Marcus Romer
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Marcus Romer is the Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre
He works as a director, writer and actor.
He is a published playwright work includes Rumble Fish
, (published by Dramatic Publishing http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/product_info.php?products_id=1293 USA), Out of Their Heads, Taken without Consent, (translated as Crash Kids in Germany), Looking for JJ
, Fungus the Bogeyman
and Bloodtide
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 See the IMDB link
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 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
He created the opening event at the 2007 IIFA Bollywood Oscars 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 and rceived a B.Ch.D in 1983. He lives in York. He is on the Management Committee for Magic-Net a seven year Culture 2000 European Theatre Programme.
Pilot Theatre
Pilot Theatre is an Arts Council England funded Theatre Company based in York, England. It was founded in 1981 by students from Bretton Hall College in Wakefield. The company was based in Wakefield and Castleford before moving to York in 2001....
He works as a director, writer and actor.
He is a published playwright work includes Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay....
, (published by Dramatic Publishing http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/product_info.php?products_id=1293 USA), Out of Their Heads, Taken without Consent, (translated as Crash Kids in Germany), Looking for JJ
Looking for JJ
Looking for JJ is a novel by Anne Cassidy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Book Award and winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2004.-Plot introduction:...
, Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus the Bogeyman is a children's graphic novel by British artist Raymond Briggs. It follows one day in the life of the titular character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings.-Plot:...
and Bloodtide
Bloodtide
Bloodtide is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...
As an actor he has appeared in Prime Suspect, GBH
GBH
GBH may refer to:* Grievous bodily harm, certain crimes of personal assault in English law * Girth at breast height, a standard measurement of the circumference of a tree: see diameter at breast height...
, Hillsborough, This is Personal, Shipman, Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
, Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
, Heartbeat, Dalziel and Pascoe
Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)
Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...
The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
, The Cops
The Cops (TV series)
The Cops is a British television series made by World Productions for the BBC.The production, set in the fictional town of Stanton in Northern England, was noted for its documentary-style camerawork and uncompromising portrayal of the police force...
Micky Love, and City Central See the IMDB link
As a director he has directed and won three M.E.N awards for Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results...
, by William Golding, adapted by Nigel Williams, and Beautiful Thing
Beautiful Thing
Originally Beautiful Thing is a play written by Jonathan Harvey and first performed in 1993. A screen adaptation of the play was released in 1996 by Channel 4 Films, with a revised screenplay also by Harvey. Initially, the film was only intended for television broadcast but it was so well-received...
, by Jonathan Harvey
Jonathan Harvey (playwright)
Jonathan Harvey is a British playwright whose work has earned multiple awards. He is also a former secondary school English teacher.-Life and works:...
. Other directing work includes Sing yer heart out for the lads, by Roy Williams
Roy Williams (playwright)
Roy Samuel Williams, OBE is an award-winning English playwright. Williams has many awards including the George Devine Award for Lift Off, the 2001 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for his play Clubland, the 2002 BAFTA Award for Best Schools Drama for Offside and 2004 South Bank...
, Road
Road
A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one, or sometimes two, roadways each with one or more lanes and also any...
by Jim Cartwright
Jim Cartwright
Jim Cartwright is an English dramatist, born at Farnworth, Lancashire, England. Cartwright's first play, Road, won a number of awards before being adapted for TV and broadcast by the BBC....
, Bloodtide
Bloodtide
Bloodtide is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Plot:...
by Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...
, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a 1996 black comedy by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh which was premiered by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, Ireland...
by Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is an Irish-British playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Although he has lived in London his entire life, he is considered one of the most important living Irish playwrights.-Life:...
, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman (play)
The 1983 stage play Kiss of the Spider Woman is an adaptation of Manuel Puig's same title novel by the author himself.Novelist, screenwriter and playwright Manuel Puig wrote two plays while living in exile...
by Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig was an Argentine author...
, Mirad a Boy from Bosnia by Ad de Bont, Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay....
by S. E. Hinton
S. E. Hinton
Susan Eloise Hinton is an American author best known for her young adult novel The Outsiders.While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965...
, Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger is a John Osborne play—made into films in 1959, 1980, and 1989 -- about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man , his upper-middle-class, impassive wife , and her haughty best friend . Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace...
by John Osborne
John Osborne
John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
, The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man (play)
The Elephant Man is a 1977 play by Bernard Pomerance. The production's Broadway debut in 1979 was produced by Richmond Crinkley and Nelle Nugent, and directed by Jack Hofsiss...
by Bernard Pomerance
Bernard Pomerance
Bernard Pomerance is an American playwright and poet whose best known work is the play The Elephant Man. Pomerance was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1940. He studied at the University of Chicago and moved to London in 1968....
, Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus the Bogeyman is a children's graphic novel by British artist Raymond Briggs. It follows one day in the life of the titular character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings.-Plot:...
by Raymond Briggs
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children...
, The Twits
The Twits
The Twits is a humorous children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It was written in 1979, and first published in 1980....
by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
and Looking for JJ
Looking for JJ
Looking for JJ is a novel by Anne Cassidy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Book Award and winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2004.-Plot introduction:...
by Anne Cassidy which won the TMA award in 2008 for best production for young people
He has directed work at York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal
The York Theatre Royal is a theatre in St. Leonard's Place, York, England, which dates back to 1744. The theatre currently seats 847 people. This reduced capacity takes into account removal of the mixing position seats and the stage side boxes which are normally not sold...
, Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith
The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions....
, Octagon Theatre, Bolton, The Unicorn
The Unicorn
The Unicorn is the second album by Irish folk music group The Irish Rovers, released in 1967.The title track The Unicorn, a recording of Shel Silverstein's poem, reached #7 in the U.S...
London, Swan Theatre
Swan Theatre
Swan Theatre may refer to:* The Swan , an Elizabethan playhouse* Swan Theatre , a theatre belonging to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England...
, Worcester, Harrogate Theatre and Oldham Coliseum as well as directing work that has toured to Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Playhouse
The Nottingham Playhouse is a theatre in Nottingham, England. It was first established as a repertory theatre in the 1950s when it operated from a former cinema. Directors during this period included Val May and Frank Dunlop.-The building:...
, West Yorkshire Playhouse
West Yorkshire Playhouse
The West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, England is a theatre which opened in March 1990 as part of the regeneration of the Quarry Hill area of the city...
, Birmingham Rep, Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Richmond Theatre
Richmond Theatre
The present Richmond Theatre, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is a British Victorian theatre located on Little Green, adjacent to Richmond Green. It opened on 18 September 1899 with a performance of As You Like It, and is one of the finest surviving examples of the work of theatre...
London, Artsdepot
Artsdepot
The artsdepot is a multi-purpose cultural centre located in North Finchley, in the London borough of Barnet. It was officially opened on 23 October 2004 for the enjoyment and development of the arts in North London.- Activities :...
, Contact Theatre
Contact Theatre
-Contact:Contact is a multi-disciplinary arts venue in Manchester. Originally a traditional theatre Contact was rebranded in 1999 as a space specialising in producing work and providing opportunities for young people.-History:...
, Liverpool Playhouse
Liverpool Playhouse
The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It originated in 1866 as a music hall, and in 1911 developed into a repertory theatre. As such it nurtured the early careers of many actors and actresses, some of which went on to achieve...
, Liverpool Everyman, Haymarket Theatre, Jersey Opera House, Belfast Grand Theatre, Northampton, Sheffield Lyceum, Wakefield Theatre Royal, and Winchester Theatre Royal
He created the opening event at the 2007 IIFA Bollywood Oscars 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 and rceived a B.Ch.D in 1983. He lives in York. He is on the Management Committee for Magic-Net a seven year Culture 2000 European Theatre Programme.