Rob Edwards (screenwriter)

After graduating from the Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Edwards attended Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts in the Transmedia Department.{{cite web|title=Alumni | Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts|url=http://vpa.syr.edu/art-design/art/alumni|accessdate=17 February 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130108154229/http://vpa.syr.edu/art-design/art/alumni|archivedate=8 January 2013}} He also serves on the Cranbrook Schools Board of Governors.{{Cite web |title=Cranbrook Schools Board of Governors |url=https://schools.cranbrook.edu/board-of-governors |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=schools.cranbrook.edu}}

Edwards moved to Los Angeles following graduation and gained success as a television writer. After writing for the long-running ABC-TV series Full House, Edwards went on to become a writer, story editor, and consultant for several prime time series including Bill Cosby's A Different World and the Golden Globe nominated The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Edwards was also an Emmy Award nominee for the long-running sketch comedy show In Living Color.{{cite web|title="In Living Color" Emmy Award History|url=http://www.emmys.com/shows/living-color|accessdate=17 February 2013}}

Edwards is also credited with creating the NBC sitcom Out All Night which starred Patti LaBelle, Morris Chestnut and Vivica A. Fox. Throughout the 1990s, Edwards wrote and produced for television networks and on series including Roc, The Parent 'Hood, and In the House.{{cite web|title=Rob Edwards Biography, filmreference.com|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/94/Rob-Edwards.html|accessdate=17 February 2013}}

Edwards next shifted his focus to feature films and joined Walt Disney Animation Studios as a writer. His first film, Treasure Planet, was released in 2002 and starred a voice cast that included Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Martin Short, Emma Thompson, Patrick McGoohan, as well as famed voice-over actors Corey Burton and Tony Jay.{{cite web|title=Treasure Planet on IMDb|website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133240/|accessdate=17 February 2013}} Though the film fared poorly at the box office,{{cite web|title=The 25 Biggest Box Office Bombs of All Time Adjusted for Inflation|date=15 August 2011 |url=http://www.pajiba.com/seriously_random_lists/the-25-biggest-box-office-bombs-of-all-time-adjusted-for-inflation.php|accessdate=17 February 2013}} it was a critical success{{cite web|title=Treasure Planet on RottenTomatoes|website=Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/treasure_planet/|accessdate=17 February 2013}} for Edwards and went on to earn eight Annie Award nominations{{cite web|title=30th Annie Awards|url=http://annieawards.org/30th-annie-awards|accessdate=17 February 2013}} and an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.{{cite web|title=75th Academy Awards Winners|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/75th-winners.html|accessdate=17 February 2013}}

Edwards returned to the screen with 2009's The Princess and the Frog, a critical{{cite web|title=The Princess and the Frog on RottenTomatoes|website=Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1196003-princess_and_the_frog/|accessdate=17 February 2013}} and box office success.{{cite web|title=The Princess and the Frog on Box Office Mojo|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=princessandthefrog.htm|accessdate=17 February 2013}} The film was nominated for three Oscars, including Best Animated Feature Oscar.{{cite web|title=Nominess & Winners for the 82nd Academy Awards|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/nominees.html|accessdate=17 February 2013}}

On both films, Edwards worked with the Disney Animation team of Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin).{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} In 2011, Variety reported that Edwards was collaborating on projects with producers Robert Zemeckis, Bob Cooper, Jack Rapke

and with Will Smith, Dan Fogelman, and Reggie Hudlin.{{cite web | url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118037229/ | title='Princess' scribe lands pic pair | publisher=Variety.com | date=May 17, 2011 | accessdate=February 26, 2013 | author=Kroll, Justin}} In June 2021, Edwards was announced to write the script and make his directorial debut on the animated film Sneaks.{{cite magazine|last=Tangcay|first=Jazz|title=Rob Edwards to Make Directorial Debut With Animated Feature 'Sneaks' (EXCLUSIVE)|date=June 3, 2021|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2021/artisans/news/rob-edwards-directorial-debut-animated-feature-sneaks-1234988139/|accessdate=October 17, 2024}}

• Better Days (1986)
• Full House (1988)
• A Different World (1988–89)
• The Marshall Chronicles (1990)
• In Living Color (1990–92)
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–91)
• Out All Night (1992–93)
• Roc (1993–94)
• The Parent 'Hood (1995)
• The Naked Truth (1995–96)
• In the House (1996–97)

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• http://www.robedwards.net
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• Scripts & Scribe Interview [http://www.scriptsandscribes.com/robedwards/ with Rob Edwards]

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