Isaac Martyn

Īhaka Huia James Martyn(Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa; Scotland, England, Wales) is a playwright, actor, and the Script Coordinator at He Rōpū Tautoko Tito Whakaari o Aotearoa, Playmarket. I tipu ake ia ki Tāmaki-makau-rau, e noho ana ia ki Pōneke ināianei. He studied Music and Theatre at Otago University and a Masters in Scriptwriting at the IIML at Te Herenga Waka. His most recent artistic credits are playing Billy in Ella Yiannoutsos’ No No No in 2024, a development season of his play Slowing the Sun at the 2023 Kia Mau Festival, and three seasons of his auto-biographical solo piece, He Māori? in 2022 and 2023. Isaac’s been making stuff and breaking legs in theatres around the motu since he was a kid, and is always searching for what tugs at the puku.

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