Biography

Marcos Martinez,
Residence: San Marcos, CA

Marcos Martinez, Taos, New Mexico. Professor of Theatre in the Visual and Performing Arts Program at California State University in San Marcos. A graduate of the Juilliard School's Professional Actor Training Program he holds a Master's degree in Theatre from UNM. He studied with Tadashi Suzuki in Toga Mura, Japan Mr. Suzuki's Method of Actor Training which he has taught in the U.S. and in Mexico, Russia, Israel, Ghana, and several countries in Europe. He served as Artistic Director of La CompaÒÌa de Teatro de Alburquerque (1988-91) and was a co-founder of the company.

Directing projects, in conjunction with teaching Suzuki Method, include EngaÒos at Unversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City, Dario Fo's We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba and development of a cabaretó CafÈ Gr¸gg in the Faeroe Islands, Denmark, Dirty Works by Larry Brown and Richard Corley at the National Theater of Ghana, Al Suaal Theater, Israel, and Poaching in Taos, NM which he also wrote and produced. In March 1998 he directed Ay Compadre! by Rudolfo Anaya for the Latino Ensemble de San Diego which was also produced at Nosotros Theater in Hollywood. In Tijuana he conducted a bi-national theater project, "Las Formas de Cruzar" funded by the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture. Most recently directed and produced El Teatro de la Esperanza's La Victima which played to sold out houses in San Marcos, California.

Acting projects include performing in The Last Angry Brown Hat, hailed by KPBS radio as one of San Diego's ten best plays of 1996, Luis Valdez' Bandido, and touring his one-man show, Holy Dirt, presented throughout the Southwest, Denmark, Holland, and most recently (June 2005) in Bremen, Germany.