Marcus Romer is a writer, director and actor. He is currently the artistic director of Pilot Theatre in the U.K., and his plays Taken Without Consent and Out of Their Heads have been translated and performed in Europe and the United States. A graduate of Leeds University, his award-winning production of Lord of the Flies has toured for four years now (beginning in 1998) and his productions of Road and Rumble Fish toured extensively to great critical acclaim. Future work includes a new adaptation of Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess and a new Internet theatre project. Romer lives and works in York, England, with Susie Hargreaves and their two children, Christy and Millie.