Robert Westley
Apt. # 3F
212-613-5457
dpwestley@yahoo.com
Certified Teacher, Fight Director
Member Since: 1997
Other Affiliations: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME)
Robert has performed, directed, choreographed movement and staged violence for theatres, opera houses and film companies across the country and for the past thirteen years has worked professionally as an actor and physical performer for stage and screen. Recent fight directing credits include the premieres of “The Bigger Man” at Los Angeles’ Circle X theatre, “Gabriel’s Daughter” for Central City Opera and New York City premieres of “The Screams of Kitty Genovese,” “The Salacious Uncle Baldrick” and “Waiter, Waiter.” Other recent theatre productions include the Keen Company’s “Tea and Sympathy” and the Jewish Emu Theatre Company’s “The Indian Wants the Bronx” in New York City, Boston’s New Repertory Theatre’s “A Skull of Connemara,” and The Huntington Theatre Studio’s productions of “Hot House,” and “Polaroid Stories.” Additionally, Robert’s work has been seen at such venues as Chautauqua Opera, The Lost Colony, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the New York Fringe Festival. He has worked on theatrical productions of Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, West Side Story, The Fantasticks, Private Lives, Moon Over Buffalo, Noises Off, Othello and Company, and the operas Tosca, I Pagliacci, Les Contes D’Hoffmann and Carmen. Recent film credits include “The Key Man” starring Hugo Weaving and Brian Cox and “Fall Down Dead” with David Carradine and Dominique Swain.
Robert has taught and coached acting, theatrical movement and stage combat both nationally and internationally and has instructed at Boston University’s Theatre Conservatory and Opera Institute, the North Carolina School of the Arts, National Theatre Conservatory, Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, the Asolo Conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music, the University of Alabama, Temple University and numerous workshops and intensives in America and Great Britain. Robert is a holds a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University’s School of Theatre Arts Professional Theatre Training Program and a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from Northern Illinois University. Currently, Robert works as Managing Director of GoodFoot Movement Productions which he co-founded and is presently the Head of Movement at Hofstra University.