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Martin Sherman

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 66703

IMDb ID: nm0792526

Known for: Writing

Born: December 22, 1938

Age: 87

Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1985 - 2021

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.57

Wikidata: Q650024

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Biography

Martin Gerald Sherman (born December 22, 1938) is an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his 20 stage plays which have been produced in over 60 countries. He rose to fame in 1979 with the production of his play Bent, which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. Bent was a Tony nominee for Best Play in 1980 and won the Dramatists Guild's Hull-Warriner Award. It was adapted by Sherman for a major motion picture in 1997 and later by independent sources as a ballet in Brazil. Sherman is an openly gay Jew, and many of his works dramatize "outsiders," dealing with the discrimination and marginalization of minorities whether "gay, female, foreign, disabled, different in religion, class or color." He has lived and worked in London since 1980. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Sherman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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