Mark Espiner

Mark Espiner is a writer, journalist and theatre director.

As a journalist, writer and cultural commentator Mark has contributed to the Guardian, Sunday Times, BBC Radio 3, Evening Standard, Time Out and the Financial Times on music and the arts. He wrote a regular column for Berlin’s daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and has also provided on-air cultural commentary for Deutsche Welle TV, Germany’s international broadcaster.

As co-artistic director of Sound&Fury, the theatre company he co-founded with Dan Jones and Tom Espiner, he has co-directed all of the company’s work to date.

His other theatre credits include working with Tom Morris on David Glass’s one-man show Disembodied (BAC) and Names of the Dead, a staged musical war memorial to the dead of the Iraq war, created collaboratively with visual artist Mark Anstee, composer Stephen McNeff and the Duke Quartet (BAC) and he directed the premiere of The Highs and Lows of Owning Your Own Home by Glen Neath (Acud, Berlin).

He lives and works in Berlin.