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Tony Marchant (born 11 July 1959) is a British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Lucky Ones and Raspberry. In 1999 he won the British Academy Television Awards Dennis Potter Award for services to television.
As a playwright and author of screenplays, Tony Marchant is known for his mastery of characterization and for depicting "people attempting to confound the expectation of their environment," as Marchant noted in Contemporary Dramatists.
Watch highlights from our Q&A with Tony Marchant from 2011 about his BBC One drama series, Garrow's Law. He discusses how he dramatised the original court transcripts and and how he turned his...
Oct 11, 2018 · Although Butterfly is fictional and written by playwright Tony Marchant, the inspiration behind the show is very real.
Jan 9, 2019 · BAFTA-winning screenwriter and playwright Tony Marchant, who wrote Butterfly, is no stranger to bringing trans characters to the screen – he wrote 1996’s critically acclaimed Different for Girls.
Apr 24, 2014 · Bafta-winner Tony Marchant, the man behind Garrow's Law and Holding On as well as a former writer-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre, had a similar realisation during a Paines Plough...
Tony Marchant won The 1999 Dennis Potter Award at BAFTA for his writing services to television.
