Robert Engels

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Job Title

Producer, Writer, Consultants & Advisors

Career Milestones

Directed off-Broadway plays (also one unsuccessful play, "Tykes" on Broadway)

Moved to Los Angeles after selling first screenplay; became writer (for HBO, Showtime, CBS)

Moved to New York; over six years appeared in over 200 commercials

Performed for two years in classical and modern stage productions in Minnesota

Regular roles in TV soaps "The Edge of Night" and "Another World"

1980

Appointed Associate Artistic Director of the Cricket Theater in Minneapolis (continued to work in Los Angeles and New York

1983

Directed Los Angeles Public Theater's "The Basement Tapes"

1987

Worked as story editor for CBS's TV series, "Wiseguy"

1989

Story editor for TV series, "Twin Peaks"