Justin Martin is an English director of television and theatre. He is known for his collaborations with director Stephen Daldry and has received a BAFTA TV Award as well as nominations for two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Drama Desk Award.
Justin MArtin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Justin Martin |
| Occupation | Director |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Known for | The Jungle Prima Facie Stranger Things: First Shadow |
| Awards | Full list |
Career
editMartin is a multi-award-winning director working in theatre, film and television. He has a long collaboration with director Stephen Daldry, working as an associate director for Daldry’s award-winning productions of Skylight starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, The Audience starring Helen Mirren and The Inheritance, all of which played on the West End and Broadway.[1][2][3]
Martin's screen credits include work on the first two seasons of the award-winning Netflix period drama series The Crown[4] as well as overseeing hugely successful and record breaking National Theatre Live performances of Skylight (2014),[5] The Audience (2015),[6] and Prima Facie (2022).[7] In 2021 Justin co-directed the BAFTA award-winning film Together with Stephen Daldry starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama.[8][9]
In 2019 Martin directed The Jungle at The Young Vic (2017), the West End (2018) and in New York at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York (2018).[10][11] For his work he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play.[12] In 2021 he directed the West End production of Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer for which he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director.[13] The production transferred to Broadway at the Golden Theatre with Comer reprising her role.[14] He co-directed the play Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the Netflix streaming series with Stephen Daldry at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End. Together they received a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Director.[15]
Activism
editMartin is an associate artist with Good Chance Theatre - a company dedicated to making work with and about refugees.[16] He has directed a number of works for them, including most recently working on a number of promos for "The Walk" - a theatre festival spanning 8000 km from The Syrian border to Manchester.[17]
Credits
editTelevision
edit| Year | Title | Credit | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Audience | Associate director | National Theatre Live | |
| 2014 | Skylight | Associate director | National Theatre Live | |
| 2016–2017 | The Crown | Second unit director | Netflix series; 12 episodes | |
| 2021 | Together | Co-director | BBC Television film | |
| 2022 | Prima Facie | Director | National Theatre Live | |
| 2023 | The Lovers | Director | Sky Atlantic series; 6 episodes |
Theatre
edit| Year | Title | Playwright | Credit | Venue | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–2012 | Billy Elliot | Lee Hall | Associate director | National Tour | [18] |
| 2013 | Let the Right One In | Jack Thorne | Assistant director | Apollo Theatre, London | [19] |
| 2013 | The Audience | Peter Morgan | Associate director | Gielgud Theatre, West End | [20] |
| 2015 | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway | [21] | |||
| 2014 | Skylight | David Hare | Associate director | Wyndhams Theatre, West End | [22] |
| 2015 | John Golden Theater, Broadway | [23] | |||
| 2017–2018 | The Jungle | Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy |
Director | The Young Vic, London | [24] |
| 2019 | St. Ann's Warehouse, New York | [25] | |||
| 2018 | The Inheritance Parts 1 & 2 | Matthew López | Associate director | The Young Vic, London | [26] |
| 2020 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway | [27] | |||
| 2022 | Prima Facie | Suzie Miller | Director | Harold Pinter Theatre, West End | [28] |
| 2023 | John Golden Theater, Broadway | [29] | |||
| 2023–2024 | Stranger Things: The First Shadow | The Duffer Brothers | Director | Phoenix Theatre, West End | [30] |
Awards and nominations
edit| Year | Award | Category | Project | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Director of a Play | The Jungle | Nominated | [31] |
| 2022 | BAFTA TV Award | Best Single Drama | Together | Won | [32] |
| 2023 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Director | Prima Facie | Nominated | [33] |
| 2024 | Stranger Things: The First Shadow | Pending | [34] |
References
edit- ^ "Skylight (Broadway, 2015)". Playbill. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Audience (Broadway, 2015)". Playbill. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Inheritance (Broadway, 2019)". Playbill. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Justin Martin". Curtis Brown. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "NT Live: Skylight". National Theatre. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Audience". TV Guide. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Prima Facie". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Together". Bleeker Street. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "BAFTA 2022 TV winners". BAFTA.org. 29 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Jungle West End". The Young Vic. 16 June 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Read Reviews for The Jungle at St. Ann's Warehouse". Playbill. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Tootsie, Hadestown, and The Ferryman Lead 2019 Drama Desk Award Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Olivier Awards 2023: Jodie Comer and Paul Mescal nominated for theatre prizes". BBC. 28 February 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Killing Eve Star Jodie Comer to Bring Prima Facie to Broadway". Playbill. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Olivier awards 2024: complete list of nominations". The Guardian. 12 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Our Team - Good Chance". Goodchange.org. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Biography - Justin Martin". Justin Martin. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Justin Martin - Artist". Abouttheartist. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Gardner, Lyn (8 April 2014). "Let the Right One In five-star review – 'Exquisitely beautiful staging'". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "London Theatre News, Reviews, Interviews". WhatsOnStage. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Dame Helen Will Bring Queen Liz II To Broadway In Peter Morgan's 'The Audience'". Deadline Hollywood. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Skylight". Official Theater. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Broadway Review: 'Skylight' with Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy". Variety. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Jungle Review". Time Out. 6 July 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Jungle". St. Ann's Warehouse. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Inheritance". The Young Vic. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Why 'The Inheritance' Imploded On Broadway". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Jodie Comer Stars in London Prima Facie Beginning April 15". Playbill. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Prima Facie review: Jodie Comer makes a remarkable Broadway debut in Suzie Miller's one-woman show". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Stranger Things: The First Shadow". London Theatre. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Nominations for the 2019 Drama Desk Awards Announced; Oklahoma!, Tootsie, Rags Parkland Lead the Pack". Playbill. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Tv, Guardian (30 March 2022). "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Stage, Guardian (2 April 2023). "Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Olivier awards 2024: complete list of nominations". The Guardian. 12 March 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2024.