Howard Katz

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Marber's first play (Dealer's Choice) was about a poker game and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writer's Guild Award for Best West End Play. His second (Closer) about love, won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, the Critics Circle Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. The Broadway production won the 1999 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. His new play is a comedy about suicide. It completes a loose trilogy set in London at the turn of the century.

Patrick Marber was born in 1964. He began his career as a stand-up comedian and writer in 1986. He co-wrote and appeared in a number of radio and television programmes including The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You. In 1995 his first play, Dealer's Choice, premiered at the National Theatre in a production he also directed. Since then he has written plays and screenplays including After Miss Julie, Closer, Howard Katz, Don Juan in Soho, Notes on a Scandal and Love You More. He lives in London with his wife and their three children.

'[Patrick Marber is] the leading playwright of his generation.' Independent on Sunday 'The most assumed sense for dramatic rhythm of any English playwright to have emerged since Pinter.' Financial Times