Martin is an award-winning theatre and opera director. His credits include Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci for Shanghai Opera House, Dead Man Walking for Welsh National Opera, War and Peace at English National Opera/BBC Proms, and Paul Bunyan for Welsh National Opera, which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and was nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award. Other credits include Gary Owen’s new adaptation of Peter Pan (Storyhouse, Chester), The Tailor-Made Man (Arts Theatre, West End), The Silent Twins (Almeida), and The Owl and the Pussycat (Royal Opera House/London 2012 Cultural Olympiad).

He has directed many productions with Early Opera Company including Acis and Galatea, The Coronation of Poppea, Rodelinda, and Giasone. Additional credits include Don Giovanni (Longborough Festival Opera), Dido and Aeneas and Britten’s Women (Bath International Festival), Semele (Mid Wales Opera), The Elixir of Love and Norma (Grange Park Opera), and The Iris Murder for Hebrides Ensemble at the Traverse and Orkney Festival.

Martin has also directed for Royal Shakespeare Company, Bristol Old Vic and Chichester Festival Theatre.

He was Associate Director of Pentabus Theatre and The Yard Theatre, where he directed liveartshow’s Manga Sister (winner of the Peter Brook Empty Space Innovation Award) and Rhinegold. Also for liveartshow and Wales Millenium Centre, he directed The Future For Beginners (MTN Award).

As International Chair of Directing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Martin was part of the team launching the new Opera School in partnership with WNO and wrote the UK’s first MA course in Opera Directing. His book, The Opera Singer’s Acting Toolkit, is published by Bloomsbury.

Martin is currently Artistic Director of Streetwise Opera, working in London, Nottingham and Manchester to empower people with experience of homelessness through opera. Streetwise’s latest production, Re:Discover, won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and was nominated for an International Opera Award.