Artist

Matt Charman is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning British playwright. His debut play A Night at the Dogs premiered at the Soho Theatre and won the Verity Bargate Award 2004. He has had three world premieres at London’s National Theatre, including The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder in 2007 and The Observer in 2011 (directed by Sir Richard Eyre), for which he won the Catherine Johnson Award. In March 2012, his play Regrets, starring Ansel Elgort, received its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club. This was followed by The Machine which opened at the Manchester International Festival, before being staged in New York at the Park Avenue Armory.

For the screen, Charman co-wrote Bridge of Spies (2015), a Cold War thriller directed by Steven Spielberg and film starring Tom Hanks, Alan Alda and Mark Rylance. It earned Charman a BAFTA, Academy Award and WGA nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Previously, he co-wrote Suite Francaise (2014) with director Saul Dibb, starring Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas and Margot Robbie. Charman’s current film projects include his directorial debut for MRC Studios. He has written an adaptation of the Alan Gratz novel Refugee and a feature, Honorable Exit, for Warner Bros.

Charman is based in London working with established and emerging writers across a variety of TV and feature film scripts. He is producing these projects through his London-based production company, Binocular.