Joel Marlin

Joel Marlin is the author of THE STATESMAN, a play produced by Metal Rabbit Productions at London’s Theatro Technis. His work has been developed at Naked Angels, the Arcola Theatre, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and funded by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. He has also worked as a writer for Electronic Arts and MTV Games’ ROCK BAND series (Best of Show, Game Critics Awards), written for The History Channel’s DECODED, and taught playwriting in New York City Public Schools....

Joel Marlin is the author of THE STATESMAN, a play produced by Metal Rabbit Productions at London’s Theatro Technis. His work has been developed at Naked Angels, the Arcola Theatre, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and funded by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. He has also worked as a writer for Electronic Arts and MTV Games’ ROCK BAND series (Best of Show, Game Critics Awards), written for The History Channel’s DECODED, and taught playwriting in New York City Public Schools.

The Statesman
www.metalrabbitproductions.com
Giant Bomb
www.giantbomb.com/joel-marlin/3040-90844
IMDb
www.imdb.com/name/nm3220483
Simon Paris
www.simonparis.co.uk/
Dramatists Guild
www.dramatistsguild.com/members/joelmarlin
YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXx8XVdEdqU&list=PLtzcfKkaJLdCuTzPUfVAlHY9B_onT…
Ikon London Magazine
www.ikonlondonmagazine.com/the-statesman-review-when-laughter-is-outlaw…
Made in Shoreditch Magazine
https://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2025/09/01/quentin-beroud-the-statesman/
NPX - The Statesman
https://newplayexchange.org/script/3249483/the-statesman

Scripts

The Statesman

by Joel Marlin

Synopsis

THE STATESMAN is the story of a humorless village and the bitter old man whose job it is to teach them to be funny. After a boy is banished for laughing, the people face a terrifying dilemma: to protect their way of life, they must become the very thing they are not.

THE STATESMAN is the story of a humorless village and the bitter old man whose job it is to teach them to be funny. After a boy is banished for laughing, the people face a terrifying dilemma: to protect their way of life, they must become the very thing they are not.