Martin Jago (born 4 August 1972) is a British theatre director^[1][2][3][4] and author.^[5][6] His first book, To Play or Not to Play: 50 Games for Acting Shakespeare,^[7][8] with a foreword by British actor Alfred Molina, was published in the U.S. in 2012 by Smith & Kraus. His second book, ESL Shakespeare: 101 Everyday Phrases,^[9][10] also published by Smith & Kraus, was released in 2013.

In 2018, Jago published two more theatre books with Smith & Kraus, From Courts to Dungeons,^[11][12] and The Actor's Complete Shakespeare Sonnet Bible.^[13][14]

As a poet, his work has been published in literary magazines and journals such as Agenda, ^[15] LIT Magazine, ^[16] The Moth, ^[17] and Acumen. ^[18]

Educated at The University of Oxford, Jago first trained as an actor^[19] at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before a change of career in 2004 to focus on directing and writing for theatre and in 2014 he founded the Los Angeles-based theatre company, Raze the Space, which produces an annual festival of ten-minute plays and theatre awards at The Samuel French Bookstore in Hollywood.

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• Official website