Mike Bartlett

Playwright, Albion

Mike Bartlett is an award-winning playwright whose plays include:

• Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith, 2022)
• The 47th (Old Vic, London, 2022)
• Mrs Delgado (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2021)
• Vassa (Almeida Theatre, London, 2019)
• Snowflake (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2018; revived at Kiln Theatre, London, 2019)
• Albion (Almeida Theatre, 2017)
• Wild (Hampstead Theatre, 2016)
• Game (Almeida Theatre, 2015)
• King Charles III (Almeida/West End/Broadway, 2014-15)
• An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford Palace Theatre)
• Bull (Sheffield Theatres/Off-Broadway)
• Medea (Glasgow Citizens/Headlong)
• Chariots of Fire (based on the film; Hampstead/West End)
• 13 (National Theatre)
• Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough/Plymouth Drum/Royal Court)
• Earthquakes in London (Headlong/National Theatre)
• Cock (Royal Court/Off-Broadway)
• Artefacts (Nabokov/Bush)
• Contractions and My Child (Royal Court)

He was Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre in 2011, and the Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007. He has won numerous awards:

• Cock won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre in 2010
• Love, Love, Love won the TMA Best New Play Award in 2011
• Bull won the same award in 2013
• King Charles III won the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play in 2015

He has written several plays for BBC Radio, winning the Writers' Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking. 

His work for television includes:

• Press (BBC One, 2018)
• Trauma (ITV, 2018)
• Two series of Doctor Foster (BBC One, 2015 and 2017, Best New Drama at the National Television Awards)
• The Town (ITV1, 2012)