Robert Farrar's biog/Contact me

As a playwright my main influences are Coward, Orton, Tennessee and Pinter. As a screenwriter my main influence is whoever's raising the money.

I had my first play performed on TV at the age of sixteen, on a programme called Childsplay, hosted by Morecambe and Wise, who interviewed me with some savagery. I have since written novels, stories, songs and work for radio, TV, cinema and stage, including the novel State of Independence, the screenplays The Man Who Knew Too Little (Warner Bros, 1997, starring Bill Murray) and Bedrooms and Hallways (1998); and, for the stage, Lovers From Hell (2004-5), Wild Fruit (2006), and Relax (2010). My work as director includes my adaptation of Shaun Levin’s The Smell of Asparagus Pee (in Lovers From Hell) and the short films Sunday Morning and Donut. A one-time pop pretender (as front-man for The Mystery Girls, signed to A&M records), I returned to live performance a few years ago, singing with Brighton-based cabaret combo The Desperate Ones. I have recently started writing songs again.

My latest play Relax, a full-length version of my one-act play Get The Guest in Lovers From Hell, recently had its first run at the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon - see the Relax page on this website for pics and reviews. The setting, a gothic B&B surrounded by a thick fog, was a nod to my grandfather's 1942 comedy Love In A Mist. I was supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation to develop Relax.

My screenplay Jane Austen Hand-Held is in development, with Carrie Fisher and Stephen Fry attached to star, and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato attached to direct.

Other writing projects include a new version of Donut (now 30 fattening minutes) and a TV series following the hallucinations of two men who unknowingly eat donuts spiked with LSD.

I enjoy blogging on this website, and will write a third novel when my spirit guides give me the signal.

I live in London.

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Snail mail can be addressed to me c/o Michelle Kass Associates, 85 Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0AA, United Kingdom.

Click here for an interview I recently gave about Relax

Click here for an interview I gave in 2005 about Lovers From Hell

Photo by Michele Martinoli