Robert Singer

“	..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.	”
	— Robert Singer on how he came to work with Eric Kripke

Robert Singer (born January 3, 1944) is an American writer, director, and producer for the series Supernatural. He served as co-showrunner from the show's inception to its conclusion and is credited with creating many of Dean Winchester's iconic one-liners. Singer is married to writer Eugenie Ross-Leming. After Eric Kripke stepped down as co-showrunner, Singer continued in the role alongside Sera Gamble. When Gamble departed and Jeremy Carver assumed the position, Singer remained as co-showrunner. During Season 11, he reduced his involvement to serve as an executive consultant but returned as executive producer and showrunner in Season 12, collaborating with Andrew Dabb until the series concluded. Additionally, the character Bobby Singer was named in his honor as a tribute by Kripke.

Singer has also made several voice and appearance cameos, appearing on numerous gag reels starting around Season 3. In Hunteri Heroici, he provided the voice for BOB the Cat, and in Book of the Damned, he voiced the radio DJ. In the episode Jack in the Box, Singer appeared in a cameo as a doctor at the hospital where Sam, Dean, and Castiel arrive.

He has previously directed episodes of Midnight Caller, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Hack.

“	It was always me and Bob Singer, and Bob has always been there. So there's been true continuity. People say "Supernatural" has had different showrunners and it hasn't. It's actually always had the same showrunner, he has just had different partners over the last decade.	”
	— Eric Kripke on Robert Singer's role

“	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.	”
	— Robert Singer

“	I don't think we've ever pandered to fans. Well, in general we, at least I don't, I don't pay much attention to what goes on online. When we're sitting in the writers' room and we're breaking stories, we rarely say "I wonder what the fans are gonna think of this." We just wanna tell the best story. We get feedback, their reaction to things? Pretty much, we're here with 200. So we have great respect for our fans. We want to keep it fresh for them. But we're not taking the directions from them.	”
	— Robert Singer on the line between honoring and pandering to fans

Writer

• Season 3
  • Sin City (with Jeremy Carver)
• Season 6
  • Appointment In Samarra (with Sera Gamble)
• Season 7
  • Out With The Old (with Jenny Klein)
• Season 13
  • A Most Holy Man (with Andrew Dabb)

Director

• Season 1
  • Phantom Traveler
  • Salvation
• Season 2
  • Bloodlust
  • Croatoan
  • All Hell Breaks Loose - Part 1
• Season 3
  • Bad Day at Black Rock
  • Malleus Maleficarum
  • Long-Distance Call
• Season 4
  • Monster Movie
  • Wishful Thinking
  • Criss Angel Is A Douchebag
  • When the Levee Breaks
• Season 5
  • Sympathy for the Devil
  • The Curious Case of Dean Winchester
  • Swap Meat
  • The Devil You Know
• Season 6
  • The Third Man
  • Caged Heat
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
• Season 7
  • Defending Your Life
  • Death's Door
  • The Born-Again Identity
  • Survival of the Fittest
• Season 8
  • We Need To Talk About Kevin
  • Torn and Frayed
  • Pac-Man Fever
• Season 9
  • Slumber Party
  • Road Trip
  • Bloodlines
• Season 10
  • Black
  • Girls, Girls, Girls
  • Dark Dynasty
• Season 11
  • Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • Don't Call Me Shurley
• Season 12
  • The Foundry
  • First Blood
  • All Along the Watchtower
• Season 13
  • Patience
  • The Scorpion and The Frog
  • Scoobynatural
  • Let the Good Times Roll
• Season 14
  • The Scar
  • Lebanon
  • Jack in the Box
• Season 15
  • Raising Hell
  • The Trap
  • Carry On

Actor

• Season 8
  • Hunteri Heroici (BOB, voice only)

• Season 10
  • Book of the Damned (Radio DJ, voice only)

• Season 14
  • Jack in the Box (Doctor, cameo)

Trivia

Robert Singer's cameo as a doctor in Jack in the Box.

• Singer is married to the writer and executive producer Eugenie Ross-Leming, with whom he previously collaborated on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, alongside Brad Buckner and Phil Sgriccia.
• Robert Singer was among the cast and crew members who appeared as characters in the Season 6 episode The French Mistake.
• In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Singer revealed an abandoned Season 11 episode concept. "There was one last year that we actually tried to do and that was putting [Sam and Dean] in a game, Jumanji-style. We just couldn't make it work. I think that was the only script in 11 years that we ever abandoned. It was just too hard and we just couldn't nail it."
• Robert Singer told a crowd of fans at Chicon 2015 that he regarded Supernatural as "just a TV show".

External links

• Robert Singer at the Internet Movie Database