Robert Michael Oliver
Robert Michael Oliver, Ph.D., considers himself a Creativist. He has been involved in creative activity since the late 1960s. He, along with his wife, Elizabeth Bruce, and Jill Navarre, co-founded The Sanctuary Theatre in 1983. After earning his Ph.D., in 2005, he founded The Performing Knowledge Project, in partnership with Sanctuary. About that time, he also started reviewing theater in the DC area and over the next six years saw more theater than he experienced in the previous 30. He now co-hosts Creativists in Dialogue on Substack. His first book of poetry, The Dark Diary: in 27 refracted moments, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023, and he performs regularly on TikTok as the AI Prisoner.
