Robert Payne Cabeen

Robert Payne Cabeen is a screenwriter, artist, purveyor of narrative horror poetry, and now a novelist. His screenwriting credits include Heavy Metal 2000, for Columbia/TriStar, Sony Pictures, A Monkey's Tale, and Walking with Buddha. Cabeen's illustrated book Fearworms: Selected Poems was a 2015 Bram Stoker Award nominee. As creative director for Streamline Pictures, Robert helped anime pioneer Carl Macek bring Japanese animated features, like Akira and dozens of other classics, to a western audience. Cabeen received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Otis Art Institute, with a dual major in painting and design. Since then, he has combined his interests in the visual arts with screenwriting and storytelling for a broad range of entertainment companies including Warner Brothers, Columbia/TriStar, Disney, Sony, Universal, USA Network, Nelvana and SEGA. Robert is a city of Lost Angeles native. He resides in the Miracle Mile with his wife Cecile Grimm. Together, they spawned three offspring--all smarter, better looking and more talented than he is--but certainly not as scary. For more about Robert Payne Cabeen, visit: robertpaynecabeen.com