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ROBERT LAWSON
Nationality: USA
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Robert Lawson is a writer, director, composer, screenwriter, and visual artist. Recent work includes: co-author (with director Jonathan Glatzer), co-producer, and 2nd Unit Director for Safety Glass -- an Indie feature with Steve Coogan, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon, Josh Peck, Max Hoffman, and Olivia Thirlby, slated for 2009 release; co-author (with Glatzer) of Tyler's Gap, a television project produced by Touchstone/aBC and Fox Television -- David Duchovney, executive Producer; a commission by NGN Productions (Vancouver) for the screenplay Dancing in the Dark, slated for production in 2008; author of Hamlet: 7 rooms, produced by the emergence Theater Co. in La (2008). Other premieres of his writing include: Tabula Rasa, a music/Theater piece about autism -- in New York at the Neuro Fest festival of new work; the architecture of Sight at the Chocolate Factory in Queens; Pandora's Box: a vaudeville in New York; . . .but the rain is full of ghosts, a music/Theater work he also directed, at the Kennedy Center as part of the National aCTF Festival. Directing premieres include: elodie Lauten's minimalist opera the Death of Don Juan at Franklin Pierce University, where he is on faculty, the video rendition of which was screened in New York at the 2008 "Op on Screen Festival"; direction and set design for the Magic Flute for the Granite State Opera; direction and text for Kuhfangfederblech at the Festsalle in Vienna, austriA. He conducts an ongoing series of workshops in Narrative Strategies, Framing & abstraction using digital media at Donau Universitat in Krems, austria for the Dep't of Telecommunications, Information and Media (since 2002). He is the recipient of a Meet the Composer grant for his work on Leonardo's Tank, which premiered at Andy's Summer Playhouse, an experimental Theater in New Hampshire where professionals work with young performers, for which he was artistic director from 1995-2007. His performance texts have been published in American Writing, Poems & Plays and the Northern New england Review. His plays are published by Playscripts, Inc.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Architecture Of Sight Byline: Amanda Danger Hiroshima: Crucible Of Light Kid Sniff And the Ticking Clock Passage, TheArchitecture Of Sight
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text by Robert Lawson, music by the popular Alt-rock band Uncle Moon, directed And choreographed by Henry Akona
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Chocolate Factory, NY 2005
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the Chocolate Factory and High Fidelity Theater
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Top of PageByline: Amanda Danger
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Big city reporter amanda Danger needs some spark, a little quark to get her out of her funk. Who cares that she has a collection of Pulitzers? She wants to cover something new! What amanda wants, amanda gets when her editor sends her to Venice in search of the key to immortality and true love. against a 1940s-ish backdrop, this wild adventure is packed with crazy language, unexpected cameos, a klutzy rival reporter, and a Noir style that just won't quit.
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Andy's Summer Playhouse (Wilton, Nh, United States) 1997
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100-110 min Noir/Comedic action-adventure
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Male: 9 Female: 9 Other: 9 males, 9 females, 12 either (12-40 actors possible: 6-20 males, 6-20 females)
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Top of PageHiroshima: Crucible Of Light
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Fictional and historical figures cross paths in this fragmented tale of the birth of the atomic bomb, its first test in Los alamos, and the subsequent bombing of Hiroshima. Incorporating elements of Japanese Bunraku puppet theater -- as well as history, mythology, literature, and parody -- Hiroshima: crucible of light weaves together a story of fear and dark humor, creating a fractured, multimedia look at one of the most dangerous tightropes humankind has ever walked.
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1st Produced:
Franklin Pierce College (Rindge, Nh, United States) 1996
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Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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75-90 min Drama (with comedy)
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Male: 6 Female: 6 Other: 6 males, 6 females (8-36 actors possible: 4-28 males, 4-28 females)
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Top of PageKid Sniff And the Ticking Clock
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Intrepid young Ruby deLuna and her friends have banded together to save her filmmaker Father Don from the paranoid schemes of Senator McCarthy and the FBI -- so he can continue directing their favorite action adventure serial, Kid Sniff and the Ticking Clock! In the meantime, Ruby's scientist mom is baking up atomic recipes in the kitchen and the blacklisted Kid Sniff actors get involved in Ruby's fight. Finally, Don stands up for what's right and J. Edgar Hoover and the giant computer UNIVaC are submerged when their secret Lab (located under the reflecting pool in Washington, DC) springs a leak in this thrilling McCarthy-era adventure.
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Andy's Summer Playhouse (Wilton, Nh, United States) 2002
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100-110 min action adventure
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Male: 8 Female: 8 Other: 8 males, 8 females, 12 either (15-66 actors possible: 8-36 males, 7-30 females)
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Top of PagePassage, The
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This uniquely crafted reworking ofMoby Dick is more a poetic fantasia than literal adaptation of the familiar characters and themes from the classic work. With an array of songs, contemporary humor, and the weaving of various myths, a group of whalers set off on an epic hunt. But once on the water, the obsessed Captain ahab steers them on an entirely different course. In this tale of blind devotion and sacrifice, where will the new path lead this loyal crew?
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1st Produced:
Franklin Pierce College (Rindge, Nh, United States) 1999
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Genre:
75-85 min Play/Drama
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Male: 7 Female: 7 Other: 7 males, 7 females (8-38 actors possible: 4-19 males, 4-19 females)
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