Rob Myles

Rob Myles is a multi-award-winning director, actor and teaching artist; a Certified Teacher with the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat, Rob is the resident stage combat instructor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and a fight director for regional theatre and independent film. Creator of Original Parallels, The Shakespeare Deck, Illuminated Text, The Show Must Go Online, and the Owning Shakespeare Podcast. In 2020, he directed all 36 First Folio plays of Shakespeare, winning a OneOff Award, and being nominated for The Stage Digital Project of The Year. Rob has since won the British Shakespeare Association Innovation Award and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Interactive Production, with The Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada. Previously, Rob has played over 30 Shakespearean roles in off-west-end and regional touring productions. His book, Innovation & Digital Theatremaking (Routledge), explores how his work in business innovation provides novel problem solving for theatremakers of the future.