Mark Rosenblatt and Claudia Rubenstein
The Making of ‘Giant’

Mark Rosenblatt is a writer and director for theatre and screen. He was Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse from 2013–16 and Associate Artist there until 2020. He was Associate at the National Theatre Studio from 2011 to 2013. He founded Dumbfounded Theatre in 2001. Giant is his first play. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2024 and won three Olivier Awards including Best Actor for John Lithgow and Best New Play. It also won the 2025 Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play, and Mark also won the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Stage Award for Best Creative West End Debut. Giant opens at the Music Box Theater on Broadway in March 2026. His screen work includes the award-winning, Oscar-qualified short film Ganef (as writer-director), co-writing Making Noise Quietly (Open Palm Films) and the screenplay of an upcoming thriller for Good Chaos, Film 4 and MUBI.

Claudia Rubenstein is the director of the Jewish Literary Foundation which presents Jewish Book Week, London’s oldest literary festival. She is an author of historical nonfiction under the pen name Claudia Gold. Her book, Women Who Ruled (2015), tells the stories of fifty of the world’s most famous—and often notorious—women rulers. The King’s Mistress (2012) is a biography of the extraordinary woman who became England’s first Georgian queen in all but name. Her latest book, King of the North Wind (2018), is a biography of Henry II, King of England and lord of much of modern day France. Claudia also writes for a number of publications, including the Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Oldie.