Mark
Rosenblatt - Selector
 Mark is a freelance theatre director and
Artistic Director of Dumbfounded Theatre, an Associate
Company at the Young Vic.
After studying English Literature at Oxford
University, Mark won the prestigious 1999 JMK Trust Young
Director Award for his adaptation of S. Anski’s The
Dybbuk and joined Oxford Stage Company, directing W.
Somerset Maugham’s The Circle in a
co-production with Salisbury Playhouse. Mark revived the
production twice, first for OSC and then as a No.1
commercial tour. His other freelance work includes The
Tempest (National Theatre), A Passionate Woman
(Northampton Theatres) and The Taming Of The Shrew
(Thelma Holt Ltd/Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and The
Leningrad Siege by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra (Tron &
Wilton’s Music Hall).
In 2001, he formed Dumbfounded Theatre and
directed CP Taylor’s Bread and Butter at
Southwark Playhouse. Bread and Butter toured
Scotland (in a co-production with Oxford Stage Company) in
2003 and transferred to London’s Tricycle Theatre in 2004.
In 2005, Dumbfounded and Oxford Stage Company co-produced
The Last Waltz Season at the Arcola Theatre in
Hackney, presenting new translations of Frank Wedekind’s
Musik, Gerhart Hauptmann’s Rose Bernd
and Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi
in repertory with a company of 16 actors. Mark’s production
of Professor Bernhardi will be broadcast on
Radio 3 in 2007.
He has also directed recordings of
Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BAFTA
nomination) for Kartouche Audio/Penguin. He is currently
developing a play about Nina Simone for Dumbfounded and is
under commission to write a screen adaptation of The
Circle.
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