Professional Life
He starred, produced and directed his own plays as well as the plays of other writers in New York City, Miami, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
His plays include:
- Blood in Mississippi (1957) a political play.
- What's Good for the Goose (1958) a two act comedy about marriage fidelity.
- The Breadwinner, (1959) a comedy drama in three acts. The story of the indomitable spirit of a proud and beautiful woman who struggles to overcome all the moral and physical agonies of poverty in order to provide her two children with a better future.
Of The Breadwinner, Stephan Miller wrote in Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1971:
One of the beauties of Robert Earl Sawyer’s play ... is that it leaves you feeling so good. It leaves you feeling that whatever miseries consume you at the moment, those of the characters are so much worse and so much more gracefully overcome.
From 1980 until his death in 1994, Sawyer had his own production company called RES (Robert Earl Sawyer) Productions.Sawyer wrote, produced and directed the first black television soap opera Rainbow Street, in 1989. It aired in Atlanta, GA, Pasadena, CA, Los Angeles, CA and Las Vegas, NV, in 1989.
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