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Terry Martin
Director

Terry is thrilled to be back making theatre at WaterTower, especially this show and this cast.

Terry served 17 seasons as Producing Artistic Director of WaterTower Theatre, overseeing over 150 productions. Under his leadership, WTT grew from a small local theatre company to one of the leading regional theatres in Texas.

Some of his 65-plus directing credits at WTT include One Man, Two Gu’vnors, Dogfight, The Grapes of Wrath, Our Town, Spring Awakening, The Diary of Anne Frank, As You Like It, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Man of La Mancha, The Crucible, Take Me Out, A Country Life (which he adapted from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and won the 2005 Rabin Award – Best New Play), Cabaret, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues, The Laramie Project, You Can't Take It With You, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2002 Rabin Award – Director of a Play), Sweeney Todd (2002 Rabin Award Nomination Director of a Musical) among others. While at WTT, Terry developed and produced multiple new plays and musicals, including Akin Babatunde and Alan Governor's Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues, Dave Johnson's Baptised to the Bone, and Donald Fowler's Creep.

After growing up in south Alabama, Terry spent 13 years in New York City working in theatre, television, and film. While there, he directed and acted at The Village Theatre Company, Carnegie Hall Studios, and Theatre at St. Marks as well as television appearances on ABC's One Life to Live and NBC's To Serve and Protect. He holds a BA from the University of Alabama and has trained professionally with Sanford Meisner, Fred Kareman, Wynn Handman, Sally Johnson, and Lehmann Byck. Terry presently serves as the Head of Arts at Greenhill School and teaches ongoing professional acting classes in the Meisner Technique at WaterTower Theatre.