About Martha

She was co-writer, dramaturg, and assistant director for Full Circle’s 2015 premiere production Theater: A Sacred Passage.  In fall 2019 her play ​Dipped in Love​ was co-produced by Full Circle and Theater KinderSpace in Tokyo, with a Japanese translation by Momoko Tanno.    

She began her Twin Cities career in the early 1980s as co-founder/co-artistic director of 21st Street Players, an experimental, innovative theater company, where she collaborated on new works by renowned poet Robert Bly and acclaimed Japanese Noh master Akira Matsui.  

She holds a Ph.D. in theater from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specialized in ancient Greek, traditional Japanese, and experimental European theater. She was a director, teaching artist, and professor at Augsburg University from 1988 to 2014.