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In 2004, Marber was Cameron Mackintosh Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University.

Career

Educated at St Paul's School, Cranleigh School and Wadham College, Oxford (where 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 reunited with the Knowing Me, Knowing You team in 2003 to record commentaries for the DVD release of the show. He also contributed some new in-character audio material to the DVD release of The Day Today in 2004. St Pauls School St Pauls School is a boys public school. ... Cranleigh School is an independent English boarding school in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey. ... College name Wadham College Named after Nicholas Wadham Established 1610 Sister College Christs College Warden Sir Neil Chalmers JCR President Ben Jasper Undergraduates 460 MCR President David Patrikarakos Graduates 180 Homepage Boatclub Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, located at the southern... On The Hour double cassette cover featuring Chris Morris, 1992. ... Knowing Me, Knowing You. ... The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes. ... Knowing Me, Knowing You. ... Richard Pryor hits the money line A stand-up comedian or stand-up comic is someone that performs in comedy clubs, usually reciting a fast paced succession of amusing stories, short jokes and one-liners, typically called a monologue. ... A major selling point of DVD video is that its storage capacity allows for a wide variety of extra features in addition to the feature film itself. ...

His first play was Dealer's Choice, which he also directed. Set in a restaurant and based around a game of poker (and partly inspired by his own experiences with gambling addiction), it opened at the National Theatre in February 1995, and won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy. Dealers choice is a style of poker where each player may deal a different game. ... Several countries have a National Theatre. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ...

After Miss Julie, a version of the Strindberg play Miss Julie, was broadcast on BBC television in the same year. In this, Marber relocates the action to Britain in 1945, at the time of the Labour Party's victory in the general election, with Miss Julie as the daughter of a Labour peer. A stage version, directed by Michael Grandage, was first performed 2003 at the Donmar Warehouse, London by Kelly Reilly, Richard Coyle and Helen Baxendale. After Miss Julie relocates August Strindbergs Miss Julie (1888) to an English country house in July 1945. ... August Strindberg Portrait of August Strindberg by Richard Bergh   (January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Michael Grandage is a British theatre director who is currently Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England. ... The Donmar Warehouse is a small theatre in the Covent Garden area of the West End of London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Kelly Reilly Kelly Reilly (born 1977) is a British actress who, in 2004, became the youngest ever best actress nominee at the Olivier Awards. ... Richard Coyle is a British actor. ... Helen Baxendale (born 1969 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England) is a British TV, film and stage actress. ...

His play Closer, a comedy of sex, dishonesty and betrayal, opened at the National Theatre in 1997, again directed by Marber. This too won the Evening Standard award for Best Comedy, as well as the Critics Circle and Laurence Olivier awards for Best New Play. It has proved to be an international success, having been translated into thirty languages. A screen adaptation, written by Marber, was released in 2004, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen. Closer is the second play written by Patrick Marber. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director of films such as The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, to a Jewish Russian family. ... Julia Roberts (born Julia Fiona Roberts on October 28, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. ... David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an Academy Award nominated English actor. ... Natalie Portman (Hebrew: נטלי פורטמן), born Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג) on June 9, 1981, is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress. ... Clive Owen (born October 3, 1964), is a critically acclaimed English actor, now a regular performer in Hollywood and independent American films. ...

In Howard Katz, his next play, Marber presented very different subject matter: a middle-aged man struggling with life, death and religion. This was first performed in 2001, again at the National Theatre, but was less favourably received by the critics and has been less of a commercial success than some of his other work. A new production by the Roundabout Theatre Company opened Off-Broadway in March 2007, with Alfred Molina in the title role. The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit, subscription based theatre company, based in New York City. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Molina as Dr. Octopus in Spiderman 2 (2004) Alfred Molina (born May 24, 1953) is an English actor. ...

A play for young people, The Musicians, about a school orchestra's visit to Russia, was performed at the National Theatre's Shell Connections programme in 2004.

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He also co-wrote the screenplay for Asylum (2005), directed by David Mackenzie, and was sole screenwriter for the film Notes on a Scandal (2006), for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Look up asylum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Notes on a Scandal is a 2006 Academy Award-nominated film adapted from the 2003 novel Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

Marber's theatre directing credits include Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter (National Theatre), The Old Neighbourhood by David Mamet, (Royal Court Theatre, London) and The Caretaker by Harold Pinter, (Comedy Theatre, London). Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ... The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre in Sloane Square, in the Chelsea area of London noted for its contributions to modern theatre. ... Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is a British playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist, best known for his plays The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), and for his screenplay adaptations of novels by others, such as The...

Lee and Herring

The comedians Richard Herring and Stewart Lee famously do not like Marber. It is claimed that Marber has "stolen" some of their ideas, and that he cut them out of the writing team in the transition from Radio's On The Hour to the TV version The Day Today. Over the years, Marber's relationship to Lee & Herring appears to have mellowed from a genuine hatred into "comedy enemy". Richard Herring performing his show Someone Likes Yoghurt at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Richard Keith Herring (born July 12, 1967) is an British comedian and writer formerly best known as part of Lee and Herring, a double act with Stewart Lee. ... Stewart Lee (born April 5, 1968 in Solihull) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director probably best known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically-acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera. ... On The Hour double cassette cover featuring Chris Morris, 1992. ... The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes. ... Lee and Herring are a British standup comedy double act consisting of the comedians, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. ...

When he is referenced by either comedian, it is usually to solicit laughs as much at their own expense for previous vitriol as it is against Marber's indiscretions. Richard Herring even went so far as to rename part of the male reproductive anatomy "the Marber" in his book Talking Cock. Richard Herring performing his show Someone Likes Yoghurt at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Richard Keith Herring (born July 12, 1967) is an British comedian and writer formerly best known as part of Lee and Herring, a double act with Stewart Lee. ...

External links

• Patrick Marber at the Internet Movie Database
• Patrick Marber at www.contemporarywriters.com includes a "Critical Perspective" section