Robert Loper was born on 30 June 1925 in Olathe, Colorado USA. He was an actor, known for Joyride (1977) and An Innocent Love (1982). He was married to Loper, Shirley. He died on 7 July 2000 in Seattle, Washington USA.
(1953 to 1968) He joined the faculty of Stanford University in Palo, Alto, California and served as head of the drama department from 1963 to 1968. While at Stanford he founded the Stanford Repertory Theatre and was active in San Francisco's Actors' Workshop.
He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Colorado. He earned a doctorate in Elizabethan literature as a Fulbright scholar at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
Directing a play is a kind of communion, the sharing of a fictional struggle which illuminates the more chaotic struggles and obsessions of our day-to-day lives. In making us more civilized, less lonely, the theater can be teaching at its best.
