Career
Chris Ioan Roberts is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Bachelor of Dramatic Art, 2010) and is an alumnus of the Watermill Centre, New York, where he worked with celebrated American avant-garde director Robert Wilson. Whilst at the VCA he was the recipient of the Friends of VCA Award for his residency in New New York He trained originally as a ballet dancer.
His theatre work is known for its subversion, shock humour and political undercurrent as well as for its highly formal and often chaotic aesthetic.
He lives in London.
Roberts is noted for his international focus as a theatre-maker and has most notably collaborated with London’s Ovalhouse, writing, directing and performing in his play Dead Royal in 2015 as Wallis Simpson and Diana Spencer which was re-commissioned following a 2014 work-in-progress season. The work was subsequently invited to the Brisbane Festival.
Other collaborations and appearances include work with Jia-Jen Lin (New York), MKA: Theatre of New Writing (Berlin), Louisiana Mama and Daniel Schlusser.
