MARTIN DOCKERY is a frequent performer in New York’s storytelling scene, appearing on the stages of The Moth, Speakeasy, The Liar Show, and many others. He’s developed three monologues, two with director Jean-Michele Gregory. Last year Wanderlust was performed in San Francisco, Westchester County, and in New York City at both Ars Nova and The Barrow Group Studio Theatre, where it enjoyed a sold-out run. He performed a new monologue, The Bike Trip, at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn, at the end of January, 2009, and debuted another new show, The Surprise, at the end of February as part of the NY Frigid Festival. The show won an Audience Choice award, and was also picked to participate in the SoloNOVA Festival in NYC at the beginning of May. From this festival, he was selected as terraNOVA’s “Breakthrough Performer of the Year” and performed a 3-night run of both Wanderlust and The Surprise in the same evening in June. He traveled with Wanderlust in May to the Orlando Fringe Festival, where he had three sold-out shows and won “Best in Venue,” as well as tying for the much-coveted “Fringe Crush” award. He’ll be performing in June at the London (Ontario) Festival, and in July in the Toronto Fringe Festival, and the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. He’ll also be taking The Surprise to the San Francisco Fringe in September. This past summer he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with The Liar Show, which The Scotsman gave 4 stars. His stories have made him a seven-time finalist in The Moth’s bi-annual Grandslam Storytelling Championship. Also, he was a co-creator of the play C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, which ran on Broadway as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His play Oh, That Wily Snake! is part of a McGraw-Hill anthology textbook on literature. The New York Times has called his writing “fantastic,” Backstage West wrote that it was “deliciously enjoyable,” and L.A. Weekly has deemed it “compelling . . . entertaining . . . divinely inspired.” He received his B.A. in English from Kenyon College and his M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University.