A Life With Words....
R. T. (Bob) Bowersox clearly remembers the first thing he ever wrote.
"I was seven or eight. It was summer, late in the day, and I was sitting on the hood of my father's 1954 white Buick, leaning back against the windshield. I was a sensitive kid around that time, and my mother had been gone all day and I was missing her, so I composed this elaborate poem to her, all in my head. Verse upon verse. I can't remember a word of it now, but I clearly remember its creation in great detail -- playing with the words and the rhymes, the rhythm matching the sound of the wind moving the wheat in the field across the street, the emotion fed by the heat coming off the car hood in the late afternoon sun."
Bob hasn't stopped writing since. His journey with words has carried him through several collections of poetry, hundreds of songs (several of which ended up on two albums he recorded in his 20's), a couple of novels, a bunch of short stories, a stint as a reporter and columnist for publishing giant Gannett/USA Today, founding a successful regional magazine and serving as its lead feature writer, a dozen movie scripts, and as many stage plays.
While Bob continues to work in each discipline, he's found the most success with his stage plays and screenplays. His last seven stage plays have been produced professionally on Equity stages, meeting with rave reviews from both audiences and critics. One play has been produced internationally at Theatre Hoger Streven in Ghent, Belgium, translated into Flemish. Three of his film scripts have been optioned by Hollywood -- with two produced and released in 2023, one starring Morgan Freeman and Cole Hauser -- and several other of his film scripts have been award-winners, including recognition in such prestigious competitions as the Cannes World Film Festival, the Nicholl Fellowships, the Austin Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Screenwriting Competition, the American Screenwriting Awards, both Project Greenlight competitions, the Big Break competition, the Carl Sautter Competition, and the Marco Island Film Festival, among others.
Bob received his BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from the University of Delaware, graduated from Gotham Writer's in New York with a concentration in both Screenwriting and Playwriting, and received his Professional Programs Masters in Screenwriting from UCLA. He currently resides and writes full time in Philadelphia.