Meet Mark Gatiss

Thursday 5th August 2010, 7.30pm

The Space is Brighton’s unique monthly arts and media event. We bring together the creative community with special guest interviews. Our 5th August event is presented by Briggy Smale with appearances from leading writer and actor Mark Gatiss, along with Academy Award nominee visual effects supervisor, Paul Franklin.

Venue: The Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton

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Admission

£7.50 on the door

(on door concession £5.00 with proof)

£6.50 for Online Advance Booking

Mark Gatiss is an actor, screenwriter and novelist, best known for his work within comedy, science fiction and supernatural drama. Mark was a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and is one of only three people to have both written for and acted in Doctor Who.

The League of Gentlemen (along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson), initially began as a stage act in 1995, transferred to BBC Radio 4 as On the Town with The League of Gentlemen in 1997 and then arrived on television on BBC Two in 1999. The latter has seen Gatiss and his colleagues awarded a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux.

Outside of the League, Gatiss' television work has included writing for the 2001 revival of comic telefantasy Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) and script editing the popular sketch show Little Britain in 2003, making guest appearances in both.

He took an on-screen role in one episode of Doctor Who in 2007 (Professor Lazarus in The Lazarus Experiment), making him only the third person and the first of the new series to both write for and act in the programme. In 2010, he contributed a voice part to Victory of the Daleks, which he wrote and which made him the first actor to play two different parts in the new series. Also in 2007, he appeared as Robert Louis Stevenson in Jekyll, a BBC One serial by his fellow Doctor Who scriptwriter Steven Moffat. He also made a guest appearance in Pemberton and Shearsmith's comedy series Psychoville.

Gatiss is currently working on Sherlock, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes series co-created by Steven Moffat, which is due for broadcast in the summer.

In mainstream print, Gatiss is responsible for an acclaimed biography of the film director James Whale. His first non-Doctor Who novel, The Vesuvius Club, was published in 2004, for which he was nominated in the category of Best Newcomer in the 2006 British Book Awards. A follow up, The Devil in Amber, was released on 6 November 2006. It transports the main character, Lucifer Box, from the Edwardian era in the first book to the roaring Twenties/Thirties. A third and final Lucifer Box novel, Black Butterfly, was published on 3 November 2008 by Simon and Schuster.

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