Biography

Robert hensley

Robert is an award-winning content creator, based in Los Angeles. 

Born and raised in the lush Laurel Highlands of rural southwestern Pennsylvania, Robert excelled in the arts, developing a keen interest in working with actors. In 2018, he was honored by Uniontown Area High School with an induction into their Arts, Academics and Athletics Hall of Fame. 

Robert's twenty-or-more-year career in the entertainment industry began in fashion styling and costume design, later transitioning to makeup. Over the last ten-or-so years, he has begun to focus more on writing and content creation.

 As a costume designer, his work has included  designs for contemporary ballets and off-Broadway plays, including the world premiere of Gatsby in Hollywood by Joshua Rebell was nominated for Best Costumes at the 2003 Garland Awards. As a makeup artist, his talent and skills with cosmetics have allowed him to travel and create styles for some of the most famous faces in the world for red carpets, magazine covers, television shows, and on film. Robert was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2020 for his work on Season Four of Kit Williamson's Eastsiders. 

A dare led Robert to write his first play, The Dark Sisters, a short adaptation of a Grimm Brothers' fairy tale, which was originally produced as part of George Larkin's Grimm Fest at the MET Theatre in Los Angeles in 2003, and was later published as part of a Grimm Fest anthology by JAC Publishing. His next play, the full-length dark comedy Turning Out, was produced in Los Angeles by the Blank Theatre Company, and was also published by JAC. He later self-published a collection of short plays, Death, Life and a Creme Filled Center, which had been produced as a staged reading at Anthony Meindl's Meta Theatre. 

His first self-published work of fiction was the YA novella, Leo's Love Story, an LGBT-themed, sci-fi teen romance. It was nominated for the YA Fiction Award at the 2013 Los Angeles Book Awards. He most recently published a collection of short screenplays, Short Attention Span. 

Robert's first screenplay, the short film Texas Toast, was produced by Alyson Fouse and directed by Chane't Johnson. Since then, he has written, directed and produced numerous short films, including the psychological thriller Birth Mother, the supernatural drama A Moment, the family drama A Mother's Love. His short films, The Taste of Salt, a relationship drama, and Homewrecker, a genre thriller, both screened at numerous international festivals and won multiple awards. Robert's first feature film, Family Affair, which was completed during the pandemic lock down, has finished its festival run, in which is won multiple awards, and is now available on Tubi and other streaming services.

Robert works as talent producer and host for Tony Sweet's Truth Be Told media collective, hosting Monday afternoon's Truth Be Told Minuteman Report. He was the executive producer and host of the limited video podcast series Face Value, now available on YouTube. 

He is also currently attached to direct the romantic comedy, Roasted, from a screenplay he wrote, which was optioned by Leonian Pictures.  

Additionally, Robert is a certified Meditation Leader and Sound Therapist in the Celtic Shamanic Tradition.