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Marcus Lloyd (born ) is an English dramatist and playwright known for works including Dead Certain and A Relative Stranger.
Marcus Lloyd is an English dramatist and playwright known for works including Dead Certain and A Relative Stranger....
Marcus Lloyd
English dramatist and playwright
Marcus Lloyd (born 1965) is an English dramatist and playwright known for works including Dead Certain and A Relative Stranger.[1]
Early life and education
Lloyd, the eldest of four children of opera singer Robert Lloyd, grew up in Finchley, London.
Having attended a local comprehensive school, he went on to study Physics at Worcester College, Oxford and then drama writing with playwright Bernard Kops while supporting himself working in the cloakroom of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Career and awards
In 1995 his first play, Taking Pictures was directed by Gerard Murphy. It starred Kevin Elyot and Rebecca Thorn and was a winner in the New London Radio Playwrights Festival.
The following year he won BBC Television's Double Exposure screenwriting award for his 60 minute television play, A Relative Stranger, which was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1996 starring Siobhan Redmond (Alison Fraiman), Suzanna