Rob Hoad studied Theatre Arts in Adelaide with Off-Broadway, Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Adelaide Fringe founder Frank Ford. Rob moved to Darwin in 1990 and has been an eclectic freelance performing artist and educator throughout the NT ever since. From actor with Darwin Theatre Company and Brown’s Mart Theatre to Stilt-walking clown, international street performer, director of ‘Darwin versus Matilda’, award winning comedian, poet and short filmmaker as well as songwriter and the notorious ‘Barry Brown’ in ‘Barry Brown and the GetDown’, Rob’s bold adaptability makes him ‘ready for anything’, including touring Europe with shows in Edinburgh Fringe as part of the madcap ‘Alice Springs Desert Patrol’. He grew up on a farm where “if there’s a job to be done, you just get stuck in and do it!"