The Tony Awards · CC BY 3.0

Marber's 1997 play Closer, translated into thirty languages and later a film he adapted himself, built its structure out of the mechanics of betrayal with a bluntness London theatre hadn't seen; it won the Olivier Award for Best New Play after his 1995 debut Dealer's Choice had already taken the Evening Standard comedy prize. His screenplay for Notes on a Scandal earned an Oscar nomination, and in 2023 he won a Tony Award for directing Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt on Broadway — a rare case of a playwright's own directing catching up to his writing.