| Jason D. Martin Writing Biography |
| Freelance Writer: Jason is a writer with a varied field of interests. He is a successful outdoor adventure writer, a playwright, a screenwriter, and a film critic. Jason's work has been seen in the pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the San Antonio Current, the Northwest Mountaineering Journal, Climbing Magazine, and in many other local and national publications. Jason splits his time between Seattle and Las Vegas. Outdoor Writer: Jason is a freelance writer and professional mountain guide. Much of his adventure writing revolves around the work that he does in the mountains. Jason has professionally guided in the Cascades, the Sierra, Red Rock Canyon, Joshua Tree, in the Coast Mountains of Canada, the Alaska Range and in the Andes of Boliva and Ecuador. He co-authored the guidebook, "Washington Ice: A Climbing Guide" and his writing has appeared in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the San Antonio Current, the Northwest Mountaineering Journal, Climbing Magazine and in numerous other publications. Jason splits his time between Seattle and Las Vegas. Playwright: A former high school drama teacher, Jason lives and breathes to write for and about theatre and film. Over the years, seven of his plays have been published in different anthologies. Numerous productions of these plays and others have been performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has received three Meritorius Achievement Awards from the American College Theatre Festival for excellence in playwrighting; and his play "Dying Light" was selected as the Best New Play at the Northwest Drama Conference in 1995. More recently, Jason's Brechtian exploration of Native American rights and modern environmentalism entitled, "Endangered Species," was selected as a finalist in the Earth Matters on Stage conference in Humboldt, California. As a screenwriter, Jason adapted John Weld's book "Fly Away Home" into a screenplay for Laguana Films in California. In additon to writing for theatre and film, Jason is a critic who has seen his work published in newspapers throughout North America. Jason holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. |