Martin Jago is a British-American theatre director and poet who lives between Los Angeles and London and works internationally. A respected authority on acting methods relating to Elizabethan and Jacobean texts, he is the author of four critically-acclaimed books on Shakespeare, published in the United States by Smith & Kraus.
His poetry and prose have been published in literary magazines such as Agenda, The Moth, Acumen, LIT Magazine, Presence, HCE Review and Naugatuck River Review (forthcoming). He recently began a new writing adventure in YA Fiction, drawing on his experience as a commissioned playwright for one of the U.K.'s leading Theatre-In-Education companies.
Producing Artistic Director at RAZE THE SPACE, the theatre ensemble produces cutting-edge contemporary and classical theatre with global focus and community impact epitomized by events such as RAZE's annual international ten-minute play festival at the Mark Taper Auditorium in Los Angeles.
After several years as Associate Producer at Directors Lab West Martin recently became a member of DLW's Steering Committee. He also teaches acting far and wide, from on-camera classes at the Actors Centre London to Shakespeare Masterclasses at the Malibu Playhouse.
He trained as an actor at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and holds a Master's in Creative Writing from Kellogg College, University of Oxford where he was an F.H. Pasby finalist.
His poetry and prose have been published in literary magazines such as Agenda, The Moth, Acumen, LIT Magazine, Presence, HCE Review and Naugatuck River Review (forthcoming). He recently began a new writing adventure in YA Fiction, drawing on his experience as a commissioned playwright for one of the U.K.'s leading Theatre-In-Education companies.
Producing Artistic Director at RAZE THE SPACE, the theatre ensemble produces cutting-edge contemporary and classical theatre with global focus and community impact epitomized by events such as RAZE's annual international ten-minute play festival at the Mark Taper Auditorium in Los Angeles.
After several years as Associate Producer at Directors Lab West Martin recently became a member of DLW's Steering Committee. He also teaches acting far and wide, from on-camera classes at the Actors Centre London to Shakespeare Masterclasses at the Malibu Playhouse.
He trained as an actor at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and holds a Master's in Creative Writing from Kellogg College, University of Oxford where he was an F.H. Pasby finalist.
