Robert Westley

Robert has performed, directed, and choreographed movement and staged violence for award winning theatre productions, internationally acclaimed opera houses and films for twenty-three years. Robert incorporates his training in acting, dance, clowning, martial arts, mask, puppetry, yoga and other disciplines to bring unique creation of character and story to multiple performance venues. His work has received rave reviews by the New York Times, New York Magazine, Variety, Newsday, Opera News and many others.

He made his Broadway debut in February of this year as the Fight Director for Hand To God. Most recently he choreographed New York City productions of Hand to God at the MCC Theatre, Verite at LCT3, Lesser America’s Trevor, Second Stage Theatre's production of Butcher of Baraboo, Studio 42's Billy Witch, The New York Musical Theatre Festival production of The Screams of Kitty Genovese, the Keen Company's Tea and Sympathy, and The New York Fringe Festival's The Salacious Uncle Baldrick and Waiter, Waiter. Regional credits include the Westport Country Playhouse's production of The Things We Do For Love, Asolo Repertory Theatre's The Game's Afoot and God of Carnage, Boston's New Repertory Theatre's A Skull in Connemara and Los Angeles' Circle X Theatre’s production of The Bigger Man. Robert has choreographed movement for the National Lyric Opera of New York, Opera Providence, Central City Opera, Chautauqua Opera, The Lost Colony, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival and the 75th Anniversary Tour of Porgy and Bess.

As a physical performer Robert has worked in productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York Theatre Workshop and for independent live action companies across the country. He has worked as a stunt double and stunt performer for action films such as The Key Man starring Hugo Weaving, Eyeborgs starring Danny Trejo and Fall Down Dead with David Carradine. Robert is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Robert has been an instructor and movement coach for theatrical productions and on film sets and at Boston University's Theatre Conservatory and Opera Institute, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, National Theatre Conservatory, Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, the Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, the Manhattan School of Music, the University of Alabama, Temple University and intensives in America and Great Britain.