Education
He studied Shakespeare with Broadway"s classical actor Lawrence H. Cecil who was the first actor/director to present Shakespeare on radio in the United States in the 1930s.
He studied Shakespeare with Broadway"s classical actor Lawrence H. Cecil who was the first actor/director to present Shakespeare on radio in the United States in the 1930s.
He is currently the principal of his own radio and media training academy, The Max Rowley Media and Drama Academy. Rowley started acting in his teens and spent many years in the Professional Workshops at the Independent Theatre. He was also trained at the Kennerdale Radio Acting School which he eventually took over as principal.
He got his professional radio start during the closing years of broadcasting"s "Golden Age" of radio dramas, working consistently with Grace Gibson, Artransa, 2UE, 2GB, 2UW, Aging with Attitude and all American Broadcasting Company radio units.
Rowley appeared in classic serials such as Portia Faces Life, Doctor Paul, et cetera Rowley was one of the very few announcers to commence in Sydney without previous country experience.
Throughout the 1960s and into the "70s he was heard on 2CH. He was also promotional voice on the John Laws Show and was a talk back personality at 2KY in the early 1990s. The Max Rowley Media and Drama Academy has been established over a generation.
Max has trained thousands of Australians in speech and many hundreds of broadcast announcers for radio and television in Australia.