Joe Martin

Playwright, novelist and theatre director, Joe Martin's

works comprise an international and experimental
exploration into the border regions between the spiritual
cosmos and the cultural-political world.

He is the recipient of various grants and awards as a
writer and director, including a Fulbright Senior
Fellowship in Theatre, and grants from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the American Scandinavian Foundation, the
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, among
others. In 2002 Martin was selected to serve on the roster
of Senior Fulbright Senior Specialists, as a theatre artist
in Eastern Europe. He was reappointed in 2011, for work
in the Middle East.

Also active as a translator of drama from Swedish,
Norwegian and Spanish, he has translated many works of
August Strindberg, as well as Jens Bjorneboe, and Juan
Tovar.

A director and dramaturg of over fifty stage productions
in the US, Canada and Europe, his choices have included
both originals and classic works: The Ghost Sonata
(Washington 1988), Parabola: Tales of the Wise and the
Idiots (Washington, 1990), Anatole's Lover (Washington
1991), Woyzeck (1993), The Match Girl's SNOW QUEEN
(Washington 1995), Three Plays by Brecht: The
Wedding/The Chalk Cross/The Beggar (with Zeljko
Djukic, 1997), Rumi's MATHNAVI (Washington and New
York, 1998-2001), and Jose Rivera's Marisol (Bucharest,
2002). In 2013 his epic play SOUNDWAVES: The Passion of Noor
Inayat Khan was produced in New York City by Bridge Theatre
Group in association with the NYC International Fringe
Festival

Martin is a senior lecturer in the Department of Theatre
Arts and Studies, Johns Hopkins University; and Creative
Writing at George Washington University. He is currently
a resident fellow in the arts at the Center for Global
Peace, Washington DC.