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Robert McQueen

Robert Douglas McQueen is a Canadian-born theater and opera director, dramaturge and educator currently living in New York City. His theater and opera productions have been seen across Canada, the United States and internationally.

Robert is the Director of New Musical Development for The Musical Stage Company in Toronto. The Musical Stage Company is Canada's largest not-for-profit professional theater company dedicated to musical theater whose mandate is to produce and develop thought-provoking musical theater with contemporary relevance and to build and enrich communities through musical storytelling.

In 2016, Robert directed the premiere productions of two of Musical Stage Company commissions. The first was, ″ReFramed", a collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario which featured 3 one-act musicals inspired by and played in front of paintings from the AGO's Paris Salon. The second production called, "You Are Here", is a solo voice musical by the Canadian Playhouse, In Gananoque Ontario starring Linda Kash.

McQueen is on the faculty at The Herbert Berghof Studio (HB Studio) in New York City, where he teaches and directs

Career

McQueen studied at Studio 58 Theatre School in Vancouver Canada and at HB Studio in New York City.

Early in his career he appeared in both plays and musicals across Canada and was in the original Toronto Company of Les Miserable at The Royale Alexandra Theatre.

In the early 1990's at the invitation of his teacher and mentor Kathryn Shaw, the Artistic Director at Studio 58 Theatre School, he directed his first musical- a production of Cole Porter's Nymph "Errant", and he has been directing since.