Robert Kronk Email & Phone Number

Artist biographyRobert is the CEO and Artistic Director of Flipside Circus and is a co-founder and director of debase (winner Gold Matilda Award 2018). He was Director of Programming and Director of Operations at Metro Arts until 2008 and has worked extensively as a dramaturg, writer, director, and producer for companies including; La Boite, Brisbane Festival, Queensland Theatre, HotHouse Theatre, and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. He is an award winning writer whose credits include: All Other Places (2000), Lovejunk (2001), Snagged (published by Playlab 2009), Ithaca Road (nominated for an AWGIE Award and published by Playlab 2009), Fly-In Fly-Out (2012) (shortlisted for the 2012 Rodney Seaborn Award and published by Playlab 2014), We That Are Left (nominated for an AWGIE Award 2016), and The Longest Minute with Nadine McDonald-Dowd commissioned by Queensland Theatre and JUTE (winner 2018 Matilda Award for best mainstage production) and We Live Here (winner 2018 Matilda Award for best circus/physical theatre) and Death in a Statesman (published by Playlab 2023). In collaboration with Bridget Boyle and Liz Skitch he has written The Loud Room (2002-04), Big Things (2007), and Popping Lead Balloons (2009). He coordinated The Tunnel – a Brisbane-based satirical writing team, and was head writer on The Tunnel’s Uncle Tony’s Oats (co-produced with Queensland Theatre 2010), and Campbell’s Winter Soup (2011). His directing credits include the remount/tour of Chasing the Lollyman for debase, and Statum and Dogs in the Schoolyard for Flipside Circus.He studied drama at Queensland University of Technology graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. He has taught at Queensland University of Technology, the University of Southern Queensland and Central Queensland University, and run workshops and master-classes for students, teachers and artists around Australia.

Listed skills include Performing Arts, Arts Administration, Theatre, Event Management, and 11 others.

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  Queensland University Of Technology

  Bachelor Of Arts (Drama)