Robert Lawson
Robert Lawson is a writer, director, composer, screenwriter & visual artist who has been on faculty at Franklin Pierce University for the last decade where he has created numerous original theater works - at times in collaboration with his wife, choreographer Sally Bomer. His music/theater work - …but the rain is full of ghosts - was performed at the Kennedy Center as part of the National American College Theater Festival (April 2003). Other free lance theater work includes a staged reading of Dominic Orlando’s Terror of the Physical Being for the MacDowell Colony’s Downtown series. He is the author of dozens of performance texts that have been produced in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Haven and at the Milwaukee Rep. His work has been published in American Writing and Poems & Plays, and he was a finalist/recipient of an artist’s grant from NH State Council on the Arts in 1999. Screenplays, in collaboration with writer/director Jonathan Glatzer: Safety Glass, optioned in 2000 by GoodMachine (NYC) and Industry Entertainment (LA); King Callow commissioned by Starboard Entertainment (LA); Fear Itself, currently in development.
Recent work includes direction and set design of The Magic Flute for the Granite State Opera - for which he also directed the 2001 production of The Barber of Seville; an ongoing series of workshops in Creative Process and film for the Donau University in Austria; and co-writing and producing an independent feature film - Safety Glass. Art projects include an art/science installation based on the Camera Obscura (whose year and a half run at the Historical Society in Peterborough ended in May 2004); another installation Recently Discovered : use unknown ran for half a year at the same Historical Society; and plans for the Museum of the 5 Senses - to be located in Peterborough - received seed money and are ongoing. |
