MARCOS MARTINEZ
Marcos Martinez is currently a
Theatre Professor in the Visual and Performing Arts Program at California State
University, San Marcos. He holds a B.A. in Sociology, M.A. in Theatre from the
University of New Mexico and is a graduate of the Juilliard School’s
Professional Actor Training Program (Group 12). He began his career in the
theatre with Jose Rodriguez in La Compañía de Teatro de Alburquerque where he
was also a co-founder of the company and a former Artistic Director (1988-91).
La Compañia de Teatro de Alburquerque stands
out in the history of Latino theatre in the U.S. The company was responsible for providing
several of its members the experience and orientation to attend some of the
best theatre training programs in the English language including the Royal
Academy of Drama Art, London Academy of Dramatic Art, Yale, Juilliard, and UC
San Diego.
Professor Martinez has worked in film,
television and theatre directing dozens of productions including plays in
Bosnia, Ghana, and Faeroe Islands, Denmark. As an actor he toured his solo piece, Holy Dirt in
the U.S. and Europe and has worked with directors including Luis Valdez, Mako,
Robert Redford and Tadashi Suzuki.
Martinez uses The Suzuki Method of Actor Training both in teaching and directing and he has
taught this method in the U.S. and several countries in
Europe, Latin America, Africa, Russia and Israel. Professor Martinez
conducted a three-city lecture tour in China on Latino Theatre in the U.S.
(2006) and recently lectured on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training at Oxford
University (2010). In addition to numerous grants in support of his academic
and artistic activities, Professor Martinez is the recipient of 2007 Outstanding
Latino Cultural Award in Fine or Performing Arts from the American Association
of Hispanics in Higher Education. His
writings include articles, plays, and monologues dealing with the Latino experience
in the Southwest and Latino Theatre in the U.S. Recent directing projects include Actos, by Luis Valdez
(Fall 2010) and Moliere’s The Misanthrope (Spring 2011).
