Actor - Dr Arthur Brownlow
Rob is the Artistic Director of the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble and Associate Professor of Linguistics and Drama at the University of Queensland. Originally from Perth (Australia), Rob undertook extensive training in both linguistics and acting in the USA for six years before moving to Brisbane. He is an actor, director, and musician/composer, working mostly with Shakespeare. Published both as a playwright and academic, he has worked with First Nations communities in central Australia to develop language materials as well as publishing articles in a number of sub-fields of linguistic theory. He enjoys fungus and yeast of most kinds (apart from the ones that occasionally grow on human bodies), and engages in both leavening and brewing.