Mark Espiner is a theatre director and freelance writer. He has contributed to the Sunday Times, Independent, BBC Radio 3, the Guardian and the Financial Times on music and the arts.
As co-artistic director of Sound&Fury, the theatre company he co-founded with Dan Jones and Tom Espiner, he has directed Christopher Logue’s War Music and The Watery Part of the World, a piece based on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick – both staged in total darkness with surround sound effects; Ether Frolics – an exploration of the history and contemporary practice of anaesthesia which was made in collaboration with artists from the Shunt Collective and presented at the Shunt Vaults, London, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on a short national tour in 2005; Names of the Dead, a staged musical war memorial to the dead of the Iraq war, created collaboratively with artist Mark Anstee, composer Stephen McNeff and the Duke Quartet which was performed at BAC, London in May 2005; and Kursk, which is currently on a national UK tour.
