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April, 2026 BOB UP FOR AUTHOR OF THE YEAR IN THE IMPACT BOOK AWARDS
In conjunction with his novel, DEADline, being named a Finalist in this year's Impact Book Awards, Bob has been named a Finalist for the Author of the Year Award from the same organization. As a Finalist, Bob has been invited to attend the gala awards ceremony in Los Angeles in October.
March, 2026 BOB'S NOVEL, DEADline, A FINALIST IN THE IMPACT BOOK AWARDS
DEADline, the first book in Bob's Nick Cross Reports series of commercial fiction novels in the crime genre, has been named one of the five Finalists in the prestigious Impact Book Awards in Los Angeles. The winner will be announced in October. The protagonist of the series is street-hardened investigative reporter Nick Cross, a writer driven to expose the truth, even when it costs him his safety, his relationships, and often his way out. The books are richly cast with characters right out of today's headlines, with each story unfolding at the pace of a man with a deadline, whose cynical eye and jugular instincts barely keep him one step ahead of those who are trying to stop him.
November, 2025
BOB'S GROWING FLOWERS ON THE MOON GETS ITS WORLD PREMIERE!
After scoring accolades at the Austin Film Festival Competition for a second year in a row, Bob's remarkable play, Growing Flowers on the Moon hit the stage for its premiere run. The play tells the story of an older woman who, on the night of the 50th anniversary of her fiance's death, is visited by a young man who believes himself to be the reincarnation of her long-dead lover. The show was mounted in a site-specific production at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, an 1859 home that has been preserved in its original condition. "The Parlor Room is perfect for the play," Bob says. "It looks just like the room I had in my mind when I wrote the play. It's intimate and will invite the audience right into the story." This was Bob's 7th World Premiere in the last 10 years.
November, 2025 BOB'S GROWING FLOWERS ON THE MOON SCORES A DOUBLE!
Bob's GROWING FLOWERS ON THE MOON, written as both a screenplay AND a play, scored a double accolade at the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, when it won Second Rounder Awards as both a screenplay and a play. It's the second time the play as received the award, and the first for the screen play.
October, 2025 BOB'S BENEATH THE BADGE HONORED IN TOP COMPETITION
Bob's screenplay, Beneath the Badge, was honored as a Finalist in the prestigious Creative World Awards, a top-twenty win out of nearly 10,000 entries. The accolade is added to a long series of wins or high honors the screenplay has garnered over the past several years. The story centers on a young homicide detective who tries to hide his extraordinary artistic talent for fear of appearing less than the man he's expected to be, but has his two worlds collide while trying to solve a series of deadly home invasions that draws him into the sphere of a beautiful art gallery owner who discovers his secret.
October, 2025 BOB'S STREAMER PILOT, MUTI, SCORES IN TWO COMPETITIONS
Bob's streamer pilot, MUTI, landed Semi-Finalist honors in two top competitions recently -- the ISA Fast Track Pilot Competition, and the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. Earlier in the year, the one-hour drama/horror pilot also scored as a QuarterFinalist in the Creative Screenwriting Awards. The series is centered around a hardened homicide detective who is facing an unwanted mandatory retirement date and is also haunted by the recent loss of his own daughter. He is pulled into a final case, racing against two clocks as he tries to stop a vicious ritualistic serial killer preying on children for profit who has taken another young girl for one of his horrific ceremonies. The MUTI pilot is also in the running for several other competitions set to announce mid-2026. Let's hope the winning streak continues!
April, 2024 BENEATH THE BADGE WINS AT CANNES WORLD FILM FESTIVAL!
Bob's screenplay, Beneath the Badge, has won its category in the very prestigious competition at the Cannes World Film Festival in Cannes, France. The script bested thousands of other screenplays from around the world and added to its impressive list of honors in dozens of other competitions over the last several years.
June, 2023 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."
March, 2023
BOB'S SCREENPLAY, MUTI, RELEASED AS THE RITUAL KILLER
The film of Bob's script has finally been released. It's taken over 5 years from first option to release. 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. Besides the writing credit on a major film with A-list stars, Bob was also given a small supporting role in the film. It can currently be streamed on Amazon Prime.
November, 2022 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.
August, 2021 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.
JULY, 2021 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."
JANUARY, 2020 BOB ACCEPTED INTO SUNDANCE'S EPISODIC DEVELOPMENT TRACK
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."
JANUARY, 2020 BOB TO DEVELOP HIS SCRIPT, PERFECT, FOR VOYAGE MEDIA
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.
AUGUST, 2019 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.
JULY, 2018 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.
JULY, 2018 BOB'S LATEST PLAY, UNDER THE HUNTER'S MOON, PREMIERES
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
DECEMBER, 2017 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 EstatE In Miami. The year before, it was EHARMONYCS 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.
SEPTEMBER, 2017 BOB DRAWS HONORS FOR UNPRECEDENTED 5 PLAYS AT AUSTIN FF
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.
NOVEMBER, 2016
BOB'S PLAY, LIFE AND DEATH, MAKES THE BROADWAY BLACK LIST!
Bob was notified this month that his intelligent and comic fantasy, LIFE AND DEATH (also titled, 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."
MAY, 2016
BOB'S PLAY, PERSON ON INTEREST, PREMIERES 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. In Flemish, it was titled VERDACHT!, which means "Suspected".