University of Alaska Southeast Personnel

Roblin Gray Davis , M.F.A.

Director, Joint Theatre Program

Davis

523-9070

Arts and Sciences - Humanities /
Juneau
Perseverance Theatre

M.F.A. in Actor Created Theatre from Naropa University/London International School of Performing Arts
Certificate in the Professional Training Program from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre
B.A. from Western Washington University, Fairhaven College.

Roblin Gray Davis is a performer, director and teacher of innovative theatre. He has performed and toured regionally, nationally and internationally. He has worked as a director, performer, puppeteer, mask-maker and teacher with Perseverance Theatre, Juneau Lyric Opera, Opera-To-Go, the Juneau-Douglas High School, Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc., Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre and Wild Rumpus Theatre. He has trained as a Teaching Artist with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts/ Alaska State Council on the Arts as well as the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council and has been an Artist in the Schools around the State of Alaska for the past 15 years.

Roblin earned his M.F.A. degree from an innovative program through Naropa University and the London International School for the Performing Arts where he spent two years in London studying masks, movement, the dynamics of human nature, dramatic construction and the application of theatrical territories. “Creating original theatre is the process of making the invisible visible. The metaphysical world of the artist (the thoughts, ideas, feelings and emotions hidden inside) must be made manifest in the world through physical articulation. The body is the primary instrument of the performing artist and it is through the body that the actor-creator gains immediate access to the creative imagination.” The creative imagination and the intelligence of the body form the core principles of his pedagogical approach, increasing a keen sensitivity between physical impulse and the discovery of the creative idea beneath the impulse.

Performance credits include:
Battles of Fire and Water, Wittenberg, The Laramie Project, How I Learned to Drive, King Stag, The Wooden Breeks, The Winter’s Tale, On the Razzle, FryTales and FryTales: all new adventures.

In 2004, Roblin was the recipient of the Alaska State Council on the Arts Connie Boochever Artist Fellowship.