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Marcus Lloyd grew up in London. He studied physics at Oxford University and drama writing with playwright Bernard Kops while supporting himself by working in the cloakroom of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1995 his first play, TAKING PICTURES, was a winner in the New London Radio Playwrights Festival. The following year he won BBC Television’s Double Exposure screenwriting award for his sixty-minute television play "A Relative Stranger," which was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1996 starring Jason Isaacs and Ioan Gruffudd. DEAD CERTAIN, his first stage play, was first produced in 1999 at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, and has since received a number of further productions in the U.K., New Zealand, Singapore, and the U.S. In 2001 Marcus’ screenplay "Cuckoo" won the prestigious Oscar Moore Screenwriting prize and the award, presented by Emma Thompson, enabled him to devote himself full-time to writing. He was subsequently commissioned to write a screenplay entitled “Wake Up Dead” for Stephen Garrett and Paul Webster at Kudos Film and Television. Other work includes the radio plays “Vacant Possession” (1997) and “The True Story Of Mr. Box” (1998), both for Independent Radio Productions, and a children’s play entitled THE FRONT TO BACK TOY SHOP.
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