Martín Zimmerman is an American

bilingual Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all E ...

(English and Spanish)

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

. Zimmerman grew up speaking both languages. He attended

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, graduating with a BS

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theater studies Theatre studies (sometimes referred to as theatrology or dramatics) is the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psychobiological, sociological, and historical contexts. It is an interdisciplinary field which also e ...

and

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. He later attended

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

and received a MFA in

playwriting A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

Plays

Many of Zimmerman's plays have been performed for workshops and audiences alike winning awards and recognition. * ''Seven Spots on the Sun'' 2009–Present * ''White Tie Ball'' 2009-2013 * ''The Solid Sand Below'' 2012-2013 * ''Let Me Count the Ways'' 2014-2015 * ''The Making of a Modern Fold Hero'' 2011 * ''Stranger'' (working title) * ''In the Event of Capture'' * ''Three Movements'' * ''Coffee, Olive and Everything Between'' * ''Foreign Tongue'' * ''Teen Superhero Squad'' * ''The Trial of Winter'' * ''On the Exhale'' 2015-2016

Recognition

* Terrence McNally New Play Award * Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citation *

Humanitas Prize The Humanitas Prize is an award for film and television writing, and is given to writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced and meaningful way. It began in 1974 with Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser—also the founder of Paulist P ...

New Voices Award 2013 * McKnight Advancement Grant 2013 * Sky Cooper New American Play Prize 2013 * Carl Djerassi Playwriting Fellowship * National New Play Network Smith Prize * Alliance of Latino Theater Artists (ALTA) Artist of the Month

Venues

* Goodman Theater- Chicago, IL * Cincinnati Playhouse In the Park- Cincinnati, OH * Oregon Shakespeare Festival- Ashland, OR * La Jolla Playhouse- San Diego, CA * Roundabout Underground- NYC, NY * New York Theatre Workshop- NYC, NY * Victory Gardens Theater- Chicago, IL * Philadelphia Theatre Company- Philadelphia, PA * Marin Theatre Company- San Francisco, CA * The Playwrights' Center- Minneapolis, MN * Alliance Theatre- Atlanta, GA * A.C.T. (Seattle) *

PlayPenn PlayPenn is a new play development conference located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paul Meshejian is the Founding Artistic Director of the organization, which works with playwrights to develop new plays in a collaborative workshop environment. Si ...

- Philadelphia, PA * Icicle Creek Theatre Festival- Leavenworth, WA * American Theater Company- Chicago, IL * The Theatre @ Boston Court * Chicago Dramatists- * Primary Stages- NYC, NY * Teatro Vista- Chicago, IL * Seven Devils Playwrights Conference * Illinois Shakespeare Festival- Bloomington, IL * Borderlands Theater - Tucson, AZ * Source Festival- Washington DC * The Gift Theatre- Chicago, IL * Duke University- Durham, NC * The University of Texas- Austin * Red Tape Theatre- Chicago, IL

References

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