Robert Bailey

THE DIRECTORS WORKSHOP
Led by director and teacher Robert Bailey, The Directors Workshop gives directors the tools and hands-on experience to confidently work on their projects in a supportive environment. In the workshop you find your space to explore, to experiment, and to take risks—without the pressure of production. Emerging and experienced directors & writer-directors work from plays and screenplays to guide actors toward truthful and compelling performances. Writer-Directors transport ideas from the page to the stage using actors, getting to what actually works in performance, and discovering what areas in the text still need work. In The Directors Workshop, you hone your craft and connect with other artists in a supportive environment.

BIO
Robert Bailey has been a director, actor and teacher for over 30 years. His production of Eugene O’Neill’s rarely-produced masterpiece A TOUCH OF THE POET last year earned critical praise and ran for several months at Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre. Other LA productions include THE TURN OF THE SCREW, THE DOCK BRIEF, LOBBY HERO, BORDERLINE and ANACARDIUM. In New York he was associated with several leading theatres, including Circle Repertory Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, American Place Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Actors Studio, winning praise for his productions of contemporary plays in the New York Times, New York Magazine and the Village Voice. His short dramatic film LAST CALL won Best Dramatic Short, Best Actor, and Best Actress while touring film festivals in the U.S. and Europe.

Robert Bailey teaches directing and acting at USC and has staged over a dozen School of Dramatic Arts productions, including new plays written by students in the MFA Playwriting program. He is also currently on the faculty at the New York Film Academy. For many years he was a popular teacher and coach at the Corner Loft Studio in Greenwich Village, and conducted workshops and master classes for Sarah Lawrence College, Brown University, School for Visual Arts, Manhattan Theatre Workshop, Foundation for the Creative Community, Billy Siegenfeld and Dancers, Talent Unlimited, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has taught and directed on the graduate and undergraduate levels at UC San Diego, UCLA and Brown University.

Robert earned his degree in Theatre Arts and Dramatic Literature from Brown University and was awarded upon graduation with a Samuel Arnold Fellowship to work with renowned theatrical innovator Jerzy Grotowski at the Polish Laboratory Theatre in Wroclaw. He subsequently became a founding member, actor, director and teacher at the Washington Theatre Laboratory, an experimental troupe in the nation’s capital which adapted works by Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, John Hawkes and Hans Christian Andersen.