David Farr is a writer and director of film, television and theatre, who wrote and directed his debut feature film The Ones Below in 2015. The BBC and BFI film was selected for Toronto, London and Berlin International Film Festivals. In 2016 Farr adapted John le Carre’s The Night Manager into a six-episode miniseries for BBC TV and AMC. The show garnered 12 Emmy nominations.
Farr also wrote screenplays for the films Hanna (dir: Joe Wright
David Farr is a writer and director of film, television and theatre, who wrote and directed his debut feature film The Ones Below in 2015. The BBC and BFI film was selected for Toronto, London and Berlin International Film Festivals. In 2016 Farr adapted John le Carre’s The Night Manager into a six-episode miniseries for BBC TV and AMC. The show garnered 12 Emmy nominations.
Farr also wrote screenplays for the films Hanna (dir: Joe Wright 2010) and HHhH (dir: Cedric Jimenez 2016). He is currently writing a new Bernard Quatermass film for Legendary and a screenplay version of The Loney for Film 4. Other TV includes Spooks and McMafia for BBC and Troy - Fall of a City for BBC TV and Netflix.
Farr spent twenty years working in British Theatre. He was Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2009-2013, where he directed Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare and The Homecoming by Harold Pinter.
