I am a Dominican-born director, designer, producer and translator. In 2020, I founded Punto Zeta Productions, a theater company that seeks to challenge the established theatre norms in the Dominican Republic. As its artistic director, I have directed/designed the Spanish-language productions of Metamorphoses, The Masque of the Red Death, Art, Noises Off, and Morir Soñando. Additionally, I also translated and directed the first Dominican production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Studying Production Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, I was the assistant director of The Lucas Show: Happy Days Are Here Again and the Foley sound effects designer for Men on Boats. More recently, I directed Lonely Planet at Carnegie Mellon University, I was the assistant director for the Pittsburgh Public’s production of Dial M for Murder, I was the assistant director and trasnlator for Brian Quijada's Somewhere Over the Border at City Theatre, Pittsburgh.
I am currently a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (Class of 2025).
I direct, design, and dream about work that make the impossibles feel relative. I am interested in finding the intersection where the real, the historic, and the magical meet for café con leche. Nothing excites me more than getting my hands dirty as I redefine architecture, redirect time, and reassemble the pieces of broken expectations. There is always something invisible, and I call dibs. The work I create is ephemeral, but the effect it has in others is eternal. I believe that the mundane and the sublime are not mutually exclusive. I stand between Hispanicness and everything else, and I constantly question what that means to me as an artist.
“Martínez not only challenges the invisible laws of theatre, but also offers a sample of what the creative spirit is capable of.”