Mark Rosenblatt

Mark Rosenblatt is an Olivier Award-winning writer and director for stage and screen. His acclaimed debut play, Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring John Lithgow, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre’s Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in September 2024 before transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End for a limited season in spring 2025. The production won multiple Olivier Awards, including Best New Play, Best Actor (John Lithgow), and Best Supporting Actor (Elliot Levey), and subsequently transferred to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre. Giant received four nominations for the 2026 Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (John Lithgow), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (Aya Cash), and Best Direction of a Play (Nicholas Hytner). In 2025, Rosenblatt received the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright and won their Best New Play accolade for Giant. He was also named by Variety as one of its “10 Brits to Watch” for 2026.

Prior to writing Giant, he worked extensively as a theatre director. He won the 1999 JMK Young Directors Award for his production of S. Anski’s The Dybbuk (Battersea Arts Centre) and founded Dumbfounded Theatre in 2001, producing neglected work from the European repertoire. He was Studio Associate at the National Theatre (2011-2013), Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse (2013-16), and subsequently Associate Artist there until 2020. His theatre directing credits include: V [formerly Eve Ensler]’s Fruit Trilogy (Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York; also, Leeds Playhouse & Southbank Centre, London); Heather Christian’s Animal Wisdom [co-director] (The Bushwick Starr, New York); Frank McGuinness’ adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis (Classic Spring Company at the Vaudeville Theatre, London & Edinburgh Festival, starring Simon Callow); Martin Crimp’s The Country (Tokyo); Brad Birch’s Missing People [co-director] (New National Theater, Tokyo/Kani Public Arts Theater & Leeds Playhouse); Linda Marshall Griffiths’ adaptation of Villette as well as other productions including Richard III, Uncle Vanya, Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories and Of Mice and Men (Leeds Playhouse); Waiting for Godot (Tobacco Factory, Bristol & Tour); Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Alexander Masters’ Stuart: A Life Backwards (HighTide/Sheffield Theatres; Carol Tambor Award nomination); John O’Keeffe’s Wild Oats (Bristol Old Vic); Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Henry VIII and Jack Shepherd’s Holding Fire! (Shakespeare’s Globe); Just Between Ourselves, A Passionate Woman (Northampton Theatres); Songs of the South, The Unknown Kurt Weill (English National Opera/Young Vic Theatre); The Tempest (Cottesloe, National Theatre & tour); W. Somerset Maugham’s The Circle (Oxford Stage Company/Salisbury Playhouse & two national tours). For Dumbfounded Theatre: Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi (Arcola/Oxford Stage Company/BBC Radio 4) and CP Taylor’s Bread and Butter (Southwark Playhouse/Scottish tour/Tricycle Theatre, London).

His film work includes: Ganef [writer-director] (Oscar-longlisted for Best Live Action Short), Making Noise Quietly [co-writer] (feature, Open Palm Films), Cleopatra and Newborn [writer-director] (short films adapted from Shakespeare/BFI & Shakespeare’s Globe]. He is currently writing a feature film for Good Chaos, Film4 & MUBI.