Marcus is an award winning Theatre Director, Writer and Filmmaker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He has been an Associate Artist at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Artistic Director for the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, and Associate for National Theatre Wales. He is currently Associate Producer for Harrogate Theatre where he also programmes work that goes into the Theatre, Royal Hall and the Convention Centre.

Prior to this he was Artistic Director and CEO of Pilot Theatre for 23 years. Here he led this Arts Council England national touring company. He directed many award-winning theatre productions including ‘Lord of the Flies’ ‘Beautiful Thing’ ‘Looking for JJ’ ‘Antigone’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’. He directed ‘Loam’ at Bristol Old Vic, ‘Our Town’ ‘Two’ ‘Ghosted’ and ‘Shanty’ for Sheringham most recently.

As a filmmaker he wrote the screenplay and directed the feature film ‘The Knife That Killed Me’ which was released by Universal Pictures in 2015. He has taught and Directed at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School between 2019 and 2022. He is now an Associate Tutor at Coventry University Scarborough for their Acting Degree course.

He is also a published playwright and his work has been translated and performed across Europe and the USA.