Robin French (born 1978, Birmingham) is a playwright, television writer and songwriter living in London.

Contents 1 Background 2 Career 2.1 Theatre 2.2 Television 2.3 Music 3 References

[edit] Background

French was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Selwyn College, Cambridge University where he graduated with first-class honours in 2001.^[1]

While at Cambridge he was active in the Cambridge Footlights^[2] and won two play-writing competitions.^[3]

[edit] Career

[edit] Theatre

French's first play, Bear Hug^[4][5][6][7], won the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme and was subsequently produced at the theatre. It has since had productions in Italy, Germany, Ireland^[8] and Poland. His second play, Gilbert is Dead^[9] is due to be performed in Hoxton Hall in Shoreditch, London, in November 2009. The Guardian listed French as one of the UK's "young stars in the ascendant" in 2005.^[3]

[edit] Television

French has also written for television. He has twice been awarded the title of Hotshot (representing UK writing) by Broadcast Magazine (2006 and 2008^[10]). French has written with Evening Standard theatre critic Kieron Quirke.

French was writer and script editor for two series of BBC’s Man Stroke Woman, co-creator of US sitcom Roommates (ABC Family), and co-creator and co-writer of ITV2's mystery dramedy Trinity.

[edit] Music

French spent several years in the music industry as bassist of UK band Mr Hudson and the Library.^[11] French played under the alias Maps Huxley, and co-wrote the song "One Specific Thing" from the album A Tale of Two Cities^[12]. He left the band to pursue writing in September 2007.

[edit] References