Robert Forte Writer/Producer/Director
Robert Forte, from New Jersey, wrote, filmed, and co-produced a sitcom for television with Weller/Grossman called PSYDE BY SIDE and began producing original stage productions.
His first stage play, THE SPARKLE THAT IS ERNIE, premiered at South Coast Repertory Theater in August 1993, followed by HEADLINES at the Hudson Theater in February 1994, and DERRICK’S GHOST in 1995 at The Foundry Theater.
In 2001, Robert partnered with Shelby Phillips and Dan Watt, creating Dog Script Productions and produced their first original musical comedy entitled DRESS REHEARSAL with Book, Music, and Lyrics written by Mr. Forte which premiered at the Armstrong Theatre at the Torrance Cultural Center in September 2001.
In 2004 Robert sold a western drama screenplay, HARD RIDE, to Dana Allen Productions, had his bio/pic screenplay, MABEL, optioned with Tipped Hat Entertainment, developed two half hour sitcoms, JUST FURNITURE, mayhem in n a large furniture store, and THE INCLINED, based on the people working at the Inclined Plane in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Robert has six novels on Amazon, a 1940s private eye trilogy, THE WOMAN IN THE YELLOW DRESS, MAGENTA DAIRY, and WAR OF GHOSTS, THE U.S. PARTY, a political thriller, GUILTY EYES, a psychological thriller, SHUSTER, historical fiction, and coming in 2025, MADDIE ROSE, a children’s book, A TALE OF CHRISTMAS, a children’s book, and ZAR, a Russian mobster crime drama.
Robert has his own publishing company, Fifth Wind Publishing LLC., and is bringing his stage play comedy, THE NEIGHBORS HAVE A POOL to London in 2025 under his theatrical banner A318 Productions LLC.
Screenwriter/Loglines
THE ACTOR Motion Picture/Drama
A Los Angeles based female writer/producer making her first feature film begins an affair with one of her actors and discovers he is wanted for questioning in a triple homicide in New York City. Writer: Robert Forte
BREATH OF SILENCE Motion Picture/Psychological Thriller
A female FBI agent newly promoted to head her investigating team struggles to capture an elusive serial killer who’s victims are all successful wealthy professionals living a lesbian lifestyle. Writer: Robert Forte
CHILD’S CRY Motion Picture/Ghost Drama
A successful female novelist, nursing her failed marriage with alcohol purchase a new house and is confronted by the ghost of a little girl murdered there some twenty odd years ago. Writer: Robert Forte
CIVIL CONTEMPT Motion Picture/Drama
An innocent man’s life is completely destroyed when the FBI, the local New Jersey Police, and the Irish mob all go searching for the same unknown killer. Writer: Robert Forte
CLIFF STREET Motion Picture/Drama
A beautiful teenaged girl suddenly awakens from a two-year coma after a horrific car accident and realizes she has certain mental abilities high above the normal human being. Writer: Robert Forte
CLEAN MONEY Motion Picture/Drama
A man newly released from prison attempts to get back with his wife and daughter but struggles to stay on the straight and narrow. Writer: Robert Forte
DUPED Motion Picture/Comedy
Two financially struggling barbers are duped into robbing their local bank under the pretense of testing security measures created by an evil corporate bank auditor. Writer: Robert Forte
DUPED AGAIN Motion Picture/Comedy
Two barbers about to collect a small fortune from their secret investments are confronted by several convicts newly escaped from a Federal prison. Writer: Robert Forte
DOUBLE DUPED Motion Picture/Comedy
Two barbers and two convicts are forced by the Federal government to work together to bring down a terrorist group planning to blow up Las Vegas. Writer: Robert Forte
FADING IN Motion Picture/Romantic Comedy
A womanizing screenwriter being followed by a mysterious private eye falls head over heels in love with a cocktail waitress just as his agent gets him the writing deal of his life. Writer: Robert Forte
FATHERS AND SONS Motion Picture/Dark Comedy
A financially struggling father and son decide to rob their local bank and are pursued by a father and son police team. Writers: Robert Forte and Dan Carlsson
FINAL JUSTICE Motion Picture/Thriller
A woman enrolls her husband, a successful mystery writer, in helping her prove to the local police that their neighbor, a respected Judge, murdered his ex-wife and her lover and made it look like a murder suicide. Writer: Robert Forte
GHOST DANCER Motion Picture/Drama
A seasoned city Detective chief attempts to capture a mysterious killer who has mastered the American Indian’s mystical ability to Ghost Dance.
GUILTY EYES Motion Picture/Drama
A beautiful woman cleared of murder charges in the deaths of her wealthy husband and a young male intruder is stalked by her ex-boyfriend, a hard drinking police detective convinced of her guilt.
HARD RIDE Motion Picture/Western Drama
A young rancher rides out after five outlaws who have taken his baby niece. Writer: Robert Forte SOLD PROPERTY to DANA ALLEN PRODUCTIONS 2004
HOPMAN Motion Picture/Comedy
A down on his luck divorced band manager suddenly inherits a huge fortune and a Bavarian castle and moves there with his daughter and ex-wife and discovers a family secret that transforms his life forever.
MABEL Motion Picture/Bio Pic
The dramatic life and untimely death of silent screen star Mabel Normand. Writer: Robert Forte OPTIONED PROPERTY to TIPPED HAT ENTERTAINMNET 2012
MAN-SNAKE Motion Picture/Crime Drama
As a special FBI task force closes in, a serial killer truck driver sets up his driving partner to take the fall. Writer: Robert Forte
THE PLAN Motion Picture/Comedy
A young girl grounded because of poor grades, schemes to sneak out to the last dance of the summer season. Writer: Robert Forte
SECONDARY WITNESS Motion Picture/Drama
Two estranged sisters have to put aside their differences and work together when one sister is targeted by an international assassination group. Writer: Robert Forte
SECTOR D-18 Motion Picture/Science Fiction Drama
A small group of NASA engineers, fired twelve years ago, are suddenly all starting to turn up dead due to mysterious accidents.
SHUSTER Motion Picture/Western Drama
After his artist wife is mistakenly kidnapped by outlaws for ransom, a store clerk and the reformed town drunk claiming to be good with a gun, ride out to save her. Writer: Robert Forte
TALE OF CHRISTMAS Motion Picture/Animated Feature
A young girl creates havoc at the North Pole when she stops believing in Santa Claus. Writer: Robert Forte
THE US PARTY Motion Picture/Drama
A small group of people in 2032 disgusted with Congress and American politics decide to create a new party and run their candidate for President of the United States. Writer: Robert Forte
THE VOYAGE OF THE SARAH ANNE Motion Picture/Comedy
A retired school teacher buys a sail boat and takes his wife, his teenaged daughter, and a supposed veteran sailor to Hawaii. Writer: Robert Forte
THE WOMAN IN THE YELLOW DRESS Part One Motion Picture/Crime Drama
In post-World War II Los Angeles, a private eye hired by a beautiful woman to investigate her husband’s infidelity becomes the number one suspect in the man’s murder. Writer: Robert Forte
THE WOMAN IN THE YELLOW DRESS Part Two Motion Picture/Crime Drama
Rachel Stone Barbieri is on the run and Patrick Miles Atwater is committed to tracking her sown with the help of the LAPD and J Edgar Hoover’s FBI. Writer: Robert Forte
THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR Motion Picture/Comedy
A young Jersey mob boss and his beautiful girlfriend plan a huge wedding and a New York crime family plans his demise. Writer: Robert Forte
WATER STONES Motion Picture/Spiritual Comedy
A young couple unable to conceive find themselves miraculously pregnant with outrageous consequences. Writers: Robert Forte/Rafal Zielinski
ZAR Motion Picture/Crime Drama
Two New Jersey homicide Detectives get a second chance to bring down a ruthless Russian mob boss dealing in drugs and human trafficking. Writer: Robert Forte
STAGEPLAYS Written By Robert Forte
THE SPARKLE THAT IS ERNIE (A Play in Two Acts)
Eight dinner guests at a New Jersey condo are each offered one wish from a man claiming to be a modern-day Wizard.
One Set, A Two Story Condo in New Jersey with Snow Falling
HEADLINES (A Comedy in Three Acts)
A naïve girl fresh out of college with a journalism degree comes to work at her mean and despicable uncle’s newspaper, a big city rag called the Tattletale.
One Set, A Big City Conference Room
DERRICK’S GHOST (A Comedy in Three Acts)
A fifties era film agent tries to convince her once famous actor husband, now retired from making movies, to give her the rights to a screenplay he owns and in the process uncovers a dark family secret.
\One Set, An Office/Master Bedroom in 1950’s Beverly Hills
DRESS REHEARSAL (A Musical Comedy in Two Acts)
Music and Book Written by Robert Forte
A stage manager is reunited with an old love as he struggles to keep his panic-stricken director, cast, crew, and sets all running smoothly on the night before the big opening.
12 Moving Sets, 14 Songs, 7 Dance Numbers, 30 Dancers, Full Orchestra.
ON A STREAK (A Comedy in Three Acts)
A world class diamond thief living a posh life in a New Jersey Penthouse becomes the number one suspect of two New York City Detectives when a string of diamond thefts occur throughout the metropolitan area.
One Set, A High-Rise Penthouse Apartment overlooking the new York City Skyline
THE NEIGHBORS HAVE A POOL (A Comedy in Two Acts)
Four people sharing a getaway weekend out of the city, discover a dead body in the master bedroom of their upscale New York cabin.
One Set, A Two Story Stone and Wood A-Framed House
LIGHTS (A Comedy in Three Acts)
An Award-winning husband and wife screenwriting team take a meeting with two strangers who pitch an amazing story that transforms the two writer’s lives forever.
One Set, A Small Two Story House on The Jersey Shore.
SHOWTIME (A One Act Comedy)
A woman hires a hit man to kill her overbearing husband and the killer arrives to their apartment dressed as a circus clown.
One Set, An Upscale New York Apartment Living Room
THE LIMO RIDE (A One Act Comedy)
A couple discuss their failing marriage riding in a limo from the Las Vegas airport to their hotel.
One Set, Limousine Back Seat
Television Projects Written by Robert Forte
PSYDE BY SIDE (A Half-Hour Sitcom)
An older woman with psychic abilities comes to live with her best friend’s son, a young lawyer just starting out.
Pilot Episode and 13 follow-up Episodes
JUST FURNITURE (A Half-Hour Sitcom)
A divorced dad comes to Palm Springs, California and gets hired on as a furniture salesman.
Pilot Episode and 6 follow –up Episodes
THE INCLINED (A Half-Hour Sitcom)
A man becomes part of the working team at the Inclined Plane in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Pilot Episode
THE TRACK (A One Hour Drama Series)
A man and his crew are the go-to people who keep the peace between the legal and the illegal enterprises in southern California.
Pilot Episode
CONTACT INFORMATION
Kendra Hanks/ A318 Productions
Email: [email protected] (760) 238-3628
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