Patrick Marber
Writer
Patrick Marber is a playwright, screenwriter and director.
Plays: Dealer’s Choice; Closer; Howard Katz; The Red Lion; Three Days in the Country (all National Theatre); After Miss Julie; Don Juan in Soho (Donmar); The Musicians; The School Film (both for NT Connections) and Hoop Lane (BBC Radio 3).
Stage adaptations include versions of Hedda Gabler, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Exit The King (all for the National Theatre) and Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ (Donmar).
Screenplays: Closer; Notes on a Scandal (Academy Award nomination, British Independent Film Award Best Screenplay), Old Street; Love You More and The Critic.
TV: Co-writing credits include the comedy shows The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge (both BBC)
His plays have won Evening Standard, Olivier, Time Out, New York and London Critics’ Circle and Writers’ Guild Awards. His TV work has received BAFTA, British Comedy and Royal Television Society Awards.
Director: productions of his own plays and adaptations: Dealer’s Choice (National Theatre and Vaudeville); Closer (National Theatre, Lyric, Music Box NYC); Howard Katz; Three Days in the Country Exit The King (National Theatre) and Don Juan in Soho (Wyndham’s).
Other productions include The Room; Victoria Station; Family Voices (Pinter Season 2018/2019); Venus In Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Travesties (Menier, Apollo and Roundabout NY - Tony Award nomination for Best Director); The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre); Blue Remembered Hills (National Theatre); ‘1953’ (Almeida) and The Old Neighborhood (Royal Court).
Recent work: Leopoldstadt (Wyndham's/Longacre – Broadway, Tony Award for Best Director of a play); The Producers; Habeas Corpus (Menier); Pandemonium (Soho Theatre) Nachtland (Young Vic); What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Marylebone Theatre).