Magda Martinez is a Philadelphia based playwright and poet. A native of New York City's Lower East Side she is of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian heritage. She has written, performed and produced her original works nationally.
Magda has received a Fellowship in the Arts from the Independence Foundation, a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist as Catalyst and most recently was one of twelve women from a pool of over 200 to receive the Leeway Foundation's Transformation Award recognizing her work using writing as a tool for community transformation. |