Writing for Stage and Screen
In conversation with David Eldridge.
From the hit trilogy Beginning, Middle and End at the National Theatre, to The Scandalous Lady W on BBC Two and Betrayal on ITV, David Eldridge has become one of Britain’s most celebrated writers for both stage and screen. In conversation with Marlowe Dramaturg Leo Butler, David will share insights from a career spanning 30 years.
David Eldridge
David Eldridge is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His work is performed across the UK and internationally.
Original plays include, for the National Theatre, the trilogy Beginning, Middle and End, and Market Boy; Holy Warriors (Shakespeare’s Globe); at the Royal Court, In Basildon, Incomplete, Random Acts of Kindness and Under the Blue Sky (also West End; Best New Play, Time Out and Theatregoers’ Choice ); The Stock Da’wa and Falling (Hampstead); The Knot of the Heart (Almeida; Best New Play, the Offies); Something, Someone, Somewhere, M.A.D. and Serving It Up (Bush Theatre); and Summer Begins (Donmar Warehouse).
Adaptations include John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Chichester Festival Theatre), Strindberg’s Miss Julie; Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea (Royal Exchange), John Gabriel Borkman and The Wild Duck (Donmar Warehouse); Jean-Marie Besset’s Babylone (Belgrade Theatre); and Festen (Almeida, West End and Broadway; Best New Play, Theatregoers’ Choice).
Screenplays include The Scandalous Lady W (BBC Two), and Our Hidden Lives and Killers (BBC Four). Radio includes The Picture Man (Prix Europa, Best European Radio Drama). Betrayal (ITV Studios and Mammoth Screen) premiered in February 2026.
David is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London.