Mark Grimmer

Mark Grimmer is a writer who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2005. Alongside Aneil Karia, he co-wrote the comedy sketch show pilot Spilt Milk for the NFTS, featuring Ben Whishaw, Jodie Whittaker and Robert Bathurst, which was awarded the Royal Television Society Student Award for Best Entertainment. Sketches have subsequently been broadcast by the BBC.

Mark has also written online material for E4's BAFTA winning series Misfits and currently has a television sitcom in development with Clerkenwell Films.

Mark is an Associate Artist of The National Theatre, and a founding director of Fifty Nine Productions, a film and new media production company that specialises in projection design for the stage. Design credits include War Horse (National Theatre / Lincoln Center Theater), Satyagraha (English National Opera), Doctor Atomic (Metropolitan Opera New York) and the stage show for Sigur Rós singer, Jónsi. Film production credits include the multi award-winning A Family Portrait, directed by Joseph Pierce which was longlisted for this year's Academy Awards for Best Animated Short.