Martín Zimmerman

Martín Zimmerman is a bilingual, Latinx playwright whose plays include On the Exhale and Seven Spots on the Sun and have been produced or developed at The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, Roundabout Underground, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Traverse Theatre, LCT3, New York Theatre Workshop, Victory Gardens Theater, Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, The Playwrights’ Center, Alliance Theatre, A.C.T. (Seattle), PlayPenn, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Primary Stages, Teatro Vista, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Foundation, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Illinois Shakespeare Festival and Borderlands Theater, among others.

A recipient of the Terrence McNally New Play Award, Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citation, Humanitas Prize New Voices Award, Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, McKnight Advancement Grant, Jerome Fellowship, Carl Djerassi Playwriting Fellowship, Scotsman Fringe First Award and the National New Play Network’s Smith Prize, Martín’s work for the screen includes being the creator/showrunner of the Spanish-language Netflix series Puerta 7, a writer/producer on Netflix’s Ozark and Apple TV’s Surface, and a staff writer on Netflix’s Narcos.

MFA in Playwriting: The University of Texas at Austin. BA in Theater Studies, BS in Economics: Duke University.