Lexington, Kentucky
Martyna Majok's play Cost of Living began previews off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club on May 16, 2017. Highly recommended: this short video about the play and its cast, and this New York Times interview from 2016.
Martyna Majok (pronounced “my OAK”) was born in Bytom, Poland, and aged in Jersey and Chicago. Martyna is currently part of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright Program at The Juilliard School. She has taught playwriting at Williams College, Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, Primary Stages ESPA, New Jersey Rep, and as an assistant to Paula Vogel at Yale. Alumna of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood and Women’s Project Lab. Martyna is a Core Writer at Playwrights Center and a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Writers Guild of America East, and New York Theatre Workshop’s Usual Suspects. Martyna was a 2012–13 NNPN playwright-in-residence and the 2015–16 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center. B.A., University of Chicago; M.F.A., Yale School of Drama.
Martyna’s plays have been performed and developed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/Women’s Project Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, LAByrinth Theatre Company, The John F. Kennedy Center, Dorset Theatre Festival, Marin Theatre Company, and New York Stage & Film, among others.
Awards include The Dramatists Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award, Helen Hayes Award’s Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical, the inaugural Women’s Invitational Prize at Ashland New Play Festival, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award, Marin Theatre’s David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project Prize, National New Play Network’s Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, Jane Chambers Student Feminist Playwriting Prize, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream.
Commissions from Lincoln Center, The Bush Theatre in London, The Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Marin Theatre Company, “The New Yorker” Web site, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Foundry Theatre.
Publications by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, TCG, and Smith & Kraus. Residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Fuller Road, Marble House Project, and Ragdale.