Mark Tonderai

Mark Tonderai (born 1974) is a British-Zimbabwean entrepreneur, film director, writer, actor and former disc jockey. He is co-founder of the London-based production company Shona Productions with his wife Zoe Stewart. He directed the crime drama television series The Five which first aired in April 2016 on the Sky 1 channel.

Career Radio Tonderai began his career in the media working as a writer, producer and presenter for radio.

From early 1993 until late 1998 Tonderai was heavily involved in radio, and was the writer and producer of The Mark Tonderai Show, hosted on BBC Radio 1, and the Jam. Tonderai was also involved in numerous BBC Radio 4 projects, such as the Worldly Wise, Rainbow Nation and Week Ending, as well as Kiss 100's Rude Awakening, hosted on Kiss 100 London. A psychological thriller, starring William Ash and Christine Bottomley Hush is a British horror/thriller film about a young couple on a motorway journey who are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver following a near accident.

Tonderai and producer Mark Herbert from Warp X are in talks to co-produce Tonderai's next script, another thriller called I Die at Midnight. Film industry magazine Screen International has reported that Tonderai has his next five films already planned, including a Western called Stance.

In the summer of 2010, he directed the psychological thriller House at the End of the Street, based on a short story from Jonathan Mostow. The A Bigger Boat film is written by David Loucka. Filming of House at the End of the Street took place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and it was released in September 2012.

Filmography Film Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), actor Dog Eat Dog (2001), writer/actor Hush (2008), director/writer/executive director House at the End of the Street (2012), director Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2018), writer Spell (2020), director

Television The Five (2015), director 12 Monkeys (2015), director Paranoid (2016), director Time After Time (2017), director Lucifer (2017), director Gotham (2017-2019), director Black Lightning (2018), director Doctor Who (2018, 2023), director Impulse (2018-2019), director Tell Me a Story (2018), director Nightflyers (2018), director Daybreak (2019), director Castle Rock (2019), director Locke & Key (2020–2021), director Big Sky (2021), director The Mysterious Benedict Society (2021), director Foundation (2023), director Fire Country (2024), director Will Trent (2025), director