Cheryl Martin: Associate Artist

About Cheryl Martin

Cheryl became Artistic Director of Red Ladder Theatre Company in January 2024. Alongside her writing and directing, Cheryl has supported writers and practitioners at Contact Theatre, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and Oldham Coliseum, and worked with Community Arts Northwest on a series of community plays. In 2015 she co-founded LGBTQ+ Global-Majority performance arts company Black Gold Arts. In addition to being an Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre assessor and judge, Cheryl was also Co-Artistic Director of Manchester’s grassroots Global-Majority-led publisher and writer development company Commonword and is Co-Director of Manchester Pride’s Candlelight Vigil.

The Associate Artist relationship supported the making of three solo theatres shows:

Alaska 2015
Who Wants To Liver Forever? 2020
One Woman was awarded a Wellcome Collection Unlimited Commission in association with Spirit 2012 and the British Council, the show’s premiere was at the Southbank Centre, London in 2022 and touring internationally to São Paulo, Brazil and Melbourne Australia.

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