Joe Martin (pen name Yousef Daoud; born 1953 Norwalk, Connecticut) is a playwright, author, academic and theater director.
Martin has written two volumes of fiction, theatrical works, and essays on theater, arts in the Middle East, and religion.
[2] In Vancouver, he worked five years developing Open Theatre Projects, and co-directing classic plays, with Shakespearean actor Dermott Hennelly (Noel Burton) before leaving for Scandinavia.
This led to a collaboration between Tovar and Martin on a work in both English and Spanish, El Trato, concerning an ill-fated attempt at a trade treaty between the US and Mexico in the mid-19th century eventually presented in Spanish by La Compañía Nacional de Teatro in Mexico City[10] and at Gala Teatro Hispano in a staged reading in Washington DC.
We Won't Pay?--revised before the Nobel prize winner's death, at Flashpoint Theatre in Washington DC.
[14] Later, he worked in Europe and the Middle East as a Fulbright Specialist in Theatre, directing and creating college arts curricula in Jerusalem and the West Bank in 2011, and in Bethlehem at Dar al Kalima University in 2014.
Since 2008, he has taught playwriting and dramatic literature as a senior lecturer for the Theatre Arts and Studies program at Johns Hopkins University.