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Robert Brock,

Artistic Director

M.F.A. Acting - Wayne State University

B.A. Theatre - University of Kentucky

Robert Brock, Associate Professor of Theatre at Lindsey Wilson University, was the Artistic Director of the highly acclaimed Kentucky Repertory Theatre for nine years. Mr. Brock joined Kentucky Repertory Theatre (formerly Horse Cave Theatre) in 1998 as an actor before becoming Horse Cave Theatre's Education Director.

In 1979, Robert received a Hilberry Fellowship for graduate study at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he subsequently received his MFA in Acting. He participated in the month-long Intensive Training with Shakespeare & Company in Bennington, VT.

Robert was the director of the very successful Young Performers at Kentucky Rep. He has worked closely with the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, teaching audition workshops and helping with the selection process, and he has been on the drama faculty of the Virginia Governor's School of the Arts. He has also served as a respondent for the American College Theatre Festival.

Robert's acting credits include stints with Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, The Fulton Opera House and Off-Broadway with the Blue Light Theatre. He performed Love Letters with Annie Potts and directed Sally Struthers and Mike Gallagher in Love Letters. Mr. Brock has directed over 65 professional productions.

For Lindsey Wilson, he has directed Antigone, Steel Magnolias, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Crucible, Godspell, The Tempest, Don't Dress For Dinner, Everyman, Romeo and Juliet, Oklahoma!, Pippin, Doubt: A Parable, Proof, Macbeth, and The Importance of Being Earnest, among others.


Kassidy Phelps,
Theatre Graduate Assistant

B.A. in Theatre Arts from Lindsey Wilson University

Kassidy Phelps is the Theatre Graduate Assistant at Lindsey Wilson University. Upon her graduation from Lindsey Wilson in May 2024, she worked as an intern for the 2024 TheatreFest! season and then began as the Graduate Assistant in the Fall of 2024. 

Kassidy will graduate in the Spring of 2027 with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre with an emphasis in Theatre Pedagogy from the University of Idaho. 

Her time at Lindsey Wilson has consisted of acting, teaching, directing, and production management. She has been seen in productions such as Ghosts, Godspell, Much Ado About Nothing, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Weir, and Shiloh Rules. She has directed the following productions: Little Women: The Musical, Anne of Green Gables, and A Grand Night for Singing, and has been a production assistant or manager for several others.