Through Pilot Theatre, and as a freelancer, Marcus has led many high profile arts events across the country:
He is a Founder Member of Mutiny – and in 2020 they created Covid19 Threads, Locus Solus in Roblox and the development od a new writing project with the University of East Anglia with funding from Arts Council England
The Great Exhibition of the North Marcus was on the bid writing team for The Great Exhibition of the North for Harrogate, and presented the bid for Bradford.
Created and delivered a new digital strategies for HOME in Manchester, Chichester Festival Theatre, Kettle’s Yard, Theatre Royal Stratford East, The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Harrogate Theatre.
ACE and Norwich City Council A research study for St. Andrews Halls in Norwich
Creative England Creative Director for the Eagle Lab Flight Programme in partnership with Barclays UK
International Indian Film Academy Awards Marcus and KMA created the opening event in 2007 at Sheffield Arena, for a live audience of 15,000 and a TV audience of 500 million
UNESCO Was part of the team that placed the winning bid to make York the UNESCO-designated ‘City of Media Arts’
Tour De France Organised the Cycle of Songs with HistoryWorksUK: the opening event of the Cambridge leg of the Tour de France 2014. The event featured a walking tour app that worked along the route of the race around the city with 9 originally commissioned songs geo-tagged to your location
Immersive Theatre Worked with SlungLow in August 2013 to produce Blood and Chocolate a fully immersive theatre show with 200+ actors that worked via headsets for all audience members and a walking tour across the city of York
Conferences Created the Shift Happens conferences, leading to the No Boundaries events to connect the Arts with technology and to shift thinking
Livestreaming Executed the first ever multi-camera livestream of the York Mystery plays, which enabled viewers to choose from 6 camera angles and to curate their own viewing for the BBC and The Space
Produced Reasons to be Cheerful by Graeae for The Space as a live to digital cinema release in 2018
Produced Theatre Royal Stratford East Christmas shows into Barts Health Trust as a livestream 2016 and 2017 for The Space
Produced Harrogate Theatre Jack and the Beanstalk – livestream to Harrogate NHS Foundation Trust for The Space
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