Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman is an American playwright and screenwriter whose work has had a profound impact on contemporary theatre. Born in Philadelphia in 1938 and raised in Camden, New Jersey, he studied dramatic arts at Boston University before training at the Actors Studio in New York. Sherman achieved international recognition with Bent (1979), his groundbreaking play about the persecution of gay men under the Nazi regime, which became a Tony Award nominee and remains one of the most significant plays of the twentieth century.