Mark Burgess (playwright)
Mark Burgess is a British playwright and actor who appeared in Brookside as Gordon Collins. Burgess wrote and performed the one-man show The Man with the Golden Pen on the life of Ian Fleming.
Selected works
- Casting Shadows, centred on a discussion between Max Miller, Laurence Olivier and Terence Rattigan in 1962
- The Man with the Golden Pen, one-man play about Ian Fleming
- Einstein in Cromer, with David Suchet in the title role about Albert Einstein's stay in a small hut on Roughton Heath
- From Father with Love, on Ian Fleming's relationship with his son Caspar
- Sam O'Bedlam, centred on Samuel Beckett, played by Jim Norton
- The Wrong Hero, on the wartime life and death of Leslie Howard
- A King's Speech, on Lionel Logue and George VI
- Tales from Tate Modern, BBC Radio 4 Short Story
- Two Halves Of Guinness Stage Play
- Eel Pie Island short story BBC radio 4
- The Only Way, a one-act play to commemorate Bedford Modern School's 10 years of co-education, starring Chris Edge and Elsa Keep
- With Wings as Eagles, a play celebrating 250 years of Bedford Modern School, starring Gregor Copeland