Rob Young Email & Phone Number

Rob Young is an award-winning writer.His first feature, Miranda, starred Christina Ricci, sold in 22 countries and won the Audience Award (main prize) at London's Raindance Film Festival. He has since been commissioned to write original feature screenplays for BBC Films, Working Title, Filmfour, Helkon and Ruby Films. He has also been commissioned to write original scripts for the BBC, Channel 4, Radio 4, Aardman, Baby Cow, Sony, Carlton, Endemol, Ruby Films and Touchpaper TV. Rob was commissioned to write the first online play for the Royal Shakespeare Company, in association with Google. It appeared on 25 million tweets, trended 4th in the world and won two Lovie Awards (Internet Oscars).Rob's adaptation of Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize winning novella, The Old Man and the Sea, won the Award for Artistic Excellence at England's biggest arts festival. Rob has written 13 plays for the London stage and was a BAFTA Screenplay Judge. He was the Inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Sunderland University and Writer-in-Residence on the Chatham Placemaking Project, a £4m government regeneration initiative, in which 100 of his poems were built into the pavements of Kent."A fascinating playwright", The Times."What impresses most is Young's deft, funny and deep command of the contemporary idiom" The Evening Standard.Rob also works as an artist. He was commissioned to design a touring exhibition for the Cultural Olympiad and a series of art events in a folly for the Landmark Trust. Rob worked as an expedition artist and photographer in Pakistan, Tanzania and Chile. Rob was the Senior Press Officer at the UK's 2nd largest arts centre and worked for Corbis, then a small company privately owned by Bill Gates.Rob is former BAFTA Screenplay Judge, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Trustee of the Creative Learning Guild. As a Faculty Associate of NHS Research & Development North West, he currently helps NHS Leaders to communicate on a broad range of healthcare issues, from HIV to FGM.For further information see: http://robyoung.info

Listed skills include Writing, Theatre, Film, Radio, and 13 others.

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  Wimbledon School Of Art

  Theatre Design