Martin Murray is a writer based in New York City. MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.
He is currently a Cohort Member of the Playwright Entrepreneur Program at PlayPenn 2025/26. He was a Playwriting Fellow at Shanghai Theatre Academy & a Teaching Artist with The Twilight Zone Project in association with the Rod Serling Foundation and Binghamton University.
His screenplay, Miranda, won the 2022 Columbia Blue List Screenwriting Award. Martin wrote the screenplay 'The Power of Positive Murder!' for Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Entertainment. He co-produced 'I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Film Director in Brooklyn' for Tokyo-based cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana; its world premiere occurred in July 2025 at the Fantasia Film Festival.
His fiction appears in Deathcap & Hemlock, Mystery...
Martin Murray is a writer based in New York City. MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.
He is currently a Cohort Member of the Playwright Entrepreneur Program at PlayPenn 2025/26. He was a Playwriting Fellow at Shanghai Theatre Academy & a Teaching Artist with The Twilight Zone Project in association with the Rod Serling Foundation and Binghamton University.
His screenplay, Miranda, won the 2022 Columbia Blue List Screenwriting Award. Martin wrote the screenplay 'The Power of Positive Murder!' for Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Entertainment. He co-produced 'I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Film Director in Brooklyn' for Tokyo-based cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana; its world premiere occurred in July 2025 at the Fantasia Film Festival.
His fiction appears in Deathcap & Hemlock, Mystery Tribune, Bristol Noir, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bog Bodies Press, and Ugly Radio. He writes film reviews for The Meat Puppet Magazine in Austin, Texas.
In May 2025, he signed a book deal for his debut novel, a horror story set in 1992, to be published in 2027.
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