Ken-Matt Martin (Director)

Ken-Matt Martin (Director) has worked at theaters across the country including Rites and Reason Theatre, Pyramid Theatre Company, Brown/Trinity Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, The Playwrights Center, Baltimore Center Stage, and others. Ken-Matt is a co-founder of Pyramid Theatre Company where he served as executive director until 2018. Pyramid is the first and only theatre in the state of Iowa to produce plays by August Wilson including Ken-Matt’s productions of Fences and The Piano Lesson. Ken-Matt’s producing and directing credits in Des Moines have received numerous Cloris Leachman Excellence in Theatre Award nominations including two awards for Best Play and a Special Recognition Award in 2016.

Ken-Matt previously served as producing director at Williamstown Theatre Festival where he negotiated the Broadway transfers of The Sound Inside and Grand Horizons. He has also served as associate producer at the Goodman Theatre where he co-created the Future Labs program. He is the former artistic director of Victory Gardens Theatre and was recently appointed the interim artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage. He received two degrees from Drake University and his M.F.A. in directing from Brown/Trinity Rep.