Robert Shearman

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Robert Charles Shearman (also known as Rob Shearman; 10 February 1970, Horsham, Sussex) is an English television, radio, stage play, and short story writer.

He is best known for his two-winning short stories, as well as his work for Doctor Who and his collaboration with Jarvis & Ayres Productions (Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres) which have resulted in six plays for BBC Radio 4, one in the station's regular weekday Afternoon Play slot, and one classic serial.

Education

Shearman was educated at Reigate Grammar School (where he was a student of David Walliams) and the University of Exeter. He appeared on stage at various productions at the University during this period.

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Career

Shearman, an established dramatic playwright, has performed with Alan Ayckbourn, appeared in a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and has received several international accolades for his work in theatre. Fool to Yourself, the 2004 Stephen Joseph Theatre Award-winning plays, appeared at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1997 and earned the inaugural Sophie Winter Memorial Trust Award, Easy Laughter, (Sunday Times Playwriting Award), Binary Dreamers, (Guinness Award for Theatre Ingenuity, in association with the Royal National Theatre). He was named resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter in 1993, becoming the youngest playwright to be honoured by the Arts Council in this manner, and he wrote a series of plays, including his controversial parody of God living in suburbia, which was later revived in London. Alan Ayckbourn's relationship with White Lies, About Colin, and Knights in Plastic Armour has been particularly fruitful, with White Lies, About Colin, and Knights in Plastic Armour being particularly popular.

Shearman was also encouraged to become a director for the theatre, largely reviving productions of his own work in Rome; in the 1990s, he directed Shaw Cornered, the outstanding international guest at the Old World Theatre Festival in Delhi, India; at that time. Big Finish produced seven of his best-known stage plays as Caustic Comedies in 2010.

His first television work was episodes of the 1950s-set rural drama Born and Bred, which was broadcast on BBC One.

Shearman was also responsible for the initial script for the second series of the BBC 7 show The Chain Gang: Picture This. In the Sony Radio Academy Awards' "The Competition Award" category, the series was given a Bronze. This time, Paper, Scissors, Stone, a continuation of The Chain Gang, was a thirteen-part drama in which Shearman benefited weekly from listener suggestions in shaping the story; this earned a Silver at the Sony Radio Awards.

His encounter with Doctor Who began with a BBV Audios, Punchline script in which Sylvester McCoy played the Dominie, a disguised version of the Seventh Doctor. This was written under the pseudonym "Jeremy Leadbetter" (the name of a character from the popular BBC sitcom The Good Life). Several audio plays for Big Finish followed by The Terror, The Chimes of Midnight, and Jubilee, all winning best audio drama in the Doctor Who Magazine polls of their respective years. Doctor Who short stories have been published in the BBC Books book The Story of Martha, which was released in December 2008.

For the 2005 series of Doctor Who starring Russell T Davies for the BBC, Shearman produced the television episode "Dalek." This was a re-working of the themes introduced in Shearman's earlier Big Finish audio play Jubilee, at Davies' request. In 2006, "Dalek" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, and it came in second place in terms of votes for its category. Shearman provided an audio commentary for the Doctor Who episode – Complete First Series DVD box set.

Shearman admitted he had been involved in the design of Series 5, but he later departed. Steven Moffat's invitation to return was open, but Shearman declined, citing shifts in his career and the series's higher profile.

Tiny Deaths, a collection of short stories by Comma Press in November 2007, was his first book, which was a collection of short stories. It was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Award and also appeared on the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award's longlist. It was named Best Collection at the annual World Fantasy Awards in November 2008. The National Library of Singapore selected one of the book's "No Looking Back" in 2009 as one of the Read's favorite stories. The author was flown to Singapore to speak and interview with Singapore's campaign, ensuring that the tale was published separately as a mini-book and distributed all over the region in English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil.

Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical was his second collection, and it was published in late 2009. It's a strange, darker book than the first that was nominated twice for this award and the Shirley Jackson Award, making Shearman the first writer to be nominated twice for this award. "The Hidden Story" was included in a special collector's edition, a tale about letters discovered inside books; each copy was handwritten by the author and included in envelopes inside envelopes to create a Russian doll effect.

In the same year, Mad Norwegian Press released Wanting to Believe, a book by Shearman that discusses The X-Files and its spin-off series (Millennium and The Lone Gunmen) in a critical manner. Shearman also worked with comedian Toby Hadoke in 2009 to watch and comment on every episode of Doctor Who from 1963 to David Tennant's final story. The results of the marathon Watch of Doctor Who by Mad Norwegian Press in three volumes: Running Across Corridors: Rob and Toby's Marathon Watch of Doctor Who. The first volume, which chronicles the 1960s, was released in 2010; the second volume, which covers the 1970s, was published in 2016.

"Half short stories, half novel" was released in June 2011, titled "All About So Special."

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