Robert Evans (writer)
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Robert Evans (born April 30, 1977) is a playwright and actor.
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[edit] Early Life
Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire in Southeast Wales, he graduated in English at Oxford Brookes University, trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and in 2001 began writing.
[edit] Play Writing
His first play, Leslie's Electric Video was produced by Sgript Cymru in 2002; Mary's in the Shed was produced and published by the same company in 2003. His TV comedy miniseries, The Watkins Report was produced by Bethan Jones and directed by Rhys Powys for BBC 2W in 2004.
[edit] BBC Wales to BBC1
In 2005, Evans’s comedy mockumentary series, Cynthia, was produced and directed by Gareth Gwenlan for BBC Wales. He was also commissioned to write an episode of Snapshots, a mini drama series he co-created for BBC 2W and a pilot for his sitcom, Spliced, for BBC One.
Also in 2005 Evans was commissioned to write a 30-minute version of Cynthia for BBC Wales and a 30-minute pilot of his new drama, The Retreat, for ITV Wales with Rhiannon Cousins.
More recently Evans has been commissioned to shadow write an episode of the popular BBC Wales drama Belonging, a 30' pilot episode of his new sitcom 'Third Time Lucky' for BBC Wales and 4 episodes of the Belonging Radio spin off series for BBC Radio Wales.
[edit] Radio 4
Evans recently joined the writing team for the new BBC Radio 4 sketch show Recorded for Training Purposes. He is currently writing for the hit BBC One sitcom Green Green Grass and Script Editing the new series of the award winning children's comedy Young Dracula (also for BBC One).
