Patrick Marber - Definition and Overview

Patrick Marber is a British actor and writer associated with the kind of playwriting referred to as in-yer-face theatre.

Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he was a cast member on the radio shows On The Hour and Knowing Me, Knowing You, and their television spinoffs The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You...with Alan Partridge.

He also wrote the play Closer, which was made into a film directed by Mike Nichols starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen. Marber's play After Miss Julie (his adaptation of the Strindberg play Miss Julie) was adapted for television in 1995 and performed in 2003-2004 at the Donmar Warehouse by Kelly Reilly, Richard Coyle and Helen Baxendale.

External links

• IMDb entry (http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0544999/)