Robert is a professional artist and sound designer living and working in Austin, TX.  For over 20 years he has contributed his abilities as a sound designer, producer, director, actor, musician, whatever to well over a hundred productions. 

For the past 16 years Robert has worked independently as a live theatrical sound designer and composer.  Since 2001, he has been working with Rude Mechanicals, an internationally lauded and respected experimental theatre collective whose work is focused on the cutting edge of live performance.  Their innovative work such as Lipstick Traces, Requiem for Tesla, How Late It Was, How Late, Stadium Devildare, Cherrywood, Get Your War On, Match-Play and Decameron Day 7: Revenge! (in which he simultaneously designed, acted, and performed the live score) have won them critical praise and international acclaim.  Robert made his live directorial debut in 2003 for the Rude Mechs with 300 Plays About Vladimir Putin.  That same year he began his role as key Sound Designer for the company and has designed ten of Rude Mechanicals’ last thirteen productions.  Robert has been nominated numerous times for his work by the Austin Circle of Theatres and the Austin Critics’ Table, having won the honor of best sound design for three productions.

From 2002 to 2005 Robert served as a producer, director and recording engineer at Monster Island Studio for ADV Films, Inc.  At ADV he recorded and engineered the English ADR/VO on 14 titles (ten of which were multi-episode series) while also producing and directing five of those titles. His product output for ADV totals 32 shipped titles.  Some of this work has been aired on Cartoon Network and The Anime Network.

Robert is a musician with The Able Sea which just released their sophomore album appropriately titles THE ABLE SEA II.  Over the years, he has added his musical stylings to eight groups releasing 12 albums.  Robert occasionally performs solo under the moniker Devoto.

Robert is Vice President of Bayou Radio Productions, LLC- a theatre, film, & television production company which premiered it’s first feature film, HOLY HELL, at the 2009 Austin Film Festival.  In 2004, Bayou Radio brought the theatrical production Blah, Blah, Blah to stages in Austin and New York to much critical praise.