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Martyna Majok

MARTYNA MAJOK

  
Nationality:    Polish and American
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by Olivier Sultan

Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland, and aged in North Jersey and Chicago. Her plays include Mouse in a Jar (Red Tape Theatre in Chicago, the LIDA Project in Denver), the friendship of her thighs (Jane Chambers Student Feminist Playwriting Prize, workshops at the Tank in NYC, the Playwright and Director Center of Moscow, and the Kennedy Center), Petty Harbour (Carlotta Festival for New Plays at the Yale School of Drama, readings at the Road Theatre in LA and New Jersey Repertory Company, finalist for the 2012 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting), and reWilding (Satori Group in Seattle and Yale Cabaret). Commissions: All Rise (Walkabout Theatre in Chicago). Martyna has been awarded the Merage Fellowship for the American Dream, the Olga and Paul Menn Award in Playwriting, a Ragdale residency, the Howard Stein Scholarship for Playwriting and a nomination for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project. Her short play, After Hours Stan, was produced in the Boston Theatre Marathon and published by Smith & Kraus. Martyna received an honors BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. She has taught playwriting at Wesleyan, the New Haven Co-Op High School, and NJRep, in addition to assisting a class taught by her mentor, Paula Vogel, at Yale. Martyna was the 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence at New Jersey Repertory Company.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         After Hours Stan         All Rise         Buffalo, Maine         Chernobyl         Cost of Living         Encounter, The         friendship of her thighs, the         Ironbound         John, who's here from Cambridge         Markers, The         Mouse in a Jar         move         New Play, A         Petty Harbour         queens         reWilding         Sanctuary City         Wondrous Strange         You Have (1) New Message

After Hours Stan

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All Rise

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Buffalo, Maine

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Chernobyl

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musical

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Cost of Living

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What is the road that brought us here? Unemployed truck driver Eddie sits at a bar alone, recalling his final moments with wife, Ani Luz, when a car accident turned the focus of their relationship from divorcing to caregiving. Overworked and underpaid, Jess takes on another job to make ends meet  this time, as a personal caregiver for a wealthy and beautiful graduate student named John, who has cerebral palsy. "Cost of Living" is a play that delves into the chasm between abundance and need and explores the space where bodies - abled and disabled, rich and poor - meet each other.

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Williamstown Theatre Festival     2016

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Encounter, The

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friendship of her thighs, the

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How you know what you need til you seen what you can get? A woman known only as Lady transforms her secluded, cliff-side house into a shelter for formerly abused women. Behind locked doors and windows, the young wards of the house rehearse recovery in the form of dances they perform once a year. Recently, Lady has been having nightmares and sleeping in the kitchen with a knife by her side. Tonight, the locks break and someone unexpected walks inside.

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Yale School Of Drama (Workshop Production), New Haven, Ct     18 Mov 2010

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Ironbound

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An immigrant woman waits for her late night bus in the shadows of a run-down Jersey factory. A man appears. A man always appears. And he's got something she needs. Spanning over 20 years, three relationships, and three presidents, what will two working class people trade and how dirtily will they fight for the cheapest safety in a world that does not value all kinds of people?

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Summer Playwrights Festival, The Road Theatre     2013

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dark comedy, drama, political

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John, who's here from Cambridge

John, who's here from Cambridge
Overworked, under-qualified, and broke, Jess takes on another job to make ends meet  as a personal caretaker for a graduate student named John. John has cerebral palsy. John is beautiful. And John is here from Cambridge. That is, Massachusetts. Where he went to undergrad, just in case you were wondering. One Friday night after the timesheet has been put away, music is played, assumptions are challenged, and two lonely people learn some things about each other.

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Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival     02 Mar 2014

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ten min dramatic comedy

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Markers, The

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Mouse in a Jar

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Before she knew she was my mother, a man put her in his cupboard cuz her country got too cold. In a basement apartment in New Jersey, two daughters live with their immigrant mother's Stockholm Syndrome for her abusive husband. When the eldest daughter goes missing one night, the youngest sets out to cure her mother and get them out.

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Red Tape Theatre, Chicago, Il     01 Oct 2009

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move

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Can you explain this? A young couple packs up their apartment after a traumatic event transpires inside. What goes with them and what stays behind? Two actors take on ten characters with inherited stories and inexplicable experiences. Inspired by Ovid's "Metamorphoses," this play of eastern european characters looks at our inability to comprehend certain events in our lives or the lives of our ancestors and why we may cling to these stories as definitions for ourselves.

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One Coast Collaboration     04 Jul 1905

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New Play, A

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An immigrant woman waits for the bus after a long day. A man appears. A man always appears. And he has something to offer.

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(reading) New Jersey Repertory Company
179 Broadway, Long Branch, New Jersey 07740     03 Jun 2013

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Petty Harbour

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Why's all ye li'l flies got to prove ye've some meanin to the world by breakin a part of it? On the rocky shores of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, a house stands against a storm. Outside, the boats cling to their anchors and the sea churns, waiting. One by one, three banished sons return home and discover their fisherman Father has turned the house that they grew up in into a church. Soon the roads will be flooded, the men will be sealed in, the drinking party and the war will begin. And the visitors will arrive. A mystery-thriller and poetic family Drama about women and power and the concept of forgiveness.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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Yale School Of Drama (Workshop Production), New Haven, Ct     05 May 2012

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queens

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reWilding

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Listen. If you listen, you can hear the sounds still. the sound of it, still. Listen. there is a place between civilization and wilderness, where an alternative community has set down roots and use of the past tense has been outlawed. It is a society of the foreign and forgotten, the lost and the seeking, where guitars play stories people don't speak about. Tonight, someone new arrives. A show with music, food and animals about people living off the grid in America in a hidden woodland community of memories and mysteries, strange humor and complicated beauty.

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Satori Group, Seattle, Wa     01 Mar 2013

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Sanctuary City

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Wondrous Strange

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You Have (1) New Message

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