Ian Martin (writer)
Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English Emmy award-winning comedy writer.[1] Ian was a writer for the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Thick Of It.[2] He was famously hired as ‘swearing consultant’[3][4][5] in 2005 by the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci,[6] for Series 1 of the political satire and went on to become a full member of the writing team.[7]
Ian Martin is also a writer and supervising producer for the WGA Award winning[8] HBO series Veep,[9][10][11] having written on all seasons[12][13][14] and having acted the role of Dave Wickford in Season 2.[15] In 2014 Armando Iannucci described Ian Martin in the Washington Post as being “very good at making the language of political debate suddenly become nonsensical.”[16]
Ian Martin edits the satirical website MARTIAN FM,[17] he is a weekly columnist for the Architects' Journal[18] and a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper.[19]
He is the author of The Coalition Chronicles (2011)[20] a satirical and scatalogical account of a year in the parliamentary life of the Coalition government.[20] He was a leading contributor to The Missing DoSAC Files (2010).[21]
Other credits include writing additional material for the 2009 Oscar-nominated film In the Loop (film), the 2007 Armando Iannucci-created series Time Trumpet[22] and several series of the radio show Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive.
On 9 June 2014 Ian Martin gave a lecture at the Royal Academy in an evening hosted by writer and broadcaster Patrick Wright as part of the 2014 Festival of Architecture.[7]
Martin was born in London. He has lived in Lancaster since 1988. He is married with two children and three grandchildren.[citation needed]
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