Mark Leipacher

Mark Leipacher is a director and writer working in the UK and internationally. He is from the Black Country and is based in London.

As Artistic Director of The Faction ensemble he has won the Peter Brook Award, Off West End Award and was nominated for the Off West End Award for Best Director. His productions for The Faction include Macbeth (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Douglass by Bonnie Greer (Wilton’s Music Hall), Much Ado About Nothing (ReFashioned Theatre), Mary Stuart (UK tour and international), Twelfth Night and The Robbers (New Diorama Theatre).

His forthcoming work includes a transnational and multilingual version of Shakespeare’s Pericles collaborating with artists from Greece, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Turkey and the UK, and a new piece of music theatre adapted from Herman Melville’s Billy Budd.

As a writer, Mark’s stage adaptations include The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello, and four Schiller plays (co-adapted with Daniel Millar). He is the author of Catching The Light: Sam Mendes and Simon Russell Beale published by Oberon Books/Bloomsbury Methuen.

As an Associate and Assistant Director, credits include Design for Living (with Tom Burke, Lisa Dillon and Andrew Scott) directed by Anthony Page at the Old Vic, and Private Peaceful directed and adapted by Simon Reade at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

Mark trained on the National Theatre Directors Course and at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is Affiliated Faculty at Syracuse University London and has directed at many drama schools including RADA, East15, Mountview, Drama Studio London and YATI.

He is represented by Rachel Daniels at Berlin Associates.