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Joe Martin

JOE MARTIN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Joe Martin is the author of over 40 plays and adaptations for the stage, some of which are included in Conspiracies: Six Plays by Joe Martin. He is a two time recipient of Rockefeller Foundation grants (the US-Mexico Fund for Culture and a New Forms grant through Painted Bride) and two senior Fulbright fellowships, and has received multiple Arts grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He has translated and/or adapted for the stage Rumi's Mathnavi; Strindberg's A Dream Play, the Ghost Sonata and the Dance of Death; Jens Bjporneboe's Semmelweis;Buchner's Woyzeck; H.C. Anderson's the Match Girl's Snow Queen; and Schiller'sthe Robbers, among many others.

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

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below is a list of Joe Martin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ceo         Faith         Lion Tale         Rumi's Mathnavi         Semmelweis         SOUNDWAVES: the Passion of Noor Inayat Khan

Ceo

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Original Playwright - Stig Larsson ; translated from the Swedish (V.D) by Joe Martin

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Colombine teaterforlag,    -

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Translation

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Faith

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Lion Tale

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the animals in the forest have agreed to send one of their own to the Lion each day so that he will not go on a rampage and destroy their lives. But when the trickster Rabbit is chosen to be sacrificed, he comes up with a plan to appeal to the Lion's ego and possibly save the animals forever. Lion Taleblends a variety of musical styles (gospel, rap, folk music) with traditional African dance to create a truly unique comedy.

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Prince George's Children's Theatre (Tour) (Riverdale, Md, United States)    

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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45-60 min Comedy for young audiences

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Rumi's Mathnavi

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Written by: Joe Martin And Mahmood Karimi-Hakak

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Semmelweis

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Dr Ignaz Semmelweis the founder of modern antiseptic techniques. But at the time he put forward his theory that unclean hands of doctors were causing harm he was ridiculed, dismissed from his position at the Vienna General Hospital and driven into exile and madness.

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Original Playwright - Jens Bjorneboe

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Sun and Moon Press, 1999   -

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SOUNDWAVES: the Passion of Noor Inayat Khan

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Madeleine -- French Resistance heroine: in reality a young Sufi woman, daughter of a renowned Indian mystic, musician, children's author, devotee of non-violence and skillful secret agent against Nazism. An epic play beginning in a spiritual household, ending in Dachau.

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Music: Maitreya Padukone

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Csv Flamboyan, New York Festival Fringe    

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Bridge Theatre Group

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