Robert John Ford is an award-winning playwright, composer, lyricist, and theatre producer.  His stage plays and musicals - including "Caucus!," "Six-On-Six," "Utopia," "Adore Us! Line," and "Sleeping Dogs" - have been seen by more than 75,000 people throughout the world and featured in stories by The New York Times, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, and The CBS Morning Show, among others.  His songs have been performed at Carnegie Hall and at cabaret clubs and events by notable Broadway performers including Jeremy Jordan and Laura Benanti.  He is the recipient of numerous national recognitions, including the Ashland New Play Festival Award, the Cloris Leachman Award, the Vittum Award, and an Iowa Arts Council Fellowship.

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As a theatre administrator, RJF has held management positions at numerous theatre companies including the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego (15 years), the Theatre In Old Town in San Diego, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, the Hangar Theatre, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Goodspeed Musicals.  He currently administers RJFcreative, an umbrella limited liability company that represents all of his creative works, businesses, and contract work nationally.

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A native of Iowa, RJF splits his free time between Des Moines, where he is a theatre producer and activist, and New York, where he is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop and The Dramatists Guild of America.  Other notable conversation starters about RJF: he was a former successful contestant on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," had daily conversations with a serial killer for nearly a year, and had a nationally-televised moment with Vice President Kamala Harris.