows and continues to perform them all around; Mark
Twain, Billy Herndon (Lincoln's Law partner), The
Gospel of John and The Book of Revelation.
Awards, Fellowships:
- Arts Achievement Award
2004, Wayne State University
- Outstanding Part-time Faculty
Award, 2007. WKU
- Hilberry Fellowship, Wayne State University,
1979-1981
- Award of Excellence in Acting, American
College Theatre Festival, Washington DC 1980
- NEA Grant for adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
for Lexington Children's Theatre, 1990
- TCG Observership Grant, 2000, to observe
educational outreach programs at The Barter Theatre, Theatre IV,
Theatre Virginia and The Shakespeare Theatre.
- Finalist (Wild Oats), American College Theatre
Festival, Washington, DC 1981
- Winner-Actor's Guild Festival of New Plays:
Award and production of my play, It's a long way to
Tipperary.
Memberships:
- Actor's Equity Association
Other
Experiences
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