Rob Evans

Robert Alan Evans (born 14 March 1978) is a British playwright and theatre director who primarily writes for children and young people. and Penarth. He studied for an MA in English Literature and History at the University of Edinburgh before moving to Glasgow in 2000, where he began writing and directing professionally for theatre.

Career After working as Assistant Director at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh on Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke and Iron by Rona Munro, Evans was sent to the World Interplay conference in Townsville, Australia in 2003 by the Traverse. His first play, A Girl in a Car with a Man, It was performed in German at the Munich Kammerspiele in November 2005.

His work for younger audiences includes Pinocchio (2006); Kappa (2007); an adaptation of Ben Rice's short story Pobby and Dingan (2010); The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk (2010); and an adaptation of Barry Hines’ A Kestrel for a Knave (2011). Pondlife was also performed in Stockholm as Neandertalare (2011) and in Subiaco (2014). Other works include Peter Pan (2012) at the Sherman Cymru He co-created Tiger and Tiger Tale (2013) and Little Red (2015) with Natasha Gilmore and the dance theatre company Barrowland Ballet. In 2024, his adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Odd and the Frost Giants was performed at the Unicorn Theatre. His work in the UK has been published by Faber and Faber BBC Radio 4 broadcast his abridgment of A Patriot for Us by John Heilpern in 2006 and his radio play The Cracks in 2010.