Justin Martin (director)

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]

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]