Patrick Marber is an Olivier Award winning playwright, Academy nominated screenwriter and Tony Award winning director.
PLAYS: Dealer’s Choice, Closer, Howard Katz, The Red Lion, Three Days in the Country (all NT) After Miss Julie, Don Juan in Soho, (Donmar)The Musicians, The School Film (both for NT Connections), Hoop Lane (BBC Radio 3).
Stage adaptations include versions of Hedda Gabler, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Exit The King (all for NT) 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,
The Critic, What Happens At Night.
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 (NT and Vaudeville) Closer (NT, Lyric, Music Box NY), Howard Katz (NT), Three Days in the Country (NT), Don Juan in Soho (Wyndham’s) Exit The King (NT).
Other productions include The Room, Victoria Station and 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 (NT), ‘1953’ (Almeida) The Old Neighborhood (Royal Court). Recent work: Leopoldstadt (Wyndhams/Longacre – Broadway, Tony Award for Best Director of a play). Habeas Corpus (Menier) Pandemonium (Soho Theatre) Nachtland (Young Vic) What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Marylebone Theatre) The Producers (Menier/Garrick) Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace NY)
His production of Mel Brooks’s The Producers is currently running at the Garrick Theatre in London.
His screenplay of What Happens At Night is scheduled to be filmed in early 2026, directed by Martin Scorcese.