Robert Reid is a freelance playwright, director and academic. He is Artistic Director and a founding member of the Melbourne games and playful events company Pop Up Playground. He has had two plays produced at the Melbourne Theatre Company – Joy of Text (2010) and On The Production of Monsters (2012). Robert recently published Hello World! Promoting the Arts on the Net, a Platform Paper for Currency House. He is a reviewer for theatrealive.com; a panelist for the Greenroom awards Alternative and Hybrid Panel; a regular panelist for Arts Victoria; and host of the Meant to Be Spoken events for the Melbourne Writers Festival. He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a post graduate diploma in directing in 2000, holds a Masters Degree in Creative Industry (Scriptwriting) from Queensland University of Technology and is currently completing a PhD in Australian Theatre History at La Trobe University
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