Robert Cole
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Playwright, Screenwriter, Essayist, Poet, Critic, Broadcaster |
| Location | Sumiton, Alabama, United States |
| Introduction | Robert Cole is a dramatic writer, critic, essayist, poet, and broadcaster from Walker County, Alabama. He is the author of the Walstone/Walbridge County plays. His play CRY OF THE NATIVE CHILDREN and his translation of Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE are available from Eldridge Plays and Musicals and a volume of his plays is available from Holly Grove Press. Many of his pieces of non-fiction are published on his website-- www.walstone- county.com. He was a contributing critic to "Moon Beach Island," writer to "The Studio Exec," and currently co-hosts the podcast THE OLD MILL with R. Daniel Walker. He won the 1999 Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award in Playwriting and his plays have been honored as finalists or honorable mentions in prize contests awarded by the University of Arkansas, Northern Michigan University, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Alabama Writers' Forum, and the Horizon Theatre. After training as an actor, he studied playwriting with David Henry Hwang, Gladden Schrock, and Lee Eric Shackleford. He is a graduate of Athens State University (B. A., English; Kappa Delta Pi and Cum Laude honors) and Bennington College (B. A., Drama/Theatre). He lives in Sumiton, Alabama. |
| Interests | theatre, the American South, film, television, music, books, education, criticism |
| Favorite movies | 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Godfather, My Fair Lady, Heaven's Gate, JFK, M*A*S*H, Short Cuts, Amadeus, A Clockwork Orange, The Apartment, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, All the President's Men, |
| Favorite music | Country/Western, Contemporary Classical, Jazz, Classic Rock |
| Favorite books | Ulysses, The Grapes of Wrath, Possession, Where I'm Calling From, Dramatis Personae, Masters of the Drama |