Marcus Lloyd
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Marcus
grew up in London and after graduating from Worcester College, Oxford
with a degree in Physics, he went on to study drama writing with
playwright Bernard Kops while supporting himself in the cloakroom of
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His first play Taking Pictures
was a winner in the New London Radio Playwright's Festival and was
directed by Gerard Murphy. The following year he won BBC Television's
Double Exposure screenwriting award for his 60 minute television drama,
A Relative Stranger
which starred Jason Isaacs, Siobhan Redmond, Suzanna Hamilton and Ioan
Gruffudd. His first stage play Dead Certain was produced by Bill
Kenwright at the Theatre Royal, Windsor and has gone on to be produced
around the world. In 2002 his screenplay Cuckoo won The Oscar Moore Foundation Screenwriting Award
and the £10,000 prize was presented to him by Emma Thompson. He
subsequently received commissions from a number of companies including
Kudos Productions for his original thriller Wake Up Dead; SQ Productions for an adaptation of Brian Aldiss's cult sci-fi classic Non-Stop; and Boudica Films for The Adventures of Maurice Wilson. In 2016 Dead Certain was adapted for Polish Televison and broadcast under the name Zabojcza Pewnosc on TVP1 (dir. Marius Malec.) And in 2017 his short film To The Grave (dir. Esther Hegarty, St Catherine Productions) won a number of awards including Best Drama at the Euro Shorts International Film Festival. Other work includes the short films Miriam (dir. Esther Hegarty, based on the short story by Truman Capote), The Interview (dir. Andy Kelleher, White Dolphin Films) and the radio plays, Vacant Possession and The True Story Of Mr. Box for Independent Radio Drama Productions.
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