Robert Lawson

Robert Lawson is an American playwright, director, composer, screenwriter and visual artist. His film, What Goes Up, co-written with Jonathan Glatzer and starring Steve Coogan, Olivia Thirlby, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon and Josh Peck, was released on May 29, 2009. The film was distributed by Sony Pictures, with a DVD release on June 16, 2009 by Sony Home Entertainment. Lawson is the author and composer of dozens of theater works, a number of which are published by Playscripts, Inc. and are regularly produced across the U.S., Europe and Asia. Among these are Hiroshima : crucible of light which has been produced in Singapore, London, Vancouver and Australia. NYC premiere was in 2009 by the Untitled Theater Co. 61 at Walkerspace. Texts have also appeared in American Writing, Poems & Plays and The Northern New England Review. He is the recipient of a Meet the Composer grant for his work on Leonardo’s Tank produced by Andy’s Summer Playhouse (NH) for which he was artistic director 1995-2007. Works in process include: Laws of Nature — feature screenplay based on Lawson's short story collection Geometric Cemetery in development with 1stAvenue Machine (NYC, LA, London), Andrew Geller - producer, starring Sam Huntington (slated for 2019/2020 production). Dream/State — development and pilot scripting for a television series based on Brian Keaney's trilogy. Goodman Pictures, Aaron Wiederspahn, Joe Goodman and Wojciech Frykowski, producers. (2018 option) The Ruins of Nicholas Raithe — currently developing a television series from an original story by Lawson. In process, with Sam Huntington. The Great God Sokolov — slated to direct feature film adaptation he has written with Karen Sunde of her play "To Moscow". Ashworth Productions (Canadian co-production - 2020). Previous work includes: Co-author (with Jonathan Glatzer) of Tyler’s Gap, a television project produced by Touchstone/ABC & Fox Television - Rob Bowman, director; David Duchovney, Executive Producer. Play commission (by co-author Marlin Fitzwater) entitled Empires Fall concerning the fall of Communism and the relationship between George H. W. Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev (staged reading at Ford’s Theater, D.C. 2011; subsequently at the Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M Univ., 2013). His series of interrelated short fiction pieces under the title Geometric Cemetery is available at Amazon.com and at the Toadstool Bookshops (NH).