Roddy Maude-Roxby, Workshop Facilitator, Artist, Performer
Roddy has worked with masks and improvisation for over 40 years and was a co- creator of improvisational games developed at the Royal Court theatre and then as ‘Theatre Machine’ with Keith Johnstone. This is seminal work that has formed the basis of current practice in theatre and television. Roddy’s work in group settings for personal, professional or creative development is wide and varied including the educational context (RADA and the National film school), social context (drugs rehabilitation, prisoners, psychiatric units) as well as the business context. (He has worked in corporate settings with top consultancy firms in UK.) Roddy is also well known for his theatrical and TV roles (appeared in The Goodies, Rowan and Martin’s s Laugh In, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s s Not Only But Also, Peter Cook’s The Establishment (London and New York) and was winner of Theatre of the Year Award for Best Comic New York). He was the voice of Edgar in Walt Disneyıs The Aristocats. An early innovator at the Royal College of Art (alongside David Hockney and Peter Blake) he was one of the countryıs first ‘performance artist’ before it was a recognised art.