Author Biography

Rob has written three optioned screenplays; Laid Up, The Goddess and the Hitman (sold to Midsummer Pictures) and flatandhard (to Rented Films). He has also written a stage play Donkeys which nobody really liked. Rob made Laid Up into an ultra low-budget feature film. The remake rights were bought by Unknown Pictures and placed with Sony in the US. At one point Eddie Izzard was attached to direct.

Rob wrote Clipped in 2004/5 on Bondi Beach.

Rob Gunns is thirty-three and grew up in Lowestoft, Suffolk. After studying Philosophy at Leeds University he moved to Los Angeles and interned at New Line Cinema while working in a frozen yoghurt restaurant and a coffee shop which supplied caffeine to the West Hollywood AA meeting.

Back in England he worked on the Big Breakfast, The Word and MTV Europe.

Rob teaches English to support his writing habit. He moved to Bangkok for a year where he taught, worked as a copywriter and had a brief career as a male model. He backpacked from Bangkok to Beijing through Cambodia, Vietnam and China. Previous students include Igor Ivanov, the Russian Foreign Minister.

Random facts:
· Rob’s worst job was cleaning toilets at Hammersmith Post Office.
· Rob was chased by a rabid dog through the mountains of Tibet.
· Rob once opened a toilet door into Brad Pitt’s face.

Rob enjoys life drawing, the gym, studying Spanish and scuba diving. He is currently working on his second novel.

Rob can be contacted at clipped1@gmail.com