Ian Martin

Ian Martin is an Emmy award-winning comedy writer and producer. His screen credits include the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Thick of It (for which he was originally brought in by Armando Iannucci as 'swearing consultant'); BAFTA-nominated The Death of Stalin (National Society of Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay); the multi-Emmy award-winning Veep (for which he won an Emmy and two Writers Guild of America Awards) and HBO's Avenue 5 . He also wrote for the Oscar-nominated film In The Loop ....See more

Ian Martin is an Emmy award-winning comedy writer and producer. His screen credits include the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Thick of It (for which he was originally brought in by Armando Iannucci as 'swearing consultant'); BAFTA-nominated The Death of Stalin (National Society of Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay); the multi-Emmy award-winning Veep (for which he won an Emmy and two Writers Guild of America Awards) and HBO's Avenue 5 . He also wrote for the Oscar-nominated film In The Loop . His comedy-drama The Hartlepool Spy won the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama in 2020. He has written for the Architects' Journal, New Statesman, the Observer and the Guardian . His experimental prose poem PANIC was set as a GCSE English question in 1998. From 2000-2005 he edited the cult satirical website martian.fm. His previous books include Epic Space, The Coalition Chronicles and Lost In The Attic . He lives in Lancaster, where he runs a primary school writing workshop. The workshop's first screenplay - Tig - was shot and released as a short film in 2024. See less