Bert V. Royal

BERT V. ROYAL began his career in entertainment as a casting assistant, working on television shows such as NBC's Emmy award-winning "Third Watch" and the highly controversial, three time Emmy-nominated Comedy Central powerhouse, "Chapelle's Show." After several years in the casting business, he left to devote more time to his writing.

His first play, 'DOG SEES GOD: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead,' premiered at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival and won the Overall Excellence Award. It went on to win the 2004 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Play, the 2006 HX Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, the 2006 Broadway.com Audience Favorite Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and was named the Best Play of 2004 by Theatremania.com.

'Dog Sees God' has been produced all over the country and been performed by such talent as America Ferrera, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eliza Dushku, Ian Somerhalder, Michelle Trachtenberg, Patrick Fugit, Anna Paquin, Jennifer Esposito, Lindsay Price, Becki Newton, Lizzy Kaplan and Andrea Bowen. The play continues to be performed worldwide.

Other theater directing credits include 'I DIG DOUG' (Winner of the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival for Overall Excellence) and SING!, concert of Duets to benefit Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times and Children's Hospital Los Angeles in the spring of 2010.

Royal also wrote Parents on Strike and A Treasure's Trove two films in development at Paramount Pictures and sold his spec script, Easy A to Screen Gems.

After writing on the TeenNick television show "Gigantic," Bert's adaptation of the hit Argentine TV series "PATITO FEO" has been green-lit by MTV.

Bert is created an original one-hour series for CBS Television Studios as well as adapted the Japanese horror film 2LDK for Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment.

He lives in West Hollywood with his partner, Clay, and his two dogs, Lucille and Hamilton.

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