Robert Charles Gompers
Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter
Works
"The new novel that's Tales of the City meets
Mean Girls and takes place throughout Provincetown."
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter
and bleed."
- Ernest Hemingway
“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about
having it heard.”
- Allen Ginsberg
"As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and the audience as well.
You inflict things on people."
- Tony Kushner
Bio
Photo credit: Clemencia Photography
Robert Charles Gompers is a novelist, screenwriter, poet, and award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced across America over the last 20 years.
His most recent play, The Long Ride Home, won Best Play at The Fresh Fruit Festival at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City.
His performance piece, Once Upon A Time, a tongue in cheek fusion of nursery rhymes and political affairs, won the top prize at the North Carolina University Performance Poetry festival.
The next year he returned with, Poetry Slam, a piece that playfully mocked hipster poets, the art of bad verse, and poetry competitions. Much to his surprise, he was awarded one of the top prizes.
With over 25 plays to his credit, highlights include Museum, an interactive retrospective of women in history, to being commissioned to create a theatrical parody of American Idol. His play, Explosive Park, dealt with homophobia and violence within the gay community, while Neurasthenia (a nervous breakdown) featured Mrs. Martha Bernays-Freud analyzing misdiagnosed cases of female hysteria by her husband "and world-renowned smarty pants, Sigmund."
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Mr. Gompers' weekly column on writing and inspiration is currently featured on the website and instagram platforms for The Writing Champions Project.
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He is presently finishing his fifth novel and adapting his four-book series, The Gory Guide to Dating as a television series.
In the Press
The ticket to The Ward of No Redeeming Qualities carries the phrase “an experience in two acts by Robert Charles Gompers.” And it certainly is an experience – one that is disquieting, and forceful.The thin line between sanity and insanity causes the viewer to cringe. Playgoers will talk about this riveting original work for some time.”
Rob Gompers’ Museum: A Her-storical Comedy” is an unpredictable play, interlaced with predictable characters making for an experience that runs hot. I must admit the experience left me inspired. Gompers is creating and producing original works in a town where this kind of thing can flourish. If you have the chance to see it, do so. You are guaranteed to go home talking
about it."
Vivian Sue Penn,
THE WILMINGTON STAR NEWS
Ingrid Jungermann,
ENCORE ARTS MAGAZINE
Sometimes theater “with a voice” works too well, howling loudly to a target audience. Sometimes, those shows serve as a reminder that, despite our differences in race, in choice, in gender, in prayer, we are one people and one species, like it or not. Sometimes – ideally and rarely – theater with a voice does both, shoving a specific agenda down everyone’s throat…while making it a pleasant experience. To see this in action, check out Losing Steam written by Robert Charles Gompers."
Scott Gold,
THE WILMINGTON STAR NEWS
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