CURRENT RESIDENCE: Birmingham, Alabama
YEAR JOINED ENSEMBLE: 1991
POSITION: Actor, Director, Designer
AMERICAN BLUES THEATER CREDITS
Actor: Oklahoma! – Jeff Award nomination Musical-midsize; American Dead; The Trip to Bountiful; Working; The Threepenny Opera; Bus Stop – After Dark Award for Ensemble; Stalag 17; Tom and Jerry; The Homage That Follows; On the Waterfront; Monsters: Glimpses of Urban Lunacy.
Director: Five Presidents; It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago! (original direction 2004-2007; 2009-2014)
Sound Design/Original Scores: A Lie of The Mind – Jeff Award nomination for Original Music; Monsters: Glimpses of Urban Lunacy, Monsters II: Visiting Hours and Monsters III: The El Ride (with Joe Cerqua), Food from Trash (with Joe Cerqua); The Homage That Follows; The Million Bells of Ocean.
Projections Design: Speech and Debate (with Bobby Richards) – Jeff Award nomination for Projections Design
Music Director/Arranger: Desire Under The Elms
ABOUT MARTY
In addition to American Blues, Marty has worked in Chicago at Northlight Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Circle Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre and The Organic Theatre. Regional: The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and The Prince Theatre in Philadelphia. As a voice-over actor, Marty’s clients included Midas, Chevy Trucks, McDonald’s, Nutri-Grain and Cub Foods.
Marty is the founder of The Stage Channel (2001) and since has produced video content for more than 2,300 theatre and dance productions nationwide.
FUN FACT
When Marty moved to Chicago in 1988, he worked as a carpenter at Chicago Scenic Studios, as a database developer for Ameritech, and for a short time created custom floor lamps from vintage canister vacuums.