TERRY
MARTIN

Terry Martin served 17 seasons as Producing Artistic Director of the award-winning WaterTower Theatre in Addison, Texas, where he directed or oversaw more than 150 productions. Under his leadership, WTT grew from a small local theatre company to one of the leading regional theatres in Texas.  

 

Before moving to Dallas from NYC, in 1992, he worked in theatre, television, and film both as an actor and director. He directed and acted at The Village Theatre Company, Carnegie Hall Studios, and Theatre at St. Marks, as well as television appearances on ABC's One Life to Live and NBC's To Serve and Protect and in the feature film Tin Men.

 

He trained professionally with Sanford Meisner, Fred Kareman, Wynn Handman, Bill Esper, Sally Johnson, and Lehmann Byck. Prior to his move to Dallas, Terry started his own studio in 1990, and he has continued to teach ongoing professional acting classes and workshops in the Sanford Meisner Technique. He holds a BA from the University of Alabama.

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Terry has brought his grounded, Meisner-based approach to a range of screen roles in both film and television. Most recently, he appeared as Judge Burgess in the indie drama Wayward Kin (2025), produced by Anytown Productions. His film credits also include the satirical thriller Karma Police (2008).  On television, Terry appeared in the crime series To Serve and Protect (1999) and made an early-career appearance on the long-running daytime drama One Life to Live (1989),

 

His most recent stage appearances were as Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof for The Classical Theatre Project (2022) and in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey at Uptown Players (2018). In addition, he appeared on stage at the Dallas Theater Center in Next Fall (2012) and WTT in All My Sons (2015) and Our Town (2010).  In 2008, Terry won a Dallas Fort Worth Theatre Critics' Forum Award as Best Actor for the play Blackbird.  His other WTT acting credits include The Woman in Black, Dinner with Friends, The Guys, Bash: Latter-day Plays, and The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me… (1998 Leon Rabin Award – Actor in a Play, 1998 Dallas Theater Critics Forum Award).