Martin Wagner

Martin Wagner is a writer, film-maker and publisher living in London. A former film distributor and cinema programmer, his first short film Summer was shown at film festivals and on TV worldwide and won him the best director award at the Birmingham Film Festival. His first novel, Rachel's Machine, was published by Pinter & Martin in the UK and by Mondadori in Italy. He translated the play Speer, which was performed and directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer at London's Almeida Theatre. His documentary Klaus Maria Brandauer: Speer in London is about the period leading up to the premiere and has been shown on British TV channel Artsworld. In 2003 he published the acclaimed The Little Driver, which is used in Spain to educate children about traffic issues. This was followed in 2005 by The Little Politician, a biting satire on contemporary British politics. His short film, The Subtitles, was shown theatrically at the Cine Lumiere in the autumn of 2006. His first play The Agent had a successful run at London's Old Red Lion Theatre in March 2007, and has been translated into German and Polish. It was transferred to the West End, where it opened at the Trafalgar Studios in July 2007, and has been made into a film starring William Beck and Stephen Kennedy due for release in 2008.