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.