Robert Evans (writer)

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Robert Evans is a playwright and actor born in South Wales in 1977. 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.

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 the BBC 2W channel in 2004.

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 BBC2W 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 ONE Wales drama Belonging, a 30' pilot episode of his new sitcom 'Third Time Lucky' for BBC ONE Wales and 4 episodes of the Belonging Radio spin off series for BBC Radio Wales.

Evans is also currently part of the writing team for the new Radio 4 sketch show Recorded for Training Purposes.