Robert J. Gibbs

ROBERT J. GIBBS (Playwright) Rob has worked extensively as a writer, director, and actor. He is a four time Irene Ryan nominee and has performed as a member of the American Shakespeare Center's Torchbearer Touring Troupe. Rob co-wrote the plays King and Country and Footnotes which were performed at the 2004 and2005 University Wits Theatre Festivals in Staunton Virginia, for which he also directed the play Leggo by Jeremy Fiebig. In 2009 Rob co-wrote (with Rick Blunt) the one-man show Boatloads of Shame, which was performed in New York, Los Angeles, and Virginia. Staged readings of Rob's play Donnie and the Monsters have been produced at the Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works in Virginia and by Horse Trade Theatre Group in New York. In 2009 a full production of the play was performed at Studio Roanoke in Roanoke Virginia. In 2010 Rob co-wrote (with Whit Hertford) and directed the show I Can Do Pretty Ok All By Myself: The Bobbi Lynn Cooper Story, which was performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Hollywood. He is currently collaborating on a musical comedy about the life of Napoleon Bonaparte called< i>Vive L'Empereur!, which will premier in Los Angeles later this year. Rob holds an MFA in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama from Mary Baldwin College in association with The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton VA, and has trained in improvisational comedy with the Upright Citizens Brigade. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is writing and developing projects for film, television, and stage.

Shows participated in:
Donnie and the Monsters (2010 - 11) Playwright