Justin Martin (director)

Justin Martin is an English director of television and theatre. He is known for his collaborations with director Stephen Daldry and has received a BAFTA TV Award as well as nominations for two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Drama Desk Award.

Career
Martin is a multi-award-winning director working in theatre, film and television. He has a long collaboration with director Stephen Daldry, working as an associate director for Daldry’s award-winning productions of Skylight starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, The Audience starring Helen Mirren and The Inheritance, all of which played on the West End and Broadway.

Martin's screen credits include work on the first two seasons of the award-winning Netflix period drama series The Crown as well as overseeing hugely successful and record breaking National Theatre Live performances of Skylight (2014), The Audience (2015), and Prima Facie (2022). In 2021 Justin co-directed the BAFTA award-winning film Together with Stephen Daldry starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama.

In 2019 Martin directed The Jungle at The Young Vic (2017), the West End (2018) and in New York at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York (2018). For his work he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play. In 2021 he directed the West End production of Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer for which he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director. The production transferred to Broadway at the Golden Theatre with Comer reprising her role. He co-directed the play Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the Netflix streaming series with Stephen Daldry at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End. Together they received a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Director.

Activism
Martin is an associate artist with Good Chance Theatre - a company dedicated to making work with and about refugees. He has directed a number of works for them, including most recently working on a number of promos for "The Walk" - a theatre festival spanning 8000 km from The Syrian border to Manchester.