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Martin Jago is a British-American theatre director, poet, and multi-genre writer who lives between L.A. 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, Presence, HCE Review, Acumen,  and LIT Magazine, 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.
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He trained as an actor at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford where he was an F.H. Pasby finalist.