Robert Singer
Bob Singer is a director, writer and executive producer of Supernatural.
The character of Bobby Singer is named after him.
See the 100th episode party for Bob's muscial talents as he performs with Jensen and other crew members in the band "The Impalas".
Here from the William S. Paley Television Festival this excerpt gives is some idea of Bob’s role in the show:
Bob: … They actually made this pilot, I saw the pilot and really liked it a lot and I think what the studio wanted was... the studio probably said to themselves, we…
• Jared and Jensen are doing something distracting off camera
Eric: You can’t get anything done!
Bob: This is what it’s like to direct them, too. The studio said, “Well, we cannot give a forty plus million dollars to Eric Kripke and let him run wild, so we need you know some…
• Jensen and Jared are still at it
Bob: …this is so hard… so they thought they needed an experienced hand to guide ‘the young man’ through these rocky waters. The young man of course felt ‘what do I need this old fart for’? Anyway, we met and we met a number of times and finally he got comfortable enough with me for us to join up and partner on this thing. It’s interesting, ‘cause we are sort of different generations and we approach drama in kind of a different way but as we worked together, we found that we’ve arrived to the same place. The methods are a little different of how we get there.
Moderator: Can you explain that?
Bob: Well, there is a generational thing and there’s that I’m very…
Eric: … sober.
Bob: There’s that. I come in from a characters’ point of view, it’s all about characters to me and I let the plot work itself out, given what the characters are gonna do and what I’m interested in the scenes that drive the plot but I’m mostly interested in how the characters react to it. Eric works very hard on the stories and gets the plot done and once the plot is good, the character stuff would come naturally. So we sort of go in a circle when we are in a room together and we arrive at this place where both things are serviced and we are really a one voice now, we rarely disagree on stuff. I worked alone for a long time so it is really cool to have a partner.
Eric: To blow smoke up his ass for a minute, he brings the depth and maturity of character, just depth to the drama that I could not do. Me alone is like “Boogeyman”. All of a sudden with him, we have a show with all these characters that are psychologically rich and true and Bob is behind a huge amount of that, so the show would not succeed at all without him.
Contents
Director of:
- 1.04 Phantom Traveler
- 1.21 Salvation
- 2.03 Bloodlust
- 2.09 Croatoan
- 2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One
- 3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock
- 3.09 Malleus Maleficarum
- 3.14 Long-Distance Call
- 4.05 Monster Movie
- 4.08 Wishful Thinking
- 4.12 Criss Angel Is A Douchebag
- 4.21 When The Levee Breaks
- 5.01 Sympathy For The Devil
- 5.07 The Curious Case Of Dean Winchester
- 5.12 Swap Meat
- 5.20 The Devil You Know
- 6.11 Appointment in Samarra
Writer of:
Convention Appearances
Links
Clips, Articles and Interviews
- Interview on Season Three Premiere by Buddy TV. October 2007
- Interview with Robert Singer by iF Magazine. December 2008.
- Robert Singer talks about his favourite episode, how Bobby got HIS name, and the 100th episode.
