After leaving The Rose Bruford School of Speech and Drama,he joined Andre Gavrillac's Troubadours, playing Richard III, Edmund from King Lear, and Spurio in The Revenger's Tragedy. He went on to join Paul Harrington's Reunion Theatre Company playing among others, Aston in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, and Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Film credits include Wolfram in The Dark, and Vangard in Angelfire.

As a magician he has achieved acclaim in several fields. He has performed close-up magic at many of London's prestigious hotels including The Ritz, The Dorchester, The Hilton, and The Connaught Rooms. He also enjoyed a short season at The Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris. As an illusionist he has performed at most of London's more prominent nightclubs which resulted in his appointment as Entertainment Director for The Limelight Club and later Xenon's. He is often seen at major events at Britain's castles including Leeds, Orford, Eastnor, and Hampton Court Palace, and is a familiar face on some of the Thames' most prominent showboats including The Symphony and The Dixie Queen. He has also performed in the VIP lounge at Wembley Stadium during events like The Budweiser Bowl, and concerts by leading artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna.

Robert produced two full scale illusion and circus shows: Spellbound which premiered at The London Paladium before he took it to Tokyo and Yokohama, and Phantaste which toured Europe and India. He also designed illusions and coached actors for Nick Hedges' original National Youth Theatre production of The Tempest, and was a consultant on BBC's Tricky Business and NBC's Unbelievable!

Phoenix began life as Robert's small project designed to help theatricals who were out of work and looking for a way back in. It has since become an obsession as he realised how little was out there to help this industry in real-world practical ways.

For Phoenix he has written, produced, directed and designed original musicals including The Lamp and Humbug! (both of which he also co-composed) and DecaDance. Other producing and directing credits include The Little Shop of Horrors, A View From The Bridge, Macbeth, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet.

Robert is currently working on the combining of classic and modern dance, drama, illusion, and various circus skills to create a new performance type and a more visually challenging way to tell a story. The first show using these techniques, Nature's Stepchildren, is on the drawing board and will tour to The Ukraine by invitation of that country's government once it is complete before returning to Britain, hopefully to be staged in Phoenix's own full scale venue before going on to tour nationally. He also has several stage and filmscripts in various stages of planning and is looking forward to taking Phoenix on to the next level, and using his knowledge, skills, and experience to open doors for others

He regards Phoenix as his first good point well made. He may never recover from the shock.