Actors - Patrick Marber

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Patrick Marber (born September 19, 1964) is a British Jewish writer, actor, and sometimes director associated with the kind of playwriting referred to as in-yer-face theatre. He lives in London, where he was born.

Educated at Wadham College, Oxford (he read English), 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, after working for a few years as a stand-up comedian. He reuinited with the Knowing Me, Knowing You team in 2003 to record Director's Commentaries for the DVD release of the show. He did not say anything of any real value during four and a half hours of talking.

His first play was Dealer's Choice, based on his own experiences with gambling addiction, which opened at the Royal National Theatre in February 1995, and won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy.

Marber's After Miss Julie was an adaptation of the Strindberg play Miss Julie for television in 1995, and was performed in 2003-2004 at the Donmar Warehouse by Kelly Reilly, Richard Coyle and Helen Baxendale.

He also wrote the play Closer, which opened at the Royal National Theatre in 1997, and which he adapted into a film in 2004; it was directed by Mike Nichols and starred Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen.

His most recent play was Howard Katz, again first performed at the Royal National Theatre in June 2001.

Enemies

Richard Herring and Stewart Lee do not like Marber, repeatedly referring to him as having a curmudgeon face and being so unoriginal that he actually aspires to mediocrity. This strong dislike originates from Marber's alleged stealing of their ideas and enthusiasm at cutting them out of the writing team in the transition from Radio's "On The Hour" to the TV version The Day Today.

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