Profile
Patrick Marber
For the Donmar: writer of Dealer’s Choice
Other theatre credits include: The Producers (Menier Chocolate Factory/Garrick Theatre), Glengarry Glen Ross (productions at both The Old Vic and Palace Theatre, New York), Habeas Corpus (Menier Chocolate Factory), Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s Theatre and Broadway – Tony Award for Best Director of a Play and Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play), Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/Apollo Theatre/Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre, NYC), Steve Coogan/John Thompson in Characters (Edinburgh/Purcell Room/Touring), and his own plays Dealer's Choice (National Theatre/Vaudeville Theatre), Closer (National Theatre/Lyric Theatre/Broadway), Howard Katz and Three Days In the Country (both National Theatre). Other productions include 1953 (Almeida Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills (National Theatre), The Old Neighborhood (Royal Court at Duke of York's Theatre), The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre) and I Remember (devised piece at Royal Court). For television, he directed After Miss Julie and The Curator (both for the BBC).
As a writer, his other work includes The Musicians (NT Connections), After Miss Julie, Don Juan in Soho, and The Red Lion (National Theatre).
Television credits includes: co-writer of The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Paul Calf Video Diaries, The Curator, Natural Born Quizzers (all BBC).
Film credits include: The Critic (dir. Anand Tucker), Closer (dir. Mike Nichols), Notes on a Scandal (dir. Richard Eyre) and Love You More (dir. Sam Taylor-Wood)
Radio credits include: Hoop Lane (BBC Radio 3) and Bunk Bed with Peter Curran (BBC Radio 4).