robin rose singer

Robin Rose Singer is a New York-based writer/director, originally from a cow town of 5,000 people. She specializes in true stories and adaptations with big emotional impact and cinematic storytelling. She gravitates toward messy characters, undiscovered worlds, and finding fresh takes on genre to make exploring the human condition exciting.

She was a 2020 Academy Nicholl finalist for her script The Lions of Mesopotamia, based on the true story of the Iraqi Football Team during the Hussein Regime (also on the Hit List, Black List Recommends, and one of two Tracking Board Recommends in 2020).

In 2021, she was named to the inaugural WScripted Cannes List of Women Screenwriters along with 24 female-identifying writers from around the world.

Her two most recent scripts were supported by Producer’s Guild programs: spiritual thriller set in rural Panama (where her parents lived for ten years) Mala Sangre was chosen for the 2021 PGA Create fellowship with producer Rabia Sultana. And short film “Haider, TX” about a Pakistani boy’s first days in Texas was awarded a production grant under the 2022 PGA x Google collaboration with Paul Feig’s company Powderkeg, additionally supported by Panavision and Kodak.

Her first short film "Aphasia" made its world premiere in 2015 at Tribeca Film Festival, and since then she has made her living behind the camera. She is the writer/creator of Maturity, a half-hour comedy about a senior living facility in the Bronx (winner, IFP/Made in NY: Series competition and 2x Telly Winner for Comedy and Music).

Recent directing credits include: “Haider, TX” (2022 PGA x Google), “Interference” (NBC/Universal Film Festival, BAM Cinematek’s New Voices in Black Cinema, March on Washington Film Festival and more); “Home Street Home” a documentary about a homeless immigrant in New York (winner, Best Short Documentary at Harlem International Film Festival).

Select production credits: Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth (Sundance/Berlinale/SXSW); and Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win, both multiple-time Sundance alumni; Angelfish (2020 TIFF Next Wave), a feature starring rapper Princess Nokia; Danny’s House (Season 1) for Viceland. Additionally, Singer works in commercials, creating content for major global brands and constantly pushing to innovate, reinvent, and inspire.