Tony Marchant (playwright)
- Tony Marchant (playwright)
Tony Marchant (born 11 July 1959 in East London) is a British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for "The Lucky Ones" and "Raspberry". In 1999 he won the British Academy Television Awards Dennis Potter Award for services to television. His television work includes the acclaimed "Holding On" (1997), "Never, Never" and "Take Me Home".
He has also written the comedy film "Different for Girls".
He appeared on "University Challenge" (BBC Two) in a special actors-versus-writers episode in January 2006.
He is currently writing a series, "Whistleblowers", for ITV. And has a film, Mark of Cain" in production for C4.
Marchant has inspired a new generation of writers, most notably, Danny Brocklehurst and Jed Mercurio, who both cite him as an inspiration.
He was featured in the writers section of the Broadcast magazine Hot 100 2006. He lives in London.
External links
* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1670582,00.html "Are you sitting uncomfortably"] , by Danny Brocklehurst, "The Guardian", December 19, 2005.
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0545454/ Tony Marchant at the Internet Movie Database]
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