Director
Mark is Associate Artist at Leeds Playhouse, a freelance director and screenwriter.
From 2013 to 2016, Mark was the Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse. He was the Associate at the National Theatre Studio from 2011 to 2013 and ran Dumbfounded Theatre from 2001. In 1999 he won the JMK Award for Young Directors – he now serves as the JMK Trust’s Vice-Chair.
Theatre
2020
MISSING PEOPLE by Brad Birch
Leeds Playhouse & Kani Public Arts Theater co-production
Opens New National Theater, Tokyo (February 2020)
2018
THE FRUIT TRILOGY by Eve Ensler (US Premiere)
Abingdon Theatre at Lucille Lortel Theater, New York
DE PROFUNDIS, in a new adaptation by Frank McGuinness
Classic Spring Company at the Vaudeville Theatre, London & Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival
2017
WAITING FOR GODOT
Tobacco Factories Theatre, Bristol & tour
ANIMAL WISDOM by Heather Christian
Co-directed with Emilyn Kowaleski
Bushwick Starr Theater, Brooklyn, New York
THE COUNTRY by Martin Crimp (Japanese premiere)
Gorch Brothers Productions at DDD Aoyama Cross Theater, Tokyo
2016
VILLETTE, adapted from Charlotte Brontë’s novel by Linda Marshall Griffiths
Courtyard Theatre, Leeds Playhouse
THE FRUIT TRILOGY
By Eve Ensler
World Premiere at WOW Festival, Southbank Centre London & Leeds Playhouse
2015
RICHARD III
Quarry Theatre, Leeds Playhouse
AVOCADO
World Premiere, Leeds Playhouse & Latitude Festival
By Eve Ensler
UNCLE VANYA
Leeds Playhouse
A new version by Samuel Adamson
2014
UNTOLD STORIES
The Courtyard, Leeds Playhouse
Adapted from the Alan Bennett book
OF MICE AND MEN
The Quarry, Leeds Playhouse
Adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel
2013
Alexander Masters’ STUART: A LIFE BACKWARDS by Jack Thorne
(Hightide Festival Theatre and Sheffield Theatres co-production at Topside, Underbelly, Watford Palace & Sheffield Crucible)
Stage Acting Excellence Award Nomination – Fraser Ayres
Carol Tambor Award Best of the Festival Nomination
2012
WILD OATS by John O’Keefe
(Bristol Old Vic)
2011
66 BOOKS
‘Micah’ and ‘Ephesians’
(The Bush Theatre)
MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS by Ron Hutchinson
(The Watermill Theatre)
FOUR PLAYS ABOUT FREEDOM by Ryan Craig, Eve Ensler, Amy Rosenthal and Arnold Wesker (The Tricycle)
2010
24 HOUR PLAYS (Dark but Full of Diamonds by Lucy Kirkwood)
(The Old Vic)
HENRY VIII
(Shakespeare’s Globe)
2009
JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES by Alan Ayckbourn
(Theatre Royal, Northampton, Ayckbourn at 70 Season)
2008
SNAKE IN THE GRASS, by Alan Ayckbourn
(Matrix Theatre, L.A) US Premiere.
Nominated for three 2008 Ovation Awards
2007
HOLDING FIRE!, by Jack Shepherd
(Shakespeare’s Globe)
SONGS OF THE SOUTH by Samuel Barber
(Young Vic/ENO)
THE UNKNOWN KURT WEILL by Brecht & Weill
(Young Vic/ENO)
VOICES OF ABOLITION devised by Mark Rosenblatt
(Shakespeare’s Globe at The Palace of Westminster)
2006
THE LENINGRAD SIEGE by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra
(Tron, UK Tour and Wilton’s Music Hall.)
2005
PROFESSOR BERNHARDI by A. Schnitzler, new version by Samuel Adamson
(Dumbfounded & Oxford Stage Company/Arcola Theatre)
2003
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
(Thelma Holt Ltd & Theatre Royal, Plymouth, UK No 1 Tour)
THE TEMPEST
(National Theatre ‘Shakespeare Unplugged’ Tour and Cottesloe)
2002
THE CIRCLE by W Somerset Maugham
(TEG and Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford in association with Oxford Stage Company UK No 1 Tour)
A PASSIONATE WOMAN by Kay Mellor
(Royal Theatre Northampton)
2001 – 2004
BREAD AND BUTTER by CP Taylor
(Dumbfounded Theatre & Oxford Stage Company/Southwark Playhouse, Scottish
tour & Tricycle Theatre)
2000/1
THE CIRCLE by W Somerset Maugham
(Oxford Stage Company/Salisbury Playhouse/Tour)
Revived in 2001 with new cast for OSC/Northampton & Richmond
1999
THE DYBBUK by S Anski, adapted by Mark Rosenblatt (BAC)
Winner, JMK TRUST YOUNG DIRECTORS AWARD
Film
2019
MAKING NOISE QUIETLY (Open Palm Films, dir. Dominic Dromgoole)
Co-Screenwriter, adapted from the play by Robert Holman. UK Theatrical release, distributed by Verve Films.
2019
GANEF
Short – 14 minutes. Writer/Director
Produced by Mark Rosenblatt, Suri Ellerton & Exec Produced by MetFilm.
Stars Lydia Wilson and Sophie McShera.
2016
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (Shakespeare’s Globe & BFI)
Short Film, screen adaptation and direction for The Complete Walk
HENRY VIII (Shakespeare’s Globe & BFI)
Short Film, screen adaptation and direction for The Complete Walk
2008/10
THE CONSTANT WIFE (Brilliant Films)
Screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham play
2006
THE CIRCLE (Brilliant Films)
Screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham play
Radio
2007
PROFESSOR BERNHARDI by Arthur Schnitzler
(BBC Radio 3)
2000/1
ROMEO AND JULIET, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
(BAFTA nomination), HAMLET, MACBETH (Kartouche Audio)
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