David Farr Books

David Farr was born and raised in a small town in Surrey. His father is English and loves nature and his mother is a descendant of German-Jewish grandparents who helped their children escape Germany for England in the Second World War.

David studied English at Cambridge University where he co-founded Cambridge Talking Tongues, a small theatre company, alongside two female friends, including actor Rachel Weisz. They won a Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1991. He went on to be a theatre director of Bristol Old Vic, London’s Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company. His screenwriting credits include the multi- award-winning The Night Manager, Spooks, Hanna, and the Sky production of The Midwich Cuckoos starring Keeley Hawes. David and the late John le Carré became friends while working on the screen play for The Night Manager.

As an ancestor of those German child refugees who lost everything when they fled, including their German citizenship and identity, David was proud to have campaigned for the Article 116 Exclusion Group against a gender discriminatory loophole in German law and to have recently reclaimed his own German citizenship.

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