Chris Ioan Roberts (born 24 April 1985) is an Australian-born actor, writer and director working in London.
Chris Ioan Roberts is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Bachelor of Dramatic Art, 2010) and is an alumnus of The Watermill Center, New York, where he worked with celebrated American avant-garde director Robert Wilson.
He began professional international secondment as Creative Associate under Giuseppe Frigeni at the Opéra national de Paris on Robert Wilson’s production of Madama Butterfly in 2011.
In review, his theatre work has been noted for its subversion,[2] shock humour and political undercurrent as well as for its highly formal and often chaotic aesthetic.
Roberts is noted for his international focus as a theatre-maker and has most notably collaborated with London's Ovalhouse, writing, directing and performing in his play Dead Royal in 2015 as Wallis Simpson and Diana Spencer which was re-commissioned following a 2014 work-in-progress season.