Rate My Professor Richard Roberts

Professor Richard Roberts serves as Deputy Director of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Head of Design and Production, Associate Professor, and Melbourne Enterprise Professor in Design and Production in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. He completed a degree at Flinders University in Adelaide during a period when university fees were abolished under policies supporting the arts. Roberts launched his professional career in 1977 as resident designer at the State Theatre Company of South Australia. Over nearly five decades, he has designed sets and environments for drama, dance, film, television, and opera, collaborating with all major Australian performing arts companies including the Melbourne Theatre Company, Victorian Opera, and the Australian Ballet, as well as numerous international productions. Notable designs include the set for Victorian Opera's Parsifal in 2019, the Adelaide Festival production of Sophocles' Oedipus The King with costume designer Tania Moiseiwitsch, and reimagined sets for the Australian Ballet's Don Quixote, drawing on original 1973 film documentation by Barry Kay.