Multi-award-winning Director Terry Martin served 17 seasons as Producing Artistic Director of WaterTower Theatre where he oversaw more than 150 productions. In his role as WaterTower Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director, Terry managed both the administrative and artistic aspects of the Company’s nearly $1.8 million annual operating budget. Under his leadership WTT grew from a small local theatre company to one of the leading regional theatres in Texas.
Some of his more than 65 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. During his tenure 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.
In addition to his most recent performance in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey at Uptown Players Gay History Month Festival, he has appeared on stage at the Dallas Theater Center in Next Fall, and WTT in All My Sons and Our Town. In 2008, Terry won a Dallas Fort Worth Theatre Critics’ Forum Award as Best Actor for Blackbird. His other WTT acting credits include The Woman in Black, Dinner with Friends, The Guys, Bash: Latter-day Plays, and The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me… (1998 Rabin Award – Actor in a Play, 1998 Dallas Theater Critics Forum Award).
After growing up in south Alabama, Terry spent 12 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 trained professionally with Sanford Meisner, Fred Kareman, Wynn Handman, Sally Johnson, and Lehmann Byck. Terry presently serves as the Head of Fine Arts at Greenhill School and teaches on-going professional acting classes in the Sanford Meisner Technique.