BIO:

     Rose Martula was recently selected as “1 0f 50 playwrights to watch” in the July/August issue of the Dramatists Guild Magazine. She was also nominated for the LARK Pony-fellowship. The King’s Head Theatre in London has optioned her newest play, Brooklyn. Salsa Saved The Girls (which the Royal Court calls, “darkly comic with sparky dialogue and likeable characterizations”) opens October 19^th at the Old Red Lion, in co-production with 3 Bird Theatre, Martula’s London-based theatre company.

     Her plays have been positively received by the Labyrinth Theatre Company, the Mark Taper Forum, the Royal Court, the Chesterfield Film Project, the Geffen Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla Playhouse, the Magic Theatre, the Atlantic Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Goodman, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, & the Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre. Her one act play, Drink Up, Baby, was selected as a semi-finalist at PlayLabs at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and two of her full-lengths were consecutively selected as winners of the Skirball Mckennis award.

     Martula was first produced off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater in New York during the Young Playwrights Festival (as 1 of 9 finalists out of 1400 submissions in the nationwide, playwriting contest) with her full-length play Packed. Since then she’s had productions & staged readings at the Soho Theater in London, the Powerhouse Theater at NY Stage&Film, Soho Rep, the Francis Ford Copolla One-Act Play Festival, the New Play Festival at the Freud Playhouse at UCLA, The Eclectic Company Theatre in N. Hollywood, & is a playwright-in-residence at the LA Theatre Ensemble at the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica. She received a BFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA in playwriting at UCLA. She is completing her first novel, Early 8o’s Child.

QUOTES:

 “The Chekhov of her generation.” -- Leon Katz  (Emeritus Professor of Drama from the Yale School of Drama)

 “Martula's Salsa Saved The Girls is incisive and original." The LA Times

“Her dialogue is lively, spirited, and quite fresh.” -- La Jolla Playhouse

“Drink up, Baby is a fascinatingly bold, even fearless piece.” –- Playwrights Horizon

“A Heavenly Blast is entertaining and vigorously written.” – The Royal Court