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{{Short description|American writer (including playwright) and academic (born 1953)}}
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'''Joe Martin''' (pen name '''Yousef Daoud'''; born 1953 [[Norwalk, Connecticut]]) is an American writer (including [[playwright]]), academic and [[theatre director]].

Martin has written two volumes of [[fiction]], theatrical works, and essays on theater, arts in the [[Middle East]], and religion. He is a senior lecturer in theatre arts and studies (and the writing seminars) at [[Johns Hopkins University]].

== Education ==
Martin received his undergraduate education at [[George Washington University]] where he studied [[American literature (academic discipline)|American literature]] and [[creative writing]]. At the [[University of Bergen]] in Norway, he took examinations in [[comparative literature]] in 1979. Martin earned a [[Master of Fine Arts]] degree in creative writing with a concentration in play writing at the [[University of British Columbia]] (UBC) in [[Vancouver]], where he also studied directing in the Department of Theatre.

In 1987, Martin earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree in comparative literature from UBC, with a concentration in [[drama]].

After receiving several university graduate fellowships, [[The American-Scandinavian Foundation]] provided a [[fellowship]] for a year, divided between Norway ([[Universitetet i Oslo]]) and [[Sweden]] ([[Stockholmsuniversitet and Dramatiska Institutet]]). Martin assembled his work into a [[Thesis|dissertation]] and later a book on the [[List of Norwegian writers|Norwegian writer]] [[Jens Bjørneboe]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3OXQgAACAAJ|title=Keeper of the Protocols: The Works of Jens Bjørneboe in the Crosscurrents of Western Literature|last=Martin|first=Joe|date=1996|publisher=P. Lang|isbn=9780820430379|language=en}}</ref> Then, he also published a book of translations of works by [[August Strindberg]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peterlang.com/search?q1=Strindberg--Other+Sides&searchBtn=|title=Strindberg--Other Sides. New York, Bern: Peter Lang Publishers|language=en|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref>

==Career==
===Artistic career===
In Vancouver, he worked for five years developing Open Theatre Projects, and co-directing classic plays, with [[Shakespearean]] actor Dermott Hennelly (Noel Burton) before leaving for [[Scandinavia]].

Martin's play ''The Dust Conspiracy'' won the Source Literary Prize in 1985. He later produced ''Deceit: Or Crime with Class'', and ''Forfeit: A Play in Twelve Rounds'' at the [[Source Theater Festival]]. These plays and production credits are published in the collection ''Conspiracies: Six Plays''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Conspiracies: six plays|last=results|first=search|date=1998-01-01|publisher=Aran Press & Press Open|isbn=9780965671200|edition= 1st|location=Louisville, Ky.; Washington, DC|language=English}}</ref>

In 1987, Martin produced the [[Strindberg Festival]] in Washington, D.C. He directed ''[[The Ghost Sonata]]'' at Metro Stage (then American Showcase Theatre), and produced three Strindberg one-acts at Source Theatre and ''[[Carl XII (play)|Carl XII]]'' in a staged reading at the [[Shakespeare Theatre Company]]. He would later serve as [[Dramaturge|dramaturg]] and consultant for [[Michael Kahn (theatre director)|Michael Kahn]]'s production of ''[[Peer Gynt]]'' in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/peer-gynt-97-98/|title=Shakespeare Theatre Company {{!}} Peer Gynt 97–98 – Shakespeare Theatre Company|website=www.shakespearetheatre.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref>

Martin's professional directing and producing credits for Open Theatre/CITE and Open Theatre/TUTA over fifteen years included some of his own plays and adaptations: an epic play about the guillotine, ''Anatole's Lover'', ''The Receiver'', ''Parabola: Tales of the Wise and the Idiots'' (a dance theatre work choreographed by Anne Bassen), ''The Match Girl's SNOW QUEEN'' – created with D.C. composer Anna Larson<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://annalarson.org/compositions.html|title=compositions.html|website=annalarson.org|access-date=2018-06-12|archive-date=2016-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021054131/http://annalarson.org/compositions.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>--''Woyzeck'', with a score for live brass by Larrance Fingerhut, ''Three Plays by Brecht'' (or ''"The Wedding/The ChalkCross/The Beggar"''),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tutatheatre.org/about-the-weddingthe-chalk-cross-the-beggar/|title=The Wedding/The Chalk Cross/The Beggar|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref> a touring production of ''Quartet'' by [[Heiner Müller|Heiner Mueller]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/13014739/quartet|title=Quartet|work=Washington City Paper|access-date=2018-06-12|language=en}}</ref>—both directed by [[Serbian people|Serbian]] [[expatriate]] director Zejlko Djukiic, and later Strindberg's ''[[A Dream Play]]'' and ''[[Rumi]]'s [[Masnavi|Mathnavi]].''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.joemartin.us/page5a.html|title=page5a|website=www.joemartin.us|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref>

In the 1990s, he translated and created works from Mexico. With Iona Weissberg, he translated Mexican playwright Juan Tovar's montage of works by Mexican author [[Juan Rulfo]], ''The Crossroads'' (''Los Encuentros)'', in 1994<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/29/theater/in-performance-theater-670936.html|title=In Performance: Theater|author-link =Ben Brantley | last=Brantley|first=Ben|work= [[The New York Times]] |date=29 October 1994 |access-date=2018-06-12|language=en}}</ref> (produced by Ensemble International in New York.) This led to a collaboration between Tovar and Martin on a work in both English and Spanish, ''El Trato'', concerning an ill-fated attempt at a trade treaty between the U.S. and Mexico in the mid-19th century eventually presented in Spanish by [[La Compañía Nacional de Teatro]] in [[Mexico City]]<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Tovar|first1=Juan|last2=Martin|first2=Joe|date=1998|title=El trato|url=https://cdigital.uv.mx/handle/123456789/4421|language=es}}</ref> and at Gala Teatro Hispano in a staged reading in Washington, D.C. An English readers-theatre version was produced by CITE and the Mexican Cultural Institute that toured the Washington area.

An epic play about a heroine of the [[French Resistance]] who was the daughter of a renowned Indian musician who first brought [[Sufism]] to the West, ''SOUNDWAVES: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan'', was presented first at The Brecht Forum, later by Bridge Theatre Group at the [[New York International Fringe Festival]] in 2013 and again by EnActe Arts Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/SoundWavesNoorInayatKhan/|title=Soundwaves: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref> Other productions include his 2016 staging of [[Dario Fo]]'s ''They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay?'' – revised before the [[Nobel Prize]]–winner's death, at Flashpoint Theatre in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://howlround.com/dc-s-ambassador-theater-takes-on-dario-fo-s-they-don-t-pay-we-won-t-pay|title=DC's Ambassador Theater Takes on Dario Fo's They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay!|work=HowlRound Theatre Commons|access-date=2018-06-12|language=en}}</ref>

=== Teaching career===
Martin taught from 1990 to 2001 in the Department of Performing Arts at the [[American University]]. In 2000, as a [[Fulbright scholar]] in [[Romania]], he taught [[American drama]] at the [[University of Bucharest]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://americanstudies.ro/?menu=1|title=About Us - American Studies Department at The University of Bucharest|website=americanstudies.ro|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref> and directed the graduating class at the [[University of Theatre and Film Arts]] in [[José Rivera (playwright)|Jose Rivera]]'s ''Marisol''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unatc.ro/prezentare/index.php|title=UNATC NOUTATI|website=unatc.ro|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref>

Later, he worked in Europe and the Middle East as a Fulbright Specialist in Theatre, directing and creating college arts curricula in [[Jerusalem]] and the [[West Bank]] in 2011, and in [[Bethlehem]] at [[Dar al Kalima University]] in 2014. The two theatre projects culminated in essays collected in ''Staging Athol Fugard in Palestine – And Other Essays''.

From 2002 to 2006, Martin taught theory and criticism and [[devised theatre]] at [[Catholic University of America]]. Since 2008, he has taught playwriting and dramatic literature as a senior lecturer for the Theatre Arts and Studies program at [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://krieger.jhu.edu/theatre-arts/about/|title=About {{!}} Theatre Arts & Studies|work=Theatre Arts & Studies|access-date=2018-06-12|language=en}}</ref>

==Works==
*''Keeper of the Protocols: The Works of Jens Bjørneboe in the Crosscurrents of Western Literature''. (New York & Bern: Peter Lang; 1996).
*''Conspiracies: Six Plays''. (Louisville: Aran Press & Press Open, 1997).
*''Foreigners: A Novel''. (Davis, CA: Hi Jinx Press, 1997).
*''Strindberg – Other Sides: Seven Plays''. (New York & Bern: Peter Lang Publishers, 1997).
*''Semmelweis'' by Jens Bjørneboe. Translation with introduction. (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Classics, 1998).
*''Parabola: Shorter Fictions''. (Paradise, CA: Asylum Arts, 2000).
*''Rumi's MATHNAVI: A Theatre Adaptation''. (Raleigh, NC: Asylum Arts, 2007).
*''The Rose and the Lotus: Sufism and Buddhism'' as Yousef Daoud. Essays published in ''Sufi Journal'' 1995–2006. (Indianapolis: Xlibris Spirituality, 2009).
*''Spirit Garden: Poems'' with art by Enrique Castenon. (Washington, D.C.: PressOpen, 2012).
*''Soundwaves: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan''. (PressOpen: Washington, D.C. 2016).
*''Staging Athol Fugard in Palestine: And other essays on theatre and writers in the Holy Land''. (Washington, D.C.: PressOpen, 2018.)

== Personal life==
In 1990, Martin met the actress Lisa Lias in a production of his play ''Anatole's Lover''. They later married, and worked on productions of international works for Open Theatre DC in collaboration with C.I.T.E., and later with TUTA Theatre and its director Zeljko Djukic (now relocated to Chicago.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tutatheatre.org/about-quartet|title=About Quartet|website=TUTA Theatre|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref> They have one son, Beckett Lias Martin.

In 1997, he and Lias spent two months in India investigating different performance forms, religious art, the revival of the [[Sanskrit Drama|Sanskrit drama]] at [[Benares Hindu University]], and studied Buddhist philosophy at the [[Institute of Buddhist Dialectics]] in [[Dharamshala|Dharamsala]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.instituteofbuddhistdialectics.org/|title=Institute of Buddhist Dialectics| publisher = [[Institute of Buddhist Dialectics]]|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref>

The couple divorced in 2004; Martin continues to live in Washington, D.C.

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