Robert Lawson is a writer, director, composer, screenwriter & visual artist who has provided leadership for Andy's for the past nine years. Besides his involvement with Andy's, he is the author & director of dozens of performance texts that have been produced in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and various other venues. His music/theater work ...but the rain is full of ghosts was performed at the Kennedy Center as part of the National American College Theater Festival (2003). His work has been published in American Writing, Poems & Plays and The Northern New England Review.

Recent work includes direction & set design of The Magic Flute for the Granite State Opera; an ongoing series of workshops in Creative Process and Film for the Donau University in Austria; and co-writing and producing an independent feature film, Safety Glass, slated to begin shooting later this year starring Peter Sarsgaard, Mandy Moore, and Michelle Williams. He is the co-author of a number of screenplays, in collaboration with writer/director Jonathan Glatzer, including Fear Itself, currently in development. Art projects include an art/science installation based on the Camera Obscura (whose year and a half run at the Historical Society in Peterborough ended in May), and plans for a Museum of the 5 Senses to be located in the Monadnock Region.

He is on faculty at Franklin Pierce College where he has created numerous original theater works - at times in collaboration with his wife, choreographer Sally Bomer. Recent free lance theater work includes a staged reading of Dominic Orlando's Terror of the Physical Being for the MacDowell Colony's Downtown series.