Justin
Martin

Justin Martin is an award winning director working in theatre, film and television.

Most recently Justin directed Jodie Comer in Suzie Miller’s award winning play Prima Facie at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End.

Justin co-directed with Stephen Daldry the critically acclaimed film Together for Sonia Friedman Productions, BBC Films, and Shoebox Films (starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan). Justin went onto win a BAFTA for Best Single Drama for Together.

Justin’s critically acclaimed production of The Jungle (A Young Vic/National Theatre co-production, also co-directed with Daldry) played to a sell out season at St Ann’s Warehouse in New York following successful runs at the Young Vic, in the West End and at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. The show garnered awards including an Obie, a Southbank Sky Arts Award and a Broadway World Award for Best Direction. The play will return to St Ann’s next year before heading on to Washington DC. Justin is developing a film adaptation of it for the BBC.

Justin’s critically acclaimed production of Low Level Panic sold out twice at the Galway Theatre Festival before touring throughout Ireland and to a sell out season in Australia. Other recent theatre credits include: Last Chance: A Plea For the Unaccompanied Children of Calais (Young Vic) starring Carey Mulligan, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave and Samuel West; The Nether (Seymour Centre, Sydney); Far Away (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne); Fifty Two (Leicester Square Theatre); Good Chance/No Chance (as part of the Southbank Centre's Festival of Love); Harvey and Frieda (Arcola Theatre); Street (Mick Laly Theatre - Galway Theatre Festival), The Kitchen (HM Theatre, Victoria) and Skintight (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne).

Justin has a long collaboration with director Stephen Daldry. Justin was the associate director for Stephen’s award winning production of The Inheritance (Young Vic/West End/Broadway). He was the associate director for both Skylight (starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan) and The Audience (starring first Helen Mirren and later Kristin Scott Thomas) both in the West End and on Broadway. He also worked with John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett on the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Let The Right One In (Dundee Rep/Royal Court/West End/St Ann’s, NY/US Tour). He was an associate director on Billy Elliot The Musical working on Broadway, throughout North America, South Korea and Australia.

Other screen credits include work on Seasons 1 and 2 of the acclaimed, award winning Netflix series The Crown and on hugely successful NT Live performances of Skylight and The Audience. He was the Second Unit Director on The Beautiful Game, a film for Netflix/Blueprint, starring Bill Nighy and directed by Thea Sharrock. He is currently developing screen projects for Drama Republic with Sky Atlantic, for Fremantle with Amazon and for Badwolf.

Justin is an associate artist with Good Chance Theatre - a company dedicated to making work with and about refugees. He has directed a number of works for them, including most recently working on a number of promo’s for The Walk - a theatre festival spanning 8000km from The Syrian border to Manchester. He was the inaugural recipient of the Roger Leach Award for Theatre.

Justin continues to develop work with some of the worlds most renowned theatre, film and television companies in Australia, London and New York.