Marcus Romer | |
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Born |
Marcus Romer 1961 (age 55–56) England |
Education | Leeds University |
Occupation | Actor, director, playwright, screenwriter |
Years active | 1995–present |
Marcus Romer (born 1961) is a British director. Romer wrote and directed the 2014 feature film The Knife That Killed Me. He was the Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre in York, England from 1993 - 2016. He is now the Creative Director of his own company Artsbeacon Ltd. Romer has played roles in several British television series.
As a stage director, Romer has won three Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for productions of Contact (2010), Lord of the Flies, and Beautiful Thing (2005). 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 for best production for young people.