Robert Morgan Fisher was born in Austin, Texas. His father was a Naval Flight Officer, so the Fisher family spent time in California, Washington State, Ohio, Virginia and Florida. Robert returned to The University of Texas at Austin where he began performing music in bars and coffeehouses. He soon migrated to Los Angeles where he put his Radio, T.V. and Film Degree to work in various jobs including executive/production assistant, announcer and, finally, as a writer of fiction, music, comedy and screenplays. His creative training includes two years of study with The Groundlings, three years as a performer with the improvised soap opera, Specific Hospital, and he is a lifetime alum of the Writers Boot Camp Think Tank. "I like to think I have one foot in fiction, the other in screenwriting and my heart in music."

THE MUSIC

In the summer of 2005, Robert released Built Myself a Greenhouse on his own Imperative Records label. The 14-song CD was co-produced by Chad Watson and features guest performances by: David Arkenstone, Ned Beatty, Delaney Bramlett, Rosemary Butler, Albert Lee, John McEuen, Augie Meyers, John Molo, Vern Monnett, Chris Montez, Mickey Raphael, Don Randi, Jimmy Raschel, Sky Saxon, Daryl S, Chris Spedding, Brad Swanson and Ethan Wiley. The title cut, "Greenhouse," showcases the neo-narrative style for which Robert is well-known, as does "A Life in Music," "Numbah One Boom-Boom," "That's Why They Call it a Shot" and the poignant anthem for childless couples, "Question of Family," delivered as a duet with Rosemary Butler, famous for her vocal work backing up (among others) Jackson Browne and Neil Diamond. "A Life In Music" from this album was a top-5 finalist for the 2005 VH-1 Song of the Year in the Folk Category.

In 1996, Robert released the critically-acclaimed CD, Follow A Hunch, also on his own Imperative Records label and also co-produced by Chad Watson. Other artists have taken note of Robert's narrative songwriting skills. He's collaborated on songs with the late Dr. Timothy Leary and internationally-known neo-narrative singer/songwriter Darryl Purpose. "The songs I've written with Robert are all home runs," says Purpose, "I close my shows with them." Fisher/Purpose co-writes include: "Ring On My Hand," "Traveler's Code," "Dangerous Game," "Late For Dinner," "Granted," "Oughta Be A Highway," "You Must Go Home For Christmas" and many others. Their most famous co-write is probably "Mr. Schwinn" -- winner of no less than three major songwriting festivals and now a contemporary folk classic.

Robert has also served as the occasional Music Director of Second City's Totally Looped. Featuring such improv/comedy luminaries as Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons), Laraine Newman (Saturday Night Live), Rick Overton (standup superstar) and Gail Matthius (Saturday Night Live), Totally Looped "dubs" dialogue into classic movie clips.

In 2006, Robert's song "We'll Buy a Flag" went to #1 on the Neil Young Living With War -- Songs of The Times chart -- out of over a thousand songs. Another song, "Jester King," remained in the Top 10 for several months. Robert's "Angel Within" was selected by Narrative Music Canada as the Self-Discovery - 1st Place Lyric of International Narrative Song Competition 2006. The INSC is the biggest competition for narrative (storytelling) songs in the world. The lyric category in which "Angel Within" took first place is the Self Discovery Category -- i.e. songs about a character's journey of self-discovery. "Angel Within" is a new song and will be on Robert's next CD of original material. For now, the best way to hear the song is in live performance (see NEWS and GIGS).

THE WRITING

Since coming to Los Angeles in the late 1980's, Fisher has written for radio, t.v. and film. In 1995, Robert composed and performed the music for Tony Guzman's contemporary retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom. He then spent several years working for Premiere Radio Networks as a staff writer/producer/actor on numerous nationally-syndicated radio comedy shows. Fisher left Premiere in 2001, soon after the company was absorbed by Clear Channel. Robert also wrote for a couple of short-lived television shows (The Watcher and Red Handed, both on UPN) as well as "script-doctoring a movie that never got made." In 1999, he was one of 14 people selected to participate in the ill-fated Paramount Sitcom Apprentice Writers Program. "The Program resulted in zero people getting staffed," he recalls, "but it did motivate me to write the novel and screenplay for Minor Weiss." For the past several years, Robert has worked with the Santa Monica-based Writers Boot Camp in both an administrative and creative capacity.

His fiction has been published in national journals, including The Snake Nation Review, The Seattle Review and Caffeine. Throughout the 1990s, his work was recognized in numerous writing competitions. However, in January of 2000, Robert's first novel, Set The Poem Free, Placed 2nd in the PublishingOnline North American Fiction Open and the screenplay adaption took first place in the Washington State Film Office Competition. His second novel, Minor Weiss, took the prestigious 2002 New Century Writer Award for best unpublished novel. Both Minor Weiss and In War with Time (a revised and expanded version of Set The Poem Free), remain unpublished. He is currently working on a third novel entitled That's What I Want and has several movies in development.

Robert Morgan Fisher currently resides in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Rebecca, have two sons, Grant and Logan.