Hi there,

I'm Robert. 
Here you'll find documentation of my site-specific artistic practice, research, and teaching. 

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About me

 

Robert Motum is a theatre creator, researcher, and teacher. With a background in site-specific and devised performance, Robert has staged work on an active city bus, in a dorm room, in a Queen West gallery, over Snapchat, in a vacant Target store, in augmented reality, and occasionally even in a theatre space. His work has been supported by the Stratford Festival Playwright's Retreat, Why Not Theatre, Quarantine Theatre (UK), and by $175,000 in grants and fellowships. He is the playwright of A Community Target (Outside the March / Convergence) - a verbatim look into Canada's precarious retail climate.

 

Based in Toronto, but working throughout the GTHA, Robert's recent directing credits include: Train Ballet (Theatre Gargantua), PLAY THIS (Tottering Biped), The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome (Toronto Fringe), and King Charles III* (Mirvish/Studio 180, *assistant). He is the series editor of the Guidebooks from Memory artbook series.

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Robert holds an MA in Performance from Aberystwyth University (Wales) and recently completed his SSHRC-funded PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto where his research examined intersections of site-specificity and notions of nationhood. His writing and research have appeared in Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, Digital Society, The Boston Globe, and in forthcoming edited collections from Palgrave MacMillan, Routledge, and Playwrights Canada Press.

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Robert is honored to live, work, and create on the territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit.