Robbie Bowman
Robert was born in Longview, Washington State, U.S. He is an actor, acting teacher and NLP master practitioner trained by Ian McDermott at ITS.
Robert trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He began his career in Dublin working at Ireland’s National Theatre (The Abbey). He then appeared at the Gate Theatre in London as part of Stephen Daldry’s award-winning season of foreign plays where he was nominated for a Carling Fringe Theatre Best Actor Award for his role in The Crackwalker. He continued his relationship with Stephen Daldry playing Eric in the groundbreaking first production of An Inspector Calls at the RNT and tour. After taking a year out to study directing with Sam Kogan he went back to the RNT to appear in Ted Hughes’ version of The Orestia directed by Katie Mitchell and to The Royal Court in Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning into Butter directed by Dominic Cooke.
Other work at the RNT includes Mali in Haroun and the Sea of Stories (RNT) directed by Tim Supple and Ivanov (RNT) directed by Katie Mitchell.
For the RSC and West End Robert appeared as Reverend Hale in Dominic Cooke’s award-winning staging of The Crucible. Other plays at the RSC include Twelfth Night, Wives Excuse, Broken Heart, Comedy of Errors, Love in a Wood and The Prisoner’s Dilemma.
At the Young Vic Robert was part of Tim Supple’s ensemble performing in Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (RSC/YV), Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Cash in As I lay Dying.
For Bristol Old Vic Robert appeared in title roles of Cyrano De Bergerac and The Odyssey. He appeared in the award-winning production Deep Cut for Sherman Cymru, at the Edinburgh Fringe and Tricycle Theatre. For Living Pictures Robert appeared in The Nest, A Place with the Pigs (Living Pictures/Sherman Cymru), Diary of a Madman and Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
More recently, The Duke in Measure for Measure (Sherman Cymru), Tis Pity She’s a Whore (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and The Fixer for Fanshen Theatre Company at the Oval House, London. Directing work includes co-director Andromache (Living Pictures), Macbeth (Ways and Means TC), Free from Sorrow (Living Pictures), The Seagull, Ghosts (Bristol Old Vic), Small Family Business, The Seagull (RWCMD), The Blue Room (Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal), Caucasian Chalk Circle (Trinity St Davids, Carmarthen) and Miss Julie (Living Pictures).
He has been working on Diary of a Madman with Sinéad Rushe focusing on the techniques of Michael Chekhov since 2012 and has since toured Wales, parts of the UK, was part of the Armenian Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013 and 2015, was chosen to be part of the British Council’s Edinburgh Festival Showcase 2015, and won the Welsh Theatre Critics Best Actor in an English Language Production Award 2014 for his performance in Diary of a Madman.
He is a recipient of the Welsh Arts Council’s Creative Wales Scheme (2016) where he studied neurology, biology and physiology to better understand the latest thinking on how we learn, with the aim of disseminating that information through theatre games, theatre practice and magic. He also has an ongoing curiosity (which was part of the award) about trauma and how it affects brain function.
Robert Bowman | Living Pictures Productions
Robert trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He began his career in Dublin working at Ireland’s National Theatre (The Abbey). He then appeared at the Gate Theatre in London as part of Stephen Daldry’s award-winning season of foreign plays where he was nominated for a Carling Fringe Theatre Best Actor Award for his role in The Crackwalker. He continued his relationship with Stephen Daldry playing Eric in the groundbreaking first production of An Inspector Calls at the RNT and tour. After taking a year out to study directing with Sam Kogan he went back to the RNT to appear in Ted Hughes’ version of The Orestia directed by Katie Mitchell and to The Royal Court in Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning into Butter directed by Dominic Cooke.
Other work at the RNT includes Mali in Haroun and the Sea of Stories (RNT) directed by Tim Supple and Ivanov (RNT) directed by Katie Mitchell.
For the RSC and West End Robert appeared as Reverend Hale in Dominic Cooke’s award-winning staging of The Crucible. Other plays at the RSC include Twelfth Night, Wives Excuse, Broken Heart, Comedy of Errors, Love in a Wood and The Prisoner’s Dilemma.
At the Young Vic Robert was part of Tim Supple’s ensemble performing in Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (RSC/YV), Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Cash in As I lay Dying.
For Bristol Old Vic Robert appeared in title roles of Cyrano De Bergerac and The Odyssey. He appeared in the award-winning production Deep Cut for Sherman Cymru, at the Edinburgh Fringe and Tricycle Theatre. For Living Pictures Robert appeared in The Nest, A Place with the Pigs (Living Pictures/Sherman Cymru), Diary of a Madman and Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
More recently, The Duke in Measure for Measure (Sherman Cymru), Tis Pity She’s a Whore (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and The Fixer for Fanshen Theatre Company at the Oval House, London. Directing work includes co-director Andromache (Living Pictures), Macbeth (Ways and Means TC), Free from Sorrow (Living Pictures), The Seagull, Ghosts (Bristol Old Vic), Small Family Business, The Seagull (RWCMD), The Blue Room (Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal), Caucasian Chalk Circle (Trinity St Davids, Carmarthen) and Miss Julie (Living Pictures).
He has been working on Diary of a Madman with Sinéad Rushe focusing on the techniques of Michael Chekhov since 2012 and has since toured Wales, parts of the UK, was part of the Armenian Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013 and 2015, was chosen to be part of the British Council’s Edinburgh Festival Showcase 2015, and won the Welsh Theatre Critics Best Actor in an English Language Production Award 2014 for his performance in Diary of a Madman.
He is a recipient of the Welsh Arts Council’s Creative Wales Scheme (2016) where he studied neurology, biology and physiology to better understand the latest thinking on how we learn, with the aim of disseminating that information through theatre games, theatre practice and magic. He also has an ongoing curiosity (which was part of the award) about trauma and how it affects brain function.
Robert Bowman | Living Pictures Productions
