Mark Rosenblatt is a British theatre director and writer best known for his play The Giant, which opened in 2024 at the Royal Court Theatre and subsequently received a West End transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2025. Previously, he worked as a director, winning the JMK Young Director’s Award for his work on Julia Pascal’s The Dybbuk in 1999, followed by a production of CP Taylor’s play Bread and Butter (focused on the friendship of two Jewish men in Glasgow’s Gorbals).

Productions at the Arcola and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre followed, as well as work as a director at the Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse) and the National Theatre. He directed the Japanese premiere of Martin Crimp’s The Country, and specialised in directing palys by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Alan Ayckbourn, Eve Ensler, and others. He also tackled antisemitism in his production of Artur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi for his company Dumbfounded at the Arcola Theatre (2005).

The Giant opened in September 2024, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl. Rosenblatt has said that The Giant, which focuses on a meeting between writer Roald Dahl and his Jewish publishers, began in 2017, when the British debates about Israel and the Palestinian territories became blurred with antisemitic undertones:

“As a British Jew I became concerned about explicitly antisemitic stereotyping and prejudice. There was a lot going on in the period from the investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party and I was very aware of the language being used by people – sometimes deliberately, sometimes unconsciously. I felt quite passionate about it and I thought well, maybe we could find a way of dramatising it.” (in John Nathan, “Why I tackled Roald Dahl’s antisemitism in my Royal Court play”, The Jewish Chronicle, September 19, 2024).