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Joe Martin was born on 1953 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States, is an American playwright, academic, and author. Discover Joe Martin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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1953

Joe Martin (pen name Yousef Daoud; born 1953 Norwalk, Connecticut) is a playwright, author, academic and theater director.

Martin has written two volumes of fiction, theatrical works, and essays on theater, arts in the Middle East, and religion.

He is a senior lecturer in theatre arts and studies (and the writing seminars) at Johns Hopkins University.

Martin received his undergraduate education at George Washington University where he studied American literature and creative writing.

1979

At the University of Bergen in Norway, he took exams in comparative literature in 1979.

Martin took his MFA in creative writing with a concentration in play writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he also studied directing in the Department of Theatre.

1985

Martin's play, The Dust Conspiracy won the Source Literary Prize in 1985.

He later produced Deceit: Or Crime with Class, and Forfeit: A Play in Twelve Rounds at the Source Theater Festival.

These plays and production credits are published in the collection Conspiracies: Six Plays.

1987

In 1987, Martin took his Ph.D. in comparative literature from UBC, with a concentration in drama.

After receiving several University Graduate Fellowships, the American-Scandinavian Foundation provided a fellowship for a year, divided between Norway (Universitetet i Oslo) and Sweden (Stockholmsuniversitet and Dramatiska Institutet).

Martin assembled his work into a dissertation and later a book on the Norwegian writer Jens Bjørneboe.

Then, he also published a book of translations of works by August Strindberg.

In Vancouver, he worked five years developing Open Theatre Projects, and co-directing classic plays, with Shakespearean actor Dermott Hennelly (Noel Burton) before leaving for Scandinavia.

In 1987, Martin produced the Strindberg Festival in Washington, D.C. . He directed The Ghost Sonata at Metro Stage (then American Showcase Theatre), and produced three Strindberg one-acts at Source Theatre and Carl XII in a staged reading at the Shakespeare Theatre Company.

1990

In the 1990s, he translated and created works from Mexico.

Martin taught from 1990 to 2001 in the Department of Performing Arts at American University.

In 1990 Martin met the actress Lisa Lias in a production of his play Anatole's Lover.

They later married, and worked on productions of international works for Open Theatre DC in collaboration with C.I.T.E., and later with TUTA Theatre and its director Zeljko Djukic (now relocated to Chicago.) They have one son, Beckett Lias Martin.

1994

With Iona Weissberg, he translated Mexican playwright's Juan Tovar's montage of works by Mexican author Juan Rulfo, The Crossroads (Los Encuentros), in 1994 (produced by Ensemble International in New York.) This led to a collaboration between Tovar and Martin on a work in both English and Spanish, El Trato, concerning an ill-fated attempt at a trade treaty between the US and Mexico in the mid-19th century eventually presented in Spanish by La Compañía Nacional de Teatro in Mexico City and at Gala Teatro Hispano in a staged reading in Washington DC.

An English readers-theatre version was produced by CITE and the Mexican Cultural Institute that toured the Washington area.

1997

In 1997 he and Lias two months in India investigating different performance forms, religious art, the revival of the Sanskrit drama at Benares Hindu University, and studied Buddhist philosophy at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala.

1998

He would later serve as dramaturg/consultant for Michael Kahn's production of Peer Gynt in 1998.

Martin's professional directing and producing credits for Open Theatre/CITE and Open Theatre/TUTA over 15 years included some of his own plays and adaptations: an epic play about the guillotine, Anatole's Lover: The Receiver; Parabola: Tales of the Wise and the Idiots (a dance theatre work choreographed by Anne Bassen); The Match Girl's SNOW QUEEN—created with DC composer Anna Larson --Woyzeck, with a score for live brass by Larrance Fingerhut, Three Plays by Brecht (or "The Wedding/The ChalkCross/The Beggar"), a touring production of Quartet by Heiner Mueller —both directed by Serbian ex-pat director Zejlko Djukiic, and later Strindberg's A Dream Play and Rumi's Mathnavi.

2000

In 2000, as a Fulbright Scholar in Romania, he taught American Drama at University of Bucharest, and directed the graduating class at the University of Theatre and Film in Jose Rivera's Marisol.

2002

In 2002–2006, Martin taught theory and criticism and devised theatre at Catholic University of America.

2004

The couple divorced in 2004, Martin continues to live in Washington DC.

2008

Since 2008, he has taught playwriting and dramatic literature as a senior lecturer for the Theatre Arts and Studies program at Johns Hopkins University.

2011

Later, he worked in Europe and the Middle East as a Fulbright Specialist in Theatre, directing and creating college arts curricula in Jerusalem and the West Bank in 2011, and in Bethlehem at Dar al Kalima University in 2014.

The two theatre projects culminated in essays collected in Staging Athol Fugard in Palestine--And other Essays.

2013

An epic play about a heroine of the French Resistance who was the daughter of a renowned Indian musician who first brought Sufism to the West, SOUNDWAVES: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan, presented first at The Brecht Forum, later by Bridge Theatre Group at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2013 and again by EnActe Arts Theatre.

2016

Other productions include his 2016 staging of Dario Fo's ''They Don't Pay?

We Won't Pay?--''revised before the Nobel prize winner's death, at Flashpoint Theatre in Washington DC.