Rob Lauer

Rob Lauer is an award-winning playwright, theatrical and television director, actor and TV talk show host.

Rob’s first play, “Digger,” won the 1982 Mayhew Award; was produced to critical acclaim that same year, was published in 1988, and republished in 2013. In 1990, he became the first playwright to win both awards for drama at the Deep South Writers Conference. His satire “Tom & Penny’s Yard Party” (available from Broadway Licensing Global) won the Best Play of the Year Award, while his urban drama, “The Church Street Fantasy,” won the Paul T. Nolan Award.

In 2003, he was commissioned to write the historical musical, “First Freedom,” with Emmy-Award winning composer Sam Cardon. In 2013, the Cherokee Historical Association/Unto These Hills commissioned him to write the musical, “Chief Little Will.”

Rob's other professionally produced and published plays include the musical, “My Jo” (based on the works of Louisa May Alcott and available from Broadway Licensing Global) as well the comedy “Geeks & Gangsters” (inspired by the true story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—the Cleveland teenagers who, during the 1930’s, created Superman) and the critically-acclaimed musical, “A Southern Christmas Carol.”

Rob's New York City theatrical credits include three years as an actor with the acclaimed Prince Street Players and four years as Artistic Director of Sail Productions, Inc. writing Off-Broadway musicals based inspired by classic children's literature that toured nationally. From 2002 through 2005, he served as Artistic Director of “Swamp Gravy”—the State of Georgia's Official Folk-Life Play. He has taught playwriting at University of the Pacific and Western Wyoming Community College. As the 2015 Faculty Guest Artist at Colorado State University, he directed the university’s production of “The Hobbit,” which went on to win two Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival awards.

In 2003, he was commissioned to write the historical musical, “First Freedom,” with Emmy-Award winning composer Sam Cardon. In 2013, the Cherokee Historical Association/Unto These Hills commissioned him to write the musical, “Chief Little Will.”

Rob's other professionally produced and published plays include the musical, “My Jo” (based on the works of Louisa May Alcott and available from Broadway Licensing Global) as well the comedy “Geeks & Gangsters” (inspired by the true story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—the Cleveland teenagers who, during the 1930’s, created Superman) and the critically-acclaimed musical, “A Southern Christmas Ca

Rob currently lives in Virginia where he edits a regional magazine and produces/hosts two local TV talk shows.