Martin Casella - Playwright, Screenwriter, Actor and Face-Melter.


Martin Casella - Playwright, Screenwriter, Actor and Face-Melter.


On todays podcast we have Martin Casella - #Playwright, #Screenwriter, #Actor and Face-Melter.

He alone took part in one of the most iconic scenes in horror film history: pulling his face off in the bathroom in the original Poltergeist.

Find Martin on twitter: https://twitter.com/mcasellawriter

About Martin Casella:

After graduating from California Institute of the Arts, I spent three years as an assistant to director Steven Spielberg, on the films 1941; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS THE THIRD KIND: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT; USED CARS (as assistant to Bob Zemeckis) and the Academy-award winning classic, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. I then spent the next few years pursuing an acting career, appearing in numerous plays, TV movies and features films, including a leading role in Tobe Hooper and Mr. Spielberg's POLTERGEIST, before I started writing for the theatre, television and feature films.

In the theatrical world, my plays have been seen at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Odyssey, Coast Playhouse, Coronet, Cast and Crossroads Theatres (Los Angeles); the Acorn Theater, the Soho Playhouse, TBG Theatre, Ernie Martin, Linhart and Access Theatres (New York); Village Theatre and Group Theatre (Seattle); Mosiac Theatre (Fort Lauderdale); Bailiwick, Theatre Building (Chicago); Attic Rep (San Antonio); Short North Stage (Columbus), Stage One (Wichita); Paper Mill (New Jersey); Theatreworks and Goodspeed (Connecticut); Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia); Ford's Theatre (Washington); the Queen City Theater (Charlotte, N.C.); the Bunkamura Theatre (Tokyo); and in London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

My most well-known play, THE IRISH CURSE, opened Off-Broadway in March, 2010 to rave reviews. It premiered at the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival, where it won the overall excellence award for Outstanding Playwriting. It was also produced at the 2006 Edinburgh Theatre Festival and the Dublin Gay International Theatre Festival in May, 2007, where it was one of the five finalists for the Oscar Wilde Best New Writing for the Theatre Award. Since its critically acclaimed off-Broadway run, THE IRISH CURSE has played to sold-out houses in London, along with Portland, Columbus, Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, Charlotte and all across America. It opened in the 2012 in Los Angeles at the Odyssey Theater, where it had a three-month sold-out run, and was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding LA Theatre Production.

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