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BOB'S SCREENPLAY, BENEATH THE BADGE, WINS
ITS CATEGORY IN THE CANNES WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2024! |
Bob's screenplay, BENEATH THE BADGE, a crime/suspense thriller, has won its category in the 2024 Cannes
World Film Festival. The story follows a tough, young homicide detective who's hidden his extraordinary artistic
talent for fear of appearing less than the man he's expected to be, but then has his two worlds collide when a series of
deadly home invasions brings him into the world of a beautiful art gallery owner. The script has already garnered
plenty of previous accolades, including winning the Los Angeles International Film and Script Competition, the
Marco Island Film Festival Competition, and placing as a Finalist in several other competitions, including the
American Screenwriting Competition, the Carl Sautter Competition, among others. |
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BOB ADAPTING HIS NOVEL THE CROSS REPORTS: THE HARPER AFFAIR FOR FILM AND/OR TV |
Bob has begun work on adapting his own novel, The Cross Reports: The Harper Affair, for film. Released in 2020, the novel is the first in a series about scrappy investigative reporter Nick Cross and the stories he gets involved in. The Harper Affair is set in the seamy world of politics. "I'm writing it as a spec," Bob said, "but I also plan to adapt it as a one-hour episodic -- I think the concept and the character have potential as a multi-seaons series, with each season being a different story that Cross gets drawn into." The second novel in the series is already written and in galleys, so the series idea may have merit. |
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BOB'S PLAY, EHARMONYCS ADAPTED FOR FILM, SHOT, AND RELEASED |
EHarmonycs, a sharp and witty play about the modern-day politics and protocols off dating, was adapted by Bob for
film, and shot in Philadelphia, starring Kathryin Wylde and Johnny Fernandez. The play had received its World
Premiere in late 2022, starring Wylde, who financed the film herself. Bob was also asked to direct the film. "I've
directed before," Bob said, "and had a great time directing this. Having written it and adapted it myself, and having a
terrific crew, we were able to get it shot very quickly on a tight budget. My congrats to Kathryn on it." |
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BOB'S SCRIPT "MUTI" RELEASED AS "THE RITUAL KILLER" |
As things go in Hollywood, the original title for Bob's script, "MUTI" was changed by the studio to "The Ritual Killer",
and released March 22nd. It stars Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser, and Peter Stormare. It can currently be streamed
on Amazon Prime. |
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WORLD PREMIERE SET FOR BOB'S NEWEST PLAY |
CROSSING THE VEIL, Bob's newest full-length play, will have its World Premiere November 4-26 at the
Skinner Studio Theatre at Plays and Players in Philadelphia, one of the city's oldest and most revered
theaters. The play is a very personal and emotional one for Bob, as it was inspired by an occurance at his
own father's viewing. The story:
On the day of his funeral, a recently deceased man’s spirit finds itself in the funeral parlor viewing room
with his wife, son, and daughter – from whom he’s been estranged for eight years – as each comes to pay
their last respects and say their final goodbyes. As he tries to interact with them, he realizes that they cannot
see or hear him, though he has no trouble doing either with them. As the afternoon progresses, what he learns
from each of them is not at all what he remembers of his life. The play is an intriguing blend of dialogue within
monologue as the characters are faced with the triumphs and shortcomings in each of their lives as they relate
to the departed man, leading them all to an uplifting coming-to-terms with the love they have had for one
another. |
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SEVERAL OF BOB'S SHORT PLAYS TO BE PRODUCED AT PHILADELPHIA'S FRINGE ARTS FESTIVAL |
Bob not only writes full-length plays, feature films, and long fiction...he also writes short plays, and 7 of them will be featured in FRESH INK SHORTS, an evening of short plays that will be a feature production as part of Philadelphia's Fringe Arts Festival in September. Bob will also be directing the show, which can be taken in at the Skinner Studio Theatre at Plays and Players in Philly. Production dates are September 8-18 for the show. |
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BOB'S SCRIPT "MUTI" SET FOR RELEASE BY LIONSGATE |
With shooting completed, Bob's feature film,"Muti" is finishing up post-production and will be
released by Lionsgate this summer. The dark story stars Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser, and Peter
Stormare...and...in a pivotal scene, you'll also see Bob himself in a supporting role as a Police Forensics Tech. |
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BOB'S SCRIPT "MUTI" IN PRODUCTION |
Bob's feature film script,"Muti" is currently shooting in Jackson,
Mississippi, starring Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser, and Peter Stormare. The film is being
produced by Joe Lemmon, Bret Saxon, and Richard Salvatore and directed by George
Gallo. The story centers around a police detective about to retire who gets drawn into
a grisly series of killings connected with the horrific practice of Muti Medicine, a centuries-old
belief system that requires ritualistic killings believed to provide power and success. |
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BOB CONTINUES WORK AT SUNDANCE ON EPISODIC PILOT |
Bob continues to work on his episodic TV streamer, SOULMATES (renamed from
THE PROMISE). The concentration now is on the Pilot episode, "Recognition". Bob is
working with Thania St. John, who has written and/or produced two dozen top television
shows to date, including LOIS AND CLARK, ROSWELL, CHICAGO FIRE, COVERT
AFFAIRS and PROJECT BLUE BOOK. "Writing for streaming TV is a completely
different animal from films," Bob said. "I couldn't ask for a better mentor than Thania." |
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BOB ACCEPTED INTO SUNDANCE COLLAB'S TRACK FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EPISODIC TV SERIES |
Robert Redford's Sundance Institute's Collab wing -- a special platform designed to help writers
filmmakers, producers, and directors develop their ideas into viable projects -- recently accepted
Bob into their Masterclass on "TV Writing: Core Elements" track, where he will work with Sundance
personnel to develop and write the pilot episode of one of his original ideas. Bob will be working on
adapting his screenplay, THE PROMISE, into a 10-episode streamer. He'll be working with mentor
Jennifer Glickman, who has worked as a writer and executive producer on such shows as
CAROLINE IN THE CITY, THE BIG BANG THEORY, NED AND STACY and MELISSA AND JOEY.
"We're just getting started," Bob said, "but already you can see the possibiliities...the whole Sundance
organization is remarkable -- aimed solely at creative collaboration. It's really exciting." |
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BOB WILL DEVELOP HIS OWN SCRIPT, "PERFECT", FOR
VOYAGE MEDIA |
As it turns out, Voyage Media, who recently asked Bob to join their list of writers, really liked
Bob's own script, PERFECT, and have signed a shopping agreement with Bob and will have
him rewrite and further develop the script under the eye of producer Robert Mitas, their head of
original productions. "Robert and I got along great," Bob said. "He loved the script and he had
some great ideas and notes on how to make it even better." Bob is currently hard at work
on the rewrites for PERFECT. |
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BOB ASKED TO WRITE FOR LA'S VOYAGE MEDIA |
Following a series of pitch and evaluation sessions with Los Angeles-based prodco, Voyage
Media, Bob has been asked to join a cadre of writers for hire to work on various projects that
Voyage will have in their pipeline going forward. "They're a great group of people with a
very specific model for finding new writers and material and getting it on a track toward
production," Bob said. "They liked my writing, and I liked their mindset...a good match."
Bob's first project for Voyage will be upcoming this year. |
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DECIMOS TO PUBLISH A COMPILATION BOOK OF BOB'S SCREENPLAYS |
It has been announced that Decimos Publishing will publish a compilation of four of Bob's feature film
scripts in October, 2019. Last year, Bob won the prestigious Decimos award for his short story,
THE SALVATION OF THERON CONNOR, and publisher JD Adler pursued a further relationship with Bob
in the form of publishing his works. FOUR SCREENPLAYS will be their first collaboration. |
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BOB OPTIONS HIS SCREENPLAY "COMMUNITY PROPERTY" |
Bob has optioned his screenplay, COMMUNITY PROPERTY to IdeaBlizzard Productions and
producer Paula Landry. The romantic comedy centers around an aging rock'n'roll guitar god
and a single-mom classical guitarist who are both swindled into buying an old estate outside
of Philadelphia. Not knowing they've been swindled, they each move into the estate on the
same night -- she with her son and doting grandmother, he with his entourage of bandmates,
hangers-on, groupies, and partiers. Let the fun begin. Landry and her company plan to
produce the film for one of the major streaming services. |
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BOB SCORES IN PRESTIGIOUS LORIAN HEMINGWAY COMPETITION |
Bob's powerful short story, THE SALVATION OF THERON CONNOR, pulled down Honorable Mention
in the prestigious international writing competition overseen by Lorian Hemingway, Ernest's granddaughter.
The 2018 competition drew 704 entries from around the world, including some of the most lauded writers
in fiction. The story was also recently publised in the literary magazine DECIMOS. |
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BOB OPTIONS HIS SCREENPLAY "MUTI" |
Bob has optioned his screenplay, MUTI, to Black Diamond Films and President/
Producer Joe Lemmon and his partner, cinematographer Anderzej Sekula.
Lemmon has worked as a producer, production designer, and art director on
dozens of films. Sekula has been Quentin Tarantino's cinematographer for
years. Both just wrapped shooting the new John Travolta/Morgan Freeman
drama, THE POISON ROSE, and are now in pre-production on MUTI. |
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BOB'S NEWEST PLAY, "UNDER THE HUNTER'S MOON", DEBUTS |
Bob's s newest stage play, UNDER THE HUNTER'S MOON had its World Premiere at the professional
Red Barn Theatre in Key West, July 3-21 and was met with raves from both audiences and critics. The
play centers on the fictionious Robert Grey, who we learn has been a top Hollywood star for the past
35 years. In Gilead, Maine to shoot his newest film Grey unexpectedly runs into Nancy Benham, his
long-lost first love in the tiny Gilead General Store. The chance meeting sets off a crisis in Robert's life
as he questions the value of what he's done with his life since he and Nancy broke up so long ago.
"...a luxurious experience...laced with delicious spirit...tight and terrific..." --KONKLife Magazine |
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"BENEATH THE BADGE" PLACES IN SUNDANCE'S TRMS COMPETITION |
Bob's s dramatic feature screenplay BENEATH THE BADGE has placed as a Semi-Finalist in
Sundance's Table Read My Screenplay Competition. One of the top scripts out of over
4000 entries,BENEATH THE BADGE will now circulate among the prodcos who mine the
prestigious Sundance competition to find scripts that fit their development slates. You can read the script
here on this site under "Screenplays". |
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BOB COMMISSIONED TO WRITE 2 PLAYS FOR NATIONAL FESTIVAL |
For the third year in a row, Bob has been invited to write two plays for the prestigious national One
Minute Play Festival's South Florida edition. Last year, his plays MYTH...OR NOT and WINDS OF
CHANGE were enthusiastically received in the production at the theater facility at the Deering Estat
in Miami. The year before, it was HARMONICS and VICTIMS. This year's plays are FINAL APATHY
and GOVERNANCE DU JOUR. The production will be January 14th and 15th at the Deering Estate
in Palmetto Bay in Miami. |
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BOB PLACES UNPRECEDENTED 5 PLAYS IN AUSTIN COMPETITION!
In the inaugural playwriting competition at the prestigious Austin Film Festival
Screenwriting and Playwriting Competition for 2017, Bob submitted five of his
recently-produced plays. ALL FIVE PLAYS were judged to move on to the Second
Round of the competition! The blind judging of the competition means that different
readers were assigned to read separate plays and judge them on a slate of criteria that
includes plot, characterization, dialogue, structure, theme, and more. Each reader
gives the plays they read a score, and the top 20% of the scoring plays move on
to the next round. The fact that ALL FIVE of Bob's plays moved on to the next round is
quite an achievement for one writer. |
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BOB'S PLAYS TO BE PUBLISHED IN APRIL! |
BOB BOWERSOX FIVE PLAYS, the first compilation of Bob's work for the stage will be
published in April. Included in the book are Bob's hit plays, MOMENT OF GRACE, THE
SIGNATURE OF FEAR, THE RETURN, and PERSON OF INTEREST. Also included is
THE ALMOST END OF THE END FOREVER, which was chosen for the Broadway Black
List -- One of the Ten Top Unproduced Plays of 2016 by Broadway producer Ken
Davenport's Davenport Theatrical Enterprises. The book is available on Amazon. |
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TWO OF BOB'S PLAYS IN PRESTIGIOUS PLAY FESTIVAL IN JANUARY |
Bob has received notification that two of his short plays -- MYTH...OR NOT and WINDS OF CHANGE --
will be presented at The One Minute Play Festival at the Deering Estate in Cutler -- the top national short
play festival in the country. The festival takes place Saturday and Sunday, January 14th (8pm) and 15th
(3pm and 7pm), 2017. The public is welcome. For more information, visit the Deering Estate website at deeringestate.org. |
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ALMOST END OF THE END FOREVER Makes Broadway Black List! |
Bob was notified this month that his intelligent and comic fantasy, THE ALMOST END OF THE END FOREVER,
was chosen for this year's Broadway Black List, producer Ken Davenport's list of the Top 10 Unproduced Plays
of 2016. The play revolves around the iconic characters of Life and Death and what happens when Death
decides that he doesn't want to continue handling the job he's had since the beginning of time. The Broadway
Black List is sent to all producers, theaters, and associated personnel in the hopes that it will find a home for
production. Davenport has become a force in Broadway production over the past several years, producing
such hits as "Godspell", "It's Only A Play", "Kinky Boots", and "Spring Awakening", among others. He was also
just designated sole representative in North America for all of Andrew Lloyd Webber's properties here. "Ken's
always been supportive of my writing," Bob said, "and I'm honored that he's included my play on this year's Black List." |
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THE RETURN Opens November 1st |
Bob's newest play, THE RETURN, opens it's World Premiere at the Red Barn Theatre in Key West, FL
on November 1st. Produced by Bob's TheatreXP, and directed by him, the play will run 3 weeks. It stars a
solid group of actors who have appeared in Bob's previous plays, including Tony Konrath,
Tom Murtha, Karl M. Stahl, Melody G. Moore, and Vanessa McCaffrey.
The play centers on venerable WNN news anchor David Steele, who has been the most trusted name in
television news for over 35 years. But on this particular night, David announces live on the air
that he is, in fact, not who he has purported to be, but is actually the returned Jesus Christ of
Nazareth (yes, THAT Jesus Christ). Needless to say, all hell breaks loose....so to speak...
Look for the script of THE RETURN to be posted on this website once the World Premiere run has
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Bob To Teach Screenwriting |
The Studios of Key West, a comprehensive arts organization in Key West, has announced that Bob will
teach his Introduction to Screenwriting course in February and March of 2017. Based on his Masters
studies at UCLA and enhanced by his experiences working with top dramaturgs who have influenced
his own writing, Bob will take 10 students through an 8 week course on the basics of the very specific
craft of screenwriting. If you're near Key West and would like to participate, contact The Studios of Key
West at 305-296-0458. |
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PERSON OF INTEREST in Belgium! |
Bob's intense noir play, Person of Interest was produced at the prestigious Theater Hoger Streven in
Ghent, Belgium in early May. The play was translated into Flemish and received a showcase production. |
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