Robert Lawson is a writer, director, composer, screenwriter and visual artist. For the past decade, he has been Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse and High Fidelity Theater. He is also the author and director of dozens of performance texts that have been produced in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and various other venues. 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 (2003). His work has been published in American Writing, Poems & Plays and The Northern New England Review. Playscripts, Inc. is publishing The Passage, byline: Amanda Danger, and Kid Sniff and the Ticking Clock. Two recent Andy’s productions that he wrote have gone on to productions in New York: Tabula Rasa, a music/theater piece about autism (NeuroFest, January 2006) and The Architecture of Sight (Chocolate Factory, Spring 2005). Other recent work includes: directing the premiere of Elodie Lauten’s The Death of Don Juan (April 2005, Franklin Pierce College, where he is on faculty); writing High Fidelity’s premiere production Pandora’s Box: a vaudeville (NYC, Fall 2004); direction and set design for The Magic Flute (Granite State Opera); a staged reading of Dominic Orlando’s Terror of the Physical Being for the MacDowell Colony’s Downtown series; conducting an ongoing series of workshops in Creative Process and Film for the Donau University in Austria; and co-writing an independent feature film, Safety Glass, slated to begin shooting in late 2006 in Canada (Myriad Pictures). He is the co-author of a number of screenplays, in collaboration with writer/director Jonathan Glatzer, including Fear Itself, currently in development. He is in the process of creating a new theater work, The Architect of NoPlace, with director Kay Muehlmann, slated for 2007 production at the Landestheater in St. Pölten, Austria. He is a recent recipient of a 2006 Meet the Composer grant for his work on Leonardo’s Tank.