Robert McEwen has held senior management positions at three of the world’s leading public relations firms and counseled scores of Fortune 100 companies. Most recently, McEwen served at Burson-Marsteller as president and CEO of the Midwest region, a territory stretching from Canada to Texas and from Pennsylvania to California. McEwen also is a former news reporter and editor who covered crime, labor, politics and sports during his five years with The Associated Press in California and Arizona. He also earned a playwriting fellowship at the world-renowned Iowa Writers Workshop.
McEwen’s plays have won two of the nation’s top awards for dramatists: first prize in the 21st Century Playwrights Festival (for his play Cholo!) and second prize in the Fourth Freedom Foundation competition at The Kennedy Center (for his play Son Of A Gonne). McEwen also spent two years coaching basketball at Monroe Community College in New York where his nationally-ranked teams won 46 of 55 games.
