Justin Martin (director)

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Justin MArtin
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Justin Martin
OccupationDirector
Years active2000–present
Known for The Jungle
Prima Facie
Stranger Things:
First Shadow
Awards Full list

Justin Martin is an English director of television and theatre. He is known for his collaborations with director Stephen Daldry and has received a BAFTA TV Award as well as nominations for two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Drama Desk Award.

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Career

Martin is a multi-award-winning director working in theatre, film and television. He has a long collaboration with director Stephen Daldry, working as an associate director for Daldry’s award-winning productions of Skylight starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, The Audience starring Helen Mirren and The Inheritance, all of which played on the West End and Broadway. [1] [2] [3]

Martin's screen credits include work on the first two seasons of the award-winning Netflix period drama series The Crown [4] as well as overseeing hugely successful and record breaking National Theatre Live performances of Skylight (2014), [5] The Audience (2015), [6] and Prima Facie (2022). [7] In 2021 Justin co-directed the BAFTA award-winning film Together with Stephen Daldry starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama. [8] [9]

In 2019 Martin directed The Jungle at The Young Vic (2017), the West End (2018) and in New York at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York (2018). [10] [11] For his work he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play. [12] In 2021 he directed the West End production of Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer for which he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director. [13] The production transferred to Broadway at the Golden Theatre with Comer reprising her role. [14] He co-directed the play Stranger Things: The First Shadow , a prequel to the Netflix streaming series with Stephen Daldry at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End. Together they received a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Director. [15]

Activism

Martin is an associate artist with Good Chance Theatre - a company dedicated to making work with and about refugees. [16] He has directed a number of works for them, including most recently working on a number of promos for "The Walk" - a theatre festival spanning 8000 km from The Syrian border to Manchester. [17]

Credits

Television

YearTitleCreditNotesRef.
2013 The Audience Associate director National Theatre Live
2014 Skylight Associate directorNational Theatre Live
2016–2017 The Crown Second unit director Netflix series; 12 episodes
2021 Together Co-director BBC Television film
2022 Prima Facie DirectorNational Theatre Live
2023 The Lovers Director Sky Atlantic series; 6 episodes

Theatre

YearTitlePlaywrightCreditVenueRefs.
2011–2012 Billy Elliot Lee Hall Associate directorNational Tour [18]
2013Let the Right One In Jack Thorne Assistant directorApollo Theatre, London [19]
2013 The Audience Peter Morgan Associate director Gielgud Theatre, West End [20]
2015 Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway [21]
2014 Skylight David Hare Associate directorWyndhams Theatre, West End [22]
2015 John Golden Theater, Broadway [23]
2017–2018 The Jungle Joe Robertson
and Joe Murphy		Director The Young Vic, London [24]
2019 St. Ann's Warehouse, New York [25]
2018 The Inheritance Parts 1 & 2 Matthew López Associate directorThe Young Vic, London [26]
2020 Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway [27]
2022 Prima Facie Suzie Miller Director Harold Pinter Theatre, West End [28]
2023John Golden Theater, Broadway [29]
2023–2024 Stranger Things: The First Shadow The Duffer Brothers Director Phoenix Theatre, West End [30]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryProjectResultRef.
2019 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play The Jungle Nominated [31]
2022 BAFTA TV Award Best Single Drama Together Won [32]
2023 Laurence Olivier Award Best Director Prima Facie Nominated [33]
2024 Stranger Things: The First Shadow Nominated [34]

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