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David
Farr
Playwright, novelist, director for theatre, television and film, and writer for television and film
David Farr is a playwright, screenwriter, stage director, novelist and Film/TV director whose plays have been performed all over the world. He has increasingly moved into film and television, working on the long-running BBC show Spooks and completing his first feature film, Hanna, for Focus Features in 2009. His directorial debut, The Ones Below, with Cuba Pictures premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and was released in UK cinemas in March 2016.
David's episode of the Philip K. Dick series Electric Dreams, entitled Impossible Planet, aired on Channel 4 in 2017 and his BBC1 and Netflix epic miniseries Troy: Fall of a City aired in February 2018. David adapted his feature film Hanna into a television series for Amazon Prime. Series 2 of Hanna was released to great praise in 2020, with David writing and directing. Series 3, the final series of Hanna, was released in 2021. Most recently David's adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos produced by Route 24 was released on Sky.
In 2009, David left The Lyric to become Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His productions, The Winter's Tale, King Lear and The Homecoming all opened to critical acclaim.
David's first book for children, The Book Of Stolen Dreams, was published in hardback in 2021 and in paperback in September 2022.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Nick Marston
+44 (0)20 7393 4450
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Theatre, Film and TV
Camilla Young
+44 (0)20 7393 4450
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Theatre, Film and TV
Katie Battcock
+44 (0)20 7393 4450
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Books
Steph Thwaites
+44 (0)20 7393 4411
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Translation Rights
Enrichetta Frezzato
+44 (0)20 7393 4421
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CV
Television
Writer & Director & Creator
The action thriller series based on David's feature film script returns for a second series.
Writer & Creator
TV adaptation of David's feature film Hanna (2011)
Television series set during the Trojan War
Writer & Director
Episode of Channel 4's ten part anthology series Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick
Writer
Adaptation of the John le Carre novel
New drama based on Misha Glenny's book about organised crime
Film
Writer & Director
Thriller about a couple whose new neighbours are not what they seem
Two men deliver a new fridge to a couple struggling with a newborn baby
Writer
Film set in the future when the Earth's water supply has run out
Adaptation of the novel HHhH by Laurent Binet about the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Thriller following the six days in 1980 when Islamic terrorists seized the Iranian embassy in London
Adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel
Theatre
Writer
Based on the critically acclaimed Danish film thriller Jagten (2012)
Commission from the National Theatre adapting the story by Rudyard Kipling
RSC's Christmas show with a new twist on the classic legend of Robin Hood
Satire on the cult of celebrity and television chat shows
Writer & Director
Collaboration between Filter and David exploring noise in its many forms
Adaptation of Gogol's The Government Inspector
Adaptation of John Milton's epic poem about the fall from grace of Adam and Eve
Play about a market researcher confronted by the ghost of a young woman
Original play with film components about a Hollywood director
Play about a grouchy hermit obsessed with Norman Whiteside's 1985 FA Cup goal
Director
Revival of Harold Pinter's play
Satirical allegroy of Hitler's rise to power with the action moved to Africa
Modern set production of the Shakespeare play
Buchner's play about the French Revolution
