Robert Farrar's biog/Contact me

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I had my first play performed on TV when I was sixteen, on a programme called Childsplay, hosted by Morecambe and Wise. As a teenager I wrote and produced plays at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

In my twenties I was singer and co-songwriter with the rocktronica band The Mystery Girls, who were signed to A&M Records, toured and played BBC TV's Old Grey Whistle Test.

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), which won the Audience Award at the London Film Festival; 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, both of which played at film festivals around the world.

My latest play Relax recently had its first run at the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon in 2010. The setting, a gothic B&B surrounded by a thick fog, was a reference to my grandfather Kenneth Horne's 1942 West End comedy Love In A Mist.

From 2009 to 2010 I attended a two-year Sex-and-Spirit training with the pioneering German bodywork group Gay Love Spirit. During this time I worked as a bodyworker and conceptual artist, a period documented in the page entitled "Anatole Gribsby".

In autumn 2010 I met songwriter and guitarist Dominik Strutzenberger and we formed Hi Class Music, a new band in which I return to some of the musical and performance ideas I first developed with The Mystery Girls. The programme for 2012 is to shoot three videos and release a CD.

I live in Berlin.

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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