Bobby Crawford
Writer/Director/Producer
Bobby is a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and director of both stage and film. He is a product of the American Film Institute, UCLA, Howard University and Catholic University of America.
As an undergraduate student at Howard, Bobby’s play “The Brass Medallion” won an Excellence in Playwriting Award from the American College Theater ...
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Bobby Crawford
Writer/Director/Producer
Bobby is a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and director of both stage and film. He is a product of the American Film Institute, UCLA, Howard University and Catholic University of America.
As an undergraduate student at Howard, Bobby’s play “The Brass Medallion” won an Excellence in Playwriting Award from the American College Theater Festival. With this honor, Bobby became the youngest person and first African American playwright to have an original work produced in the world-renowned Eisenhower Theater of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Crawford has won several other awards including The Amoco Oil Bronze Medallion for Excellence in Playwriting • Samuel Goldwyn Award Finalist for Screenwriting • The Owen Weenie Dodson Award for Best Play and two Gilbert Hartke Awards for Best Director and Best Production for his breathtaking staging of “Equus.”
Bobby has also written for film and television. He served on the staffs of two comedy series “The New Odd Couple” and “227” where―as story editor―he penned “Honesty,” the show’s premier episode. Bobby wrote the hit film, “A Rage In Harlem,” starring Forrest Whittaker, Danny Glover, Gregory Hines and Robin Givens.
Mr. Crawford has been a member of the Broadway on Sunset Musical Theater Workshop, the Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, LA, New Musicals, Inc, and is currently a proud member of Broadway Producer Ken Davenport’s TheaterMakers Studio Pro Inner Circle (formerly the Producers Perspective).
With his late partner, noted composer Howlett Smith, Bobby has developed three musical spectacles with an eye towards Broadway: “Sophonizba;” “In the Shadow of Zapata;” and "Khubilai: Mothered to Manhood."

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