Robert never wanted to do anything other than act. After a school and university career packed full of performances, he stepped into the real world, aiming to see his name in lights, and created Labyrinth Theatre. But then a friend gave him a book to read, claiming it would make an excellent play. He read it, decided to adapt the book and wrote the script in a month whilst selling theatre tickets via the phone for a leading West End company. He hasn’t looked back as a writer since.
His writing has taken him in many different directions, from stage to radio to screen to more recently co-writing the ITV Mobile soap The Gym, and he thoroughly enjoys every experience and looks forward to a great deal more. Rob is currently writing a screenplay entitled AFRICAN ICE for Bedlam Productions, producers of the Oscar and Bafta winning ‘The King’s Speech’
Robert lives with his wife and children who are, by his own admission, amazing.
MULTI-MEDIA
BBC Jam
Copy for BBC Jam History. Interactive material for curriculum.
RADIO PLAYS
- Consideration
Original Radio 4 Friday Play (Aired June 2006)
- The Big Bow Mystery
Adaptation for Radio 4 (Aired March 2006)
- From A to B
Original Radio 4 play (Aired November 2003)
STAGE PLAYS
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth
An energetic and inventive adaptation of the Jules Verne classic (available)
- Quality of Mercy
An atmospheric and highly charged play set in WW2-era USSR. (available)
- Pineapple
Premiers at the Arundel Festival, August 2006
Published by Samuel French 2010
- Jungle
Kipling inspired stage adaptation.
Time Out Critics Choice for five weeks.
- The King of Schnorrers
Stage adaptation of Zangwill Novel.
Two year, sell-out, countrywide tour.
Winner of the 2000 National Student Drama Festival Judges’
Commendation for Storytelling.
“A hurtling, exhilarating delight” - Metro.
SCREENPLAYS
- African Ice
Screenplay 2010
- Just
Screenplay about the Vilna Ghetto. Schindler’s List meets Bridge Over The River Kwai. (available)
- The Agent
Screenplay.
Romantic comedy. (available)
- African Ice (in progress)
OTHER
- Reintroducing Israel Zangwill
Half hour educational documentary, narrator Simon Callow. Also produced.
“Congratulations…It tells the story with wit and energy, and taught me a lot I didn’t know.” - John Richmond, Commissioning Editor for Channel 4. (available)
- Merely Players
Sitcom Pilot. Short listed in BBC’s Two Timing competition. (available)
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