Mark Grimmer
Writer and producer for film, television and theatre
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Biography
Mark is a scriptwriter whose credits include Spilt Milk, which featured Ben Whishaw, Jodie Whittaker and Robert Bathurst and was awarded the Royal Television Society Student Award for Best Entertainment, online material for Misfits and Medics with Clerkenwell Films. He is also working on a project for the US market with Ed McDonald.
Mark is also a founding director of Fifty Nine Productions, a film and new media production company. Stage credits include War Horse (National Theatre / Lincoln Center Theater), Satyagraha (English National Opera), Doctor Atomic (Metropolitan Opera New York) and they are currently working on an adaptation of Solaris.
Film production credits include the multi award-winning A Family Portrait, directed by Joseph Pierce, which was longlisted for the 2012 Academy Awards for Best Animated Short and The Pub, which won the World Animation Award at Leeds International Film Festival 2012.
He is currently working on an original comedy pilot, Thin Ice, with Liz Meriwether and Ed Macdonald for Fox which will shoot in early 2017.
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Thin Ice centers on a woman who reclaims her dreams
when she finds herself at the end of the earth — in Antarctica — surrounded by a group of brilliant misfits.
Comedy pilot for Comedy Central about a group of misfit medical students
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A film adaptation of Mark O'Rowe's play Terminus for Film 4 with animation by Joseph Pierce