The Theatre Council of Tasmania (TCT) is delighted to announce that home-grown artist, Rob
Maxwell, will soon return to Hobart share his professional talent with local theatre
practitioners.

Rob will conduct two, voice empowerment master classes on Saturday, 18 August and will
also spend Monday, 20 August working with the cast of professional theatre company, Blue
Cow’s, production of Hamlet to deliver specific voice coaching.

Rob is a Tasmanian actor, voice teacher and recent NIDA graduate (Master of Voice), who also
holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Melbourne, and is a graduate of the
Atlantic Acting School in New York City. Rob is currently teaching on NIDA’s prestigious
Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting program, and runs a private voice, speech and dialect coaching
business in Sydney. In 2017, Rob was the recipient of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board
(TAAB) Chairman’s Scholarship and used his grant to do further study in America under
internationally-acclaimed dialect coach Beth McGuire

TCT Vice President, Rod Anderson said that “Tassie theatre has produced some of Australia’s
finest talent.

“The TCT is proud to continue supporting the development of our next generation with this
invaluable workshop.”

The master classes on 18 August are not just for actors but anyone wanting to free their
natural speaking voice, whether it be as an actor, a teacher, a director, a public speaker, or a
parent. Participants will come away with a greater awareness of their vocal abilities.

However, you better be quick as the workshops are filling up fast!

The Hamlet rehearsals will begin with Rob leading the company in vocal warmups, working
one-on-one with the actors and sitting in on the day’s rehearsal, listening to text, giving
feedback and supporting director Robert Jarmon.

Rob is thrilled to be sharing his studies with Tasmanians and hopes to encourage more people
to develop their skills through scholarship opportunities offered by the TCT and other sources.

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Additional Background:

In the two master classes on Saturday, 18 August, Rob will take participants through a series
of explorations that will cover breathing, phonation, resonance, articulation, and text. He will
also be touching on dialect acquisition for those actors seeking to expand their repertoire of
accents.

Robert Maxwell

As a voice teacher and acting coach Rob is passionate about guiding actors towards individual
expression, through the acquirement of a psycho-visceral connection to text. During his time
at NIDA Rob was fortunate enough to work with some of the world’s leading voice
practitioners, including Kristin Linklater, Catherine Fitzmaurice and Barbara Houseman. His
teaching philosophy is also inspired by the work of Cicely Berry, Arthur Lessac, Patsy
Rodenburg and F.M. Alexander.

In 2017 Rob was the recipient of the NIDA MFA Scholarship, and also the Tasmanian Theatre
Council’s TAAB Chairman’s Scholarship. The latter gave him the opportunity to travel to the
U.S.A. to intern with esteemed dialect coach Beth McGuire, while she worked on the hit Marvel
film Black Panther. In 2018 Rob returned to the States to undertake residencies at Yale School
of Drama and Carnegie Mellon University.
Mel King