Robert L. Freedman

Freedman attended Los Alamitos High School, where he was the editor of the school’s newspaper. That's where he met another influential figure in his life, a journalism teacher named Margaret Hall. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He holds Masters of Fine Arts from NYU in Dramatic Writing and Musical Theatre Writing. ==Career==

Freedman won the 1994 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Television Children's Show for his script for the TV movie A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story (1993). Among other awards, Freedman was nominated by the Writers Guild of America, "Adapted Long Form". He was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing For a Miniseries or a Movie, a Co-Nominee for the 2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries. He wrote the book for the stage musical Grand Duchy, with music by John Bayless, which had staged readings at Playwrights Horizons and the Paper Mill Playhouse and premiered in Santa Barbara, California, in 2003. A second performance, also in Santa Barbara, was expected spring of 2016. He wrote the book to a musical titled Campaign of the Century, with lyrics by Freedman and Steven Lutvak and music by Lutvak. It is based on the book by Greg Mitchell, and is about the smear campaign against author Upton Sinclair. It had staged readings at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2004, the New York Music Festival in September 2005, and the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild in 2006. Freedman wrote the book and lyrics to a musical version of Kind Hearts and Coronets, with music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak, directed by Ron Lagomarsino, which was presented at the Sundance Institute Theatre Laboratory, Utah, in July 2006. The musical had a staged reading in the Breaking Ground Series at the Huntington Theatre in Boston in April 2006. ==Work==

Television Sources: The New York Times, filmreference.com • The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) • Broadway Sings: The Music of Jule Styne (1987) • Taken Away (1989) • ''Locked Up: A Mother's Rage'' (1991) • Woman With A Past (1992) • A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story (1992) • Honor Thy Mother (1992) • In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (1994) • What Love Sees (1996) • Mrs. Santa Claus (1997) • Unlikely Angel (1997) • ''Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella'' (1997) • Long Way Home (1998) • What Makes a Family (2001) • Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) • Murder in the Hamptons (2005) • ''The Pastor's Wife'' (2011) Theatre • Grand Duchy (with John Bayless) • Campaign of the Century (with Steven Lutvak) • The Beast of Broadway: The Life and Times of David Merrick (with Faye Greenberg) (2010) • ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder'' (with Steven Lutvak) • Camp Rock: The Musical (with Faye Greenberg) ==Honors and awards==