Marcus Romer
| Marcus Romer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Marcus Romer 1961 (age 52–53) England, United Kingdom |
| Education | Leeds University |
| Occupation | Actor, Director, Playwright, Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1995–present |
Marcus Romer (born 1961) is the Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre and who is best known for his roles in Emmerdale and The Bill. He works as a director, writer and actor but has a BChD in Dentistry from Leeds University.[1]
Directing
Theatre
As a director he has directed and won three M.E.N awards for Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, adapted by Nigel Williams, and Beautiful Thing, by Jonathan Harvey. Other directing work includes Sing yer heart out for the lads, by Roy Williams, Road by Jim Cartwright, Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess, The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, Mirad a Boy from Bosnia by Ad de Bont, Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton, Look Back in Anger by John Osborne, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs, The Twits by Roald Dahl and Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy which won the TMA award in 2008[2] for best production for young people.
He has directed work at York Theatre Royal, Lyric Hammersmith, Octagon Theatre, Bolton, The Unicorn London, Swan Theatre, Worcester, Harrogate Theatre and Oldham Coliseum as well as directing work that has toured to Nottingham Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Richmond Theatre London, Artsdepot, Contact Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool Everyman, Haymarket Theatre, Jersey Opera House, Belfast Grand Theatre, Northampton, Sheffield Lyceum, Wakefield Theatre Royal, and Winchester Theatre Royal.
Film
He adapted the screenplay for 'The Knife That Killed Me' from the novel by Anthony McGowan and directed this with Kit Monkman of KMA for Green Screen Productions, with distribution by Universal Pictures.
Screen and Play Writing
He is a published playwright; his work includes Rumble Fish, (published by Dramatic Publishing[3] USA), Out of Their Heads, Taken without Consent, (translated as Crash Kids in Germany), Looking for JJ, Fungus the Bogeyman and Bloodtide.
His film works include the recent adaptation of Anthony McGowan's The Knife That Killed Me.
Acting
As an actor he has appeared in Prime Suspect, GBH, Hillsborough, This is Personal, Shipman, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Heartbeat, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Bill, The Cops, Micky Love, and City Central.
Other Work
He created the opening event at the 2007 International Indian Film Academy Awards at Sheffield Arena, for a live audience of 15,000 and a TV audience of 500 million, with KMA - with whom he also made the promo movie for the getintotheatre website.
He studied at Leeds University, receiving a B.Ch.D in 1983, and lives in York.
He is on the Management Committee for Magic-Net, a seven-year Culture 2000 European Theatre Programme.
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