Mark has always been a huge fan of pantomime. Mark Ravenhill's first play was produced by Out Of Joint and presented at the Royal Court Theatre before a successful transfer to the Theatre Upstairs at the  Ambassadors in 1996. This was the start of a successful career which includes productions  produced with the Royal National Theatre and further West End transfers.

His play, The Cut, starring Sir Ian McKellan, opened at the Donmar Warehouse in February 2006, directed by the award winning Michael Grandage. A month later Citizenship, a play about a boy's journey of self-discovery, opened at the Royal National Theatre.

Mark's one-man show, a brilliant satire called Product, was written for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and then transferred to the Royal Court Theatre in 2005. Still currently touring throughout Europe, this clever monologue concerns a script executive pitching his film to a young, unseen starlet, 'a Sienna Miller type' - but nothing's that straightforward.

My First Panto
I remember the principal boy singing the Carpenters' Top of the World at my first panto. I remember the jokes about local people and places. I remember the sweets being thrown into the audience. I remember the huge costumes of the Dame, each one vaster and sillier than the one before. I remember the excitement of roaring out all the behinds you and oh no he isn't, which we seemed to know as if by instinct. And I remember the bliss of singing along with the song sheet. I remember it so clearly because every year I get just the same thrill going to the pantomime. It's why I work in the theatre.

Mark will be appearing at Ravenhill10 Conference at Goldsmiths College 11-12 November 2006
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