David Farr

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The Ones Below

Writer & Director

The Night Manager

Writer

Hanna

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TV

Writer & Director & Creator 

Hanna: Series 3
Amazon Studios for Amazon Prime
In development
Hanna: Series 2
Starring
  • Esme Creed-Miles
  • Joel Kinnaman
    •  

    The action thriller series based on David's feature film script returns for a second series.

    Amazon Studios for Amazon Prime

    Writer & Creator 

    Hanna: Series 1
    Director Sarah Adina-Smith
    Starring
  • Esme Creed-Miles
  • Joel Kinnaman
    •  

    TV adaptation of David's feature film Hanna (2011) 

    Amazon Studios for Amazon Prime for Amazon Prime
    Troy: Fall of a City
    Starring
  • Alfred Enoch
  • Bella Dayne
  • Louis Hunter
    •  

    Television series set during the Trojan War

    Kudos for BBC1
    The Garden

    Political thriller

    Cuba Pictures
    In development

    Writer & Director 

    Impossible Planet
    Producer Ronald D. Moore & Michael Dinner
    Starring
  • Jack Reynor
  • Benedict Wong
    •  

    Episode of Channel 4's ten part anthology series Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick


    Sony Entertainment for Channel 4

    Writer 

    The Midwich Cuckoos
    Route 24 for SKY
    In development
    A Good Marriage (Park Slopes)
    Blossom Films for Amazon Prime
    In development
    The Night Manager
    Nominated: Outstanding Writer on a Limited Series, Emmy Awards
    Producer Rob Bullock
    Director Susanne Bier
    Starring
  • Tom Hiddleston
  • Hugh Laurie
  • Olivia Colman
  • Tom Hollander
  • Elizabeth Debicki
    •  

    Adaptation of the John le Carre novel

    The Ink Factory for BBC1, AMC
    McMafia
    Creator Hossein Amini
    Director James Watkins

    New drama based on Misha Glenny's book about organised crime

    Cuba Pictures
    Outcasts
    Starring
  • Jamie Bamber
  • Eric Mabius
  • Hermione Norris
  • Ashley Walters
    •  
    Drama following a group of misfits sent to colonise a new planet
    Kudos Film and Television for BBC1
    Spooks: Multiple Episodes
    Producer Various
    Director Various
    Series 4-9 of the feted spy show
    Kudos Film and Televison for BBC

    Film

    Writer & Director 

    The Ones Below
    Feature
    Starring
  • Clemence Poesy
  • Stephen Campbell Moore
  • David Morrissey
  • Laura Birn
    •  

    Thriller about a couple whose new neighbours are not what they seem

    Cuba Pictures and BBC Films
    Coolbox
    Short
    Producer Nikki Parrott
    Starring
  • Lloyd Hutchinson
  • Khalid Laith
  • Hattie Morahan
  • Justin Salinger
    •  

    Two men deliver a new fridge to a couple struggling with a newborn baby

    BBC Films
    Tigerlily Films

    Writer 

    Paani
    Feature
    Producer Aditya Chopra
    Director Shekhar Kapur
    Starring
  • Anushka Sharma
  • Hrithik Roshan
    •  

    Film set in the future when the Earth's water supply has run out

    Swarovski Entertainment
    Hanna
    Feature
    Producer Marty Adelstein, Leslie Holleran, Scott Nemes
    Starring
  • Eric Bana
  • Saoirse Ronan
  • Cate Blanchett
  • Jessica Barden
    •  
    Film following a teenage girl trained as an assassin who finds acceptance in a French family
    Focus Features
    Marty Adelstein Productions
    The Man with the Iron Heart
    Feature
    Producer Simon Istolainen
    Director Cedric Jimenez
    Starring
  • Rosamund Pike
  • Mia Wasikowska
  • Jason Clarke
  • Jack O'Connell
  • Jack Reynor
    •  

    Adaptation of the novel HHhH by Laurent Binet about the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 

    Legende Films
    Embassy
    Feature

    Thriller following the six days in 1980 when Islamic terrorists seized the Iranian embassy in London

    Element Pictures
    In development
    Tale of Two Cities
    Feature

    Adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel

    BBC Films
    Origin Films
    In development
    Fallen Idol
    Feature
    Adaptation of Graham Green's novel
    Parkes/Macdonald Productions
    In development

    Theatre

    Writer 

    The Hunt
    Director Rupert Goold
    Starring
  • Tobias Menzies
    •  

    Based on the critically acclaimed Danish film thriller Jagten (2012)


    Almeida Theatre
    The Jungle Book

    Commission from the National Theatre adapting the story by Rudyard Kipling

    National Theatre
    Trees

    New commission co-written with Amir Nizar Zuabi

    National Theatre Wales
    The Heart of Robin Hood
    Producer RSC
    Director Gisli Örn Gardarsson
    Starring
  • Gareth Aled
  • Martin Hutson
  • Emma Manton
  • Flora Montgomery
    •  

    RSC's Christmas show with a new twist on the classic legend of Robin Hood

    Royal Shakespeare Theatre
    Love, The Musical
    Producer Kate McGrath
    Director Gísli Örn Gardarsson
    Starring
  • Vera Baldwin
  • Maralin Belchere
  • Anna Calder Marshall
  • Maria Charles
    •  
    Musical following the blossoming romance between two people in an old people's home
    Lyric Hammersmith
    Great Expectations
    Director Gordon Anderson
    Starring
  • Sam Cox
  • Rachel Ferjani
  • Aiden Mcardle
  • Adrian Schiller
    •  
    Adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel
    Old Vic, Bristol
    The Danny Crow Show
    Director Dominic Hill
    Starring
  • Selina Chilton
  • Lisa Ellis
  • Clare Holman
  • Mark Rice-Oxley
    •  

    Satire on the cult of celebrity and television chat shows

    The Bush Theatre
    Elton John's Glasses
    Director Terry Johnson
    Starring
  • Will Keen
  • Tom Mannion
    •  
    Original comedy about a fanatical Watford City football supporter who blames the team's defeat on the glare from Elton John's glasses
    Watford Palace Theatre

    Writer & Director 

    Silence
    Producer Filter
    Starring
  • Oliver Dimsdale
  • Christine Entwisle
  • Mariah Gale
  • Paul Hamilton
    •  

    Collaboration between Filter and David exploring noise in its many forms

    Hampstead Theatre
    Water
    Starring
  • Victoria Moseley
  • Ferdy Roberts
  • Oliver Dimsdale
    •  
    Company-created piece of drama which interweaves the issue of global warming with various relationships
    The Tricycle Theatre
    Metamorphosis
    Producer Dyri Jonsson
    Starring
  • Gisli Orn Gardarsson
  • Bjorn Helgason
  • Brenda Murphy
  • Nick Manning
    •  
    American premiere of David's adaptation of Franz Kafka's novella about a man who wakes up to find that he has been turned into a bug
    BAM, New York
    The Queen Must Die

    One act play for National Theatre Connections

    National Theatre
    The Ramayana
    Producer Kate McGrath
    Starring
  • Vanessa Ackerman
  • Kolade Agboke
  • Nicholas Kahn
  • Marc Layton-Bennett
    •  
    Adaptation of the epic poem for the Lyric Hammersmith
    Lyric Hammersmith
    Metamorphosis
    Producer Kate McGrath
    Starring
  • Tom Mannion
  • Jonathan McGuiness
  • Elva Osk Olafsdottir
  • Unnur Osp Stefansdottir
    •  
    Adaptation of Franz Kafka's novella about a boy who wakes up to discover he is an insect
    Lyric Hammersmith
    Tamburlaine The Great
    Starring
  • Greg Hicks
  • Jeffery Kissoon
  • Ann Ogbomo
  • Rachael Stirling
    •  
    David Farr's adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play
    Barbican
    The Magic Carpet
    Starring
  • Sarah Belcher
  • Sharon Duncan-Brewster
  • Nick Haverson
  • Helena Lymbery
    •  
    Drama following two Arabian thieves who aim high when they try to rob the sultan
    Lyric Hammersmith
    The Odyssey
    Starring
  • Robert Bowman
  • David Fishley
  • Colin Mace
  • Scott McLoughlin
    •  
    David Farr's adaptation of Homer's myth
    Bristol Old Vic
    The UN Inspector
    Starring
  • Geoffrey Beevers
  • Kenneth Cranham
  • Elizabeth Bell
  • Geraldine James
    •  

    Adaptation of Gogol's The Government Inspector

    National Theatre
    Paradise Lost
    Creator John Milton
    Starring
  • Kananu Kirimi
  • Stephen Noonan
  • Christopher Staines
    •  

    Adaptation of John Milton's epic poem about the fall from grace of Adam and Eve

    Bristol Old Vic
    Ruckus in the Garden
    Part of NT Connections
    National Theatre
    Crime and Punishment in Dalston
    Creator Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Starring
  • Cengiz Bozkurt
  • Dave Fishley
  • Learie Foster
  • Michelle Hallak
    •  
    Original play based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel for the Arcola Theatre
    Arcola Theatre
    Night of the Soul
    Producer RSC
    Starring
  • Nigel Betts
  • Tom Mannion
  • Hattie Morahan
  • Cherry Morris
    •  

    Play about a market researcher confronted by the ghost of a young woman

    Barbican Pit
    The Nativity
    Starring
  • Sarah Theresa Belcher
  • Dave Fishley
  • Toby Jones
    •  
    Adaptation of the Nativity story
    Young Vic
    Max Klapper: A Life In Pictures
    Starring
  • Jim Dunk
  • Anthony Higgins
  • Tracy Letts
  • Emily Lloyd
    •  

    Original play with film components about a Hollywood director

    The Electric Cinema
    Neville Southall's Washbag
    Starring
  • Will Keen
  • Rachel Weisz
    •  

    Play about a grouchy hermit obsessed with Norman Whiteside's 1985 FA Cup goal

    Finborough Theatre
    Glue Wedding
    Battersea Arts Centre

    Director 

    Hamlet
    Writer William Shakespeare
    Starring
  • Pippa Nixon
  • Jonathan Slinger
  • Greg Hicks
  • Charlotte Cornwell
  • Robin Soans
    •  
    David directs Jonathan Slinger in the title role of Shakespeare's classic play
    Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
    The Tempest
    Producer Royal Shakespeare Company
    Writer William Shakespeare
    Starring
  • Ankur Bahl
  • Sarah Belcher
  • Amie Burns Walker
  • Kirsty Bushell
    •  
    Part of What Country Friends Is This?, the trilogy of Shakespeare's shipwreck plays
    Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
    Twelfth Night
    Producer Royal Shakespeare Company
    Writer William Shakespeare
    Starring
  • Ankur Bahl
  • Sarah Belcher
  • Amie Burns Walker
  • Kirsty Bushell
    •  
    Part of What Country Friends Is This?, the trilogy of Shakespeare's shipwreck plays
    Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
    The Homecoming
    Producer RSC
    Writer Harold Pinter
    Starring
  • Aislín McGuckin
  • Richard Riddell
  • Justin Salinger
    •  

    Revival of Harold Pinter's play

    Swan Theatre
    King Lear
    Producer RSC
    Writer William Shakespeare
    Starring
  • Kathryn Hunter
  • Katy Stephens
    •  
    Opened at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford and transferred to The Roundhouse and New York
    Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
    The Winter's Tale
    Producer RSC
    Starring
  • Greg Hicks
  • Darrell D'Silva
  • Kelly Hunter
  • John Mackay
  • Brian Docherty
    •  
    Directed by David as his inaugural production as Associate Director of the RSC
    Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
    The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
    Producer Kate McGrath
    Writer Bertolt Brecht
    Starring
  • Jude Akuwudike
  • Ariyon Bakare
  • Adrian Black
  • Lucian Msamati
    •  

    Satirical allegroy of Hitler's rise to power with the action moved to Africa

    Lyric Hammersmith
    Julius Caesar
    Starring
  • Gary Oliver
  • Christopher Saul
  • Adrian Schiller
    •  

    Modern set production of the Shakespeare play

    The Swan
    Coriolanus
    Producer RSC
    Starring
  • Alison Fiske
  • Greg Hicks
  • Chuk Iwuj
  • Tom Mannion
    •  
    David Farr's vaunted samurai production of Coriolanus which opened at the Swan, toured nationally and was transferred by Duncan Weldon into London's Old Vic Theatre
    Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
    Danton's Death
    Writer Georg Buchner
    Starring
  • Breffni McKenna
  • Jamie Newall
  • Thomas Russell
  • Milo Twomey
    •  

    Buchner's play about the French Revolution

    Gate Theatre, Notting Hill

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