Jane Martin is the RUMORED pen-name of a playwright speculated to be retired Actors Theatre of Louisville

Actors Theatre of Louisville

Actors Theatre of Louisville is a performing arts theater located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1964 by Louisville native Ewel Cornett, local producer Richard Block and actor Ken Jenkins of Scrubs fame, and was designated the "State Theater of Kentucky" in 1974. It is run as a...

 artistic director Jon Jory

Jon Jory

Jon Jory is a theatrical director instrumental in the development of the Actors Theatre of Louisville; he is also widely rumored to be the writer behind the pseudonym Jane Martin....

. Jon Jory, Martin's spokesperson, denies being Jane Martin but has directed the premieres of Martin's shows.

Martin has traditionally been billed as a Kentucky playwright. While speculation about her identity centers around Jory, other theories have cited former Actors Theatre of Louisville Executive Director Alexander Speer, former Actors Theatre Literary Manager Michael Bigelow Dixon, and former intern Kyle John Schmidt.

Jane Martin's credits include Anton in Show Business, Back Story, Coup, Cementville

Cementville

Cementville is a 1991 dark comedy play written by Jane Martin, a Pulitzer-nominated author and premiered at the 1991 Humana Festival of New American Plays...

, Criminal Hearts, Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage

Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage

Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage is a sadistic satirical play by Jane Martin.Big 8, a feisty rodeo competitor, is a bitter critter, facing foreclosure on the Wyoming ranch where she rehabilitates injured rodeo cowboys...

, Vital Signs, and Talking With...

Talking With...

Talking With... is an American play by Jane Martin, published by Samuel French Incorporated. The play is composed of eleven ten-minute monologues, each featuring a different woman who talks about her life...

Martin's Keely and Du won the 1994 American Theater Critics Association New Play Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

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Publications

• With Michael Bigelow Dixon: Jane Martin Collected Plays. Volume II, 1996-2001. Contemporary playwrights series. [Lyme, NH]: Smith and Kraus, 2001. ISBN 9781575252728.