Kathleen A. Martin

Kathleen A. Martin is an American editor, writer and a theatre and voice actor. She is currently best know for her performance as Janice Shriek in an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek: An Afterword, and as the co-founder of Wit's End Publishing, under which she co-edited and published a collection of Charles Willeford's short fiction and poetry among other notable work.
Her professional acting career began when she moved from Brown University, to where she had received a full scholarship, to New York to study under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse as a classmate of Jeff Goldblum's. She also worked and workshopped with David Mamet at Goddard College, alongside .
She worked professionally as an actor in Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theatre through her membership of Larry Gordon's Early Music Ensemble (Village Harmony), in the Boston Shakespeare Company, and The South Bay Repertory Company. Her leading roles include Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives, Elvira in Blithe Spirit and she originated the role of Cassandra in the musical Cassandra.
She acted in numerous short films, including work for Academy Award-winner Michael Korolenko, but is best known for her work in the theatre and as a voice actor. Some of her notable voice acting roles include Robert Desiderio's radio adaptation of Sartre's No Exit and Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine for Boston's WCOZ. She also was a member of the Harvard University Choir, under the directorship and tutelage of John R. Ferris.
Behind the scenes, she managed the young people's program at the Los Angeles Lee Strasberg Institute and was the managing director of the Chicago Trinity Square Ensemble Theatre.
Her verse and other writings have been published in Light Quarterly and other magazines.
More recently she has been active as a small press publisher and editor with Wit's End Publishing and the crime fiction imprint Point Blank Press.

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