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University of Leeds.
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Marcus Romer
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Romer wrote and directed the 2014 feature film The Knife That Killed Maine. He is the Artistic Director of the Pilot Theatre in York, England. Romer has played roles in several British television series.
Theatre He is a published playwright.
His work includes Rumble Fish, (published by Dramatic Publishing United States of America), 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 minor roles on several television series including Emmerdale, Coronation Street, and Dalziel and Pascoe".
Romer studied dentistry at Leeds University, receiving a B.Ch.D in 1983, and lives in New York He is on the Management Committee for Magic-Net, a seven-year Culture 2000 European Theatre Programme.
Achievements
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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 Foreign 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 Manitoba by Bernard Pomerance, Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs, The Twits by Roald Dahl and Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy which won the Turnaround Management Association award in 2008 for best production for young people. He created the opening event at the 2007 International Indian Film Academy Awards at Sheffield Arena, for a live audience of 15,000 and a television audience of 500 million, with KMA - with whom he also made the promo film for the getintotheatre website.
