Robert Plowman is a playwright and collaborative theatre artist. His work has been presented across the United States and Canada. His work includes: The Matador, the audio installation folkloremobile, and The Route 19 Roadside Choir of Dead Babies Invites You To Visit “The Fountain of Youth” Museum & Giftshop. Plowman's play Radium City was published in the New Canadian Drama anthology series, and The Missing Link appears in the fall 2014 issue of Southern Theatre Magazine. His work has been developed at MacDowell, the Playwrights Theatre Centre Colony, and the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and he is the winner of the 2014 Getchell New Play Award. He holds an M.F.A. in playwriting as a member of the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University.
At MacDowell in 2011, Plowman completed the third draft of his haunted house play, Electricity Comes From Other Planets, and began work on a new, as-yet-untitled play. During his 2017 residency, he worked on writing final drafts of two plays during his residency: the Cold War Canadian screwball comedy The Mnemonist: A Tale of Espionage, and his diorama play The Route 19 Roadside Choir of Dead Babies Invites You to Visit the Fountain of Youth Museum and Giftshop.
