Mark Rosenblatt is an Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director for stage and screen.
His first play, Giant, premiered at The Royal Court Theatre’s Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in 2024, before transferring the next year to the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End and then to the Music Box Theatre on Broadway in 2026. Giant won three Olivier Awards, including Best New Play, the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play and Most Promising Playwright and The Stage Award for Best West End Debut. In New York, the production was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play, winning Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (John Lithgow), as well as the Dorian Award for Outstanding Broadway Play.
As a freelance theatre director he has worked across the UK, in the West End and internationally since 1998. He was Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse from 2013-16, an Associate Artist there till 2020, and Associate at the National Theatre Studio from 2011-2013 where he ran the Directors Department and developed new work. He won the JMK Young Directors Award in 1999 and served as a JMK Trustee (and later Vice-Chair) for sixteen years.
In 2001, Mark founded Dumbfounded Theatre to rediscover forgotten classics from the international repertoire. Its work included his acclaimed productions of CP Taylor’s BREAD AND BUTTER (Traverse, Dundee Rep, Tricycle) and Arthur Schnitzler’s PROFESSOR BERNHARDI, adapted by Samuel Adamson (Arcola Theatre).
As a filmmaker, Mark wrote and directed the award-winning short film Ganef (Oscar-longlisted for Best Live Action Short), short films Cleopatra and Newborn (BFI & Shakespeare’s Globe) and co-wrote the feature film Making Noise Quietly (Open Palm Films). He is currently developing a feature screenplay for Good Chaos, Film4 & MUBI. He was named by Variety as one of its “10 Brits to Watch” for 2026.
His full CV, images and details about his work can be found at www.markrosenblatt.com