Rob Hayes

Playwright, Writer

+44 207 908 0977

About Rob Hayes

Rob currently has feature projects in development with Film4, Escape Plan, Minor Realm, Range, Moonriver, Seven Stories, Lab Brew and Co-created Media, and TV projects in development with Eleven Films, Emanata, and Fearless Minds.

As a playwright, Rob won the Tom Erhardt Award in 2013 for Most Promising Playwright and was shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum and the Royal Exchange Theatre Hodgkiss Award with director Ned Bennett. Rob is an alumnus of the Royal Court Writers’ Studio Group and the Super Group and was also a member of the Soho Theatre Writers’ Hub.

TV

- Production
- Company
- Notes
- STAGS
- Eleven Films / Paramount Plus
- 1 x 60' episode
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian
- CHEWING GUM
- E4
- Script Consultant and Writer Of Additional Material

Film

- Production
- Company
- Notes
- MONDAY
- Faliro House/DJ Films/Automatik
- Directed and co-written by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and starring Denise Gough and Sebastian Stan, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2020, followed by a global day & date release.
- GRETEL AND HANSEL
- MGM/Orion/Automatik
- Directed by Oz Perkins, had a wide US theatrical release
  Staring Sophia Lillis
- THE KITCHEN
- DMC / Netflix
- Stroy Consultant. Directed by Daniel Kaluuya & Kibwe Tavares
- HIYA JANICE
- Far Out Pictures
- Writer and Director
  Official selection for London's Fright Fest
- NEW GODS (Short Film)
- Selected for New York Film Festival 2016 and Leeds International Film Festival 2016, and was later broadcast on RTÉ.

Theatre

- Production
- Company
- Notes
- THE DIABOLIC BANQUET
- Contact Theatre, Manchester
- A BUTCHER OF DISTINCTION
- King's Head Theatre, London
- STEP 9 [OF 12]
- Trafalgar Studios, London
- THIS WILL END BADLY
- Pleasance, Edinburgh/Southwark Playhouse, London
- AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS WITH ANIMALS I’VE FUCKED
- Edinburgh Festival