Mark Burgess (playwright)

For other people with the same name, see Mark Burgess.

Mark Burgess (born 1959)is a British playwright and actor who appeared in Brookside as Gordon Collins. Burgess wrote and performed the one-man show The Man with the Golden Pen on the life of Ian Fleming.^[1]

Selected works

• Casting Shadows, centred on a discussion between Max Miller, Laurence Olivier and Terence Rattigan in 1962 (1999)^[2][3]
• The Man with the Golden Pen (original title: Fleming's Bond), one-man play about Ian Fleming (2000)^[4]
• Einstein in Cromer, with David Suchet in the title role about Albert Einstein's stay in a small hut on Roughton Heath (2004)^[5]
• From Father with Love, on Ian Fleming's relationship with his son Caspar (2006)^[6]
• Sam O'Bedlam, centred on Samuel Beckett, played by Jim Norton (2006)^[7][8]
• The Wrong Hero, on the wartime life and death of Leslie Howard (2008)^[9][10]
• A King's Speech, on Lionel Logue and George VI (2009)^[11]
• Tales from Tate Modern, (A Modern Love Story) BBC Radio 4 Short Story (2010)^[12]
• Two Halves Of Guinness Stage Play (2011)
• Eel Pie Island short story BBC radio 4 (2012)
• The Only Way, a one-act play to commemorate Bedford Modern School's 10 years of co-education, starring Chris Edge and Elsa Keep (2013)
• With Wings as Eagles, a play celebrating 250 years of Bedford Modern School, starring Gregor Copeland