Marc Blake

Marc’s first two-hander play, Area 52, premiered at the Tristan Bates Theatre and played in Southampton and various London venues. A shorter piece on online dating, Sw1pe, was performed at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick. Both were presented at Player Playwrights, as was his recent full-length play, Private View, (in which a priceless masterpiece goes missing). It played to sold-out houses at Greenwich Studio Theatre in November 2025, was published by TSL books and is due for a run in the main house at Greenwich Theatre. 

  

His 60-minute comedy, How Far is Lunch (about the business of tour directing) ran at the Etcetera Theatre for the Camden Fringe Festival and, later, at the Karma Sanctum Hotel. He has presented Smothered (60 mins) Me Three (60 mins) and Axman (90 mins) at Player Playwrights. Axman was later made into a feature film and is now available on Amazon Kindle. In 2026 he and his fiancée premiered their two-hander sketch comedy show, The MnM Show at PP. It will be running at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden in November. His next full-length play is entitled Lady Muck. He directed all the above works. 

 

Marc’s two-part television drama The Swap (Greenlit Productions. Dir: David Drury) was broadcast on ITV in the early 2000s to a viewing audience of 6 million. Marc was originally a standup comic, whose BBC Radio 4 series Whining for England went out in 1994. He has written for many beloved comedians, such as Roy Hudd, Frankie Howerd and Bobby Davro. He has published three novels, Sunstroke, Bigtime and 24 Karat Schmooze for Hodder Headline, as well as non-fiction books, Writing the Horror Movie, How NOT to Write Sitcom and Writing the Comedy Movie for Bloomsbury. Two other books on comedy writing are available online or as POD from Acorn books. His teenage historical horror novel Spirit of the Blitz is also available on Amazon. 

 

Having recently retired from lecturing at various universities, Marc is now a London Blue Badge Tourist Guide.