Robert Axelrod
Type of Work Seeking:
Writers's Assistant
Showrunner's Assistant
Development Opportunities (Including Open Writing Assignments)
Staff in a Room (Staff Writer or Story Editor)
Credits:
Contributing Writer on BREAK, an original feature film for Starman Films in association with Netflix France
Writer on CBS DIVERSITY SKETCH SHOWCASE
Personal Highlights:
Writer/Creator of TUCKED, an original one-hour television project currently in development with Kapital Entertainment and Ivy Lion Productions (2x Tony Award-Winner)
Writer/Director of LIFELINE, an original dramatic feature film based on the award-winning play of the same name, currently in development with producers Chip Diggins and Eddie Rubin.
Writer/Creator of MONSIGNOR METH, an original one-hour television project, previously developed with Gratitude Productions.
2024 Warner Bros. TV Writing Fellowship
2023 Jewish Writers’ Institute Digital Storyteller Lab
2020 A-List Winner
2019 Humanitas New Voices Fellow
2019 CineStory TV Fellow
Playwright of DRY SUMMER, world premiere at Theatre NOVA
Playwright of LIFELINE, world premiere at The Road Theatre Comp
Representation:
Manager: Gavin Lurie, Zero Gravity Management
Learn More about Robert:
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Robert Axelrod is a gay Jewish writer, originally hailing from Michigan, whose work focuses on exploring the intersectionality of identity and culture. He is currently in development on an original television project with Kapital Entertainment and Ivy Lion Productions (2x Tony Award-Winner). Previous fellowships and labs include the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Writers Program, Humanitas New Voices Fellowship, CineStory TV Fellowship, Jewish Writers’ Institute Digital Storytelling Lab, and the Road Theatre Company’s Under Construction Playwriting Lab. Additionally, Robert is a previous winner of the A-List, an annual competition honoring the best work written by assistants in the entertainment industry. As a playwright, Robert’s work has been produced by IAMA Theatre Company, The Road Theatre Company, and Theatre Nova. In addition to his professional and creative pursuits, Robert has been a volunteer with The Trevor Project, the nation’s leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention service for LGBTQ youth.
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MONSIGNOR METH - (One-Hour Television/Pilot)
A closeted gay priest, widely regarded as one of the most respected clergymen in the Catholic Church, is tasked with saving a failing parish. But when his newfound meth addiction leads him to running a transcontinental drug trafficking operation, he soon winds up needing to save both the parish and himself. Inspired by real events.
REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY - (One-Hour Television/Pilot)
Following the sudden mysterious disappearance of one of his patients, an obsessive guilt-ridden therapist starts his own investigation into what happened by using his former sessions as clues.
THICK SKIN - (One-Hour Television/Pilot)
A Jewish widower must balance the difficult realities of managing his multigenerational family’s struggling tattoo shop in downtown Chicago, filled with his three strong-willed children and their own complicated lives, all while grappling with the impact of his ailing Holocaust-surviving father.
NICE JEWISH BOYS - (Half-Hour Television/Pilot)
A group of gay Jewish millennials in Los Angeles attempt to navigate their way through life, in an age where they find allegiance with both their rabbis and RuPaul. As they stumble through their careers, relationships, and religion, they’ll be met with goys, gays, and a whole lot of oy veys.
+ ONE - (Half-Hour Television/Pilot)
After receiving news of a surprise pregnancy, a struggling artist decides to enlist the help of her gay best friend to raise the child.
HOPEFUL SOUL - (Feature)
A Black widowed gospel singer helps a troubled white orphaned teenager find refuge in the Black community and the culture of gospel music, as the racial tensions of 1967 Detroit escalate into the historic Detroit race riots.
LADY G - (Feature)
Known among Washington D.C. gay sex workers as “Lady G,” Senator Lindsey Graham has spent decades as one of the most popular leaders within the Republican Party. This is the unauthorized story of real-life Republican senator Lindsey Graham…and the blackmail that’s been hanging over him his whole career.