Jonathan Martin is a New Zealand actor who has worked extensively throughout New Zealand and Australia.
His theatrical credits encompass a wide range of roles in both classic and contemporary plays. Some favourites include: The Seagull, Romeo and Juliet, The Sunshine Boys, In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), The History Boys, Arsenic and Old Lace, North By Northwest, Twelfth Night, Don’t mention Casablanca, Once on Chunick Bair and Shepherd.
His repertoire includes comedic performances in shows like Something Rotten! and One Man Two Guvnors and more dramatic roles in productions such as Henry V and The Merchant of Venice. The latter he performed on the Transtasman Pop Up Globe stage as well as A MidSummer Nights Dream, As You Like It and, most notably Twelfth Night (as Malvolio.)
His skills and experience also extend to musical theatre where he’s performed in productions such as The Producers, Le Cage Aux Folles, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Into The Woods, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, Jersey Boys, Madagascar The Musical, Avenue Q, A Little Night Music, Little Shop Of Horrors and most recently the New Zealand Premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom.
Jonathan saw the original production of The Play That Goes Wrong at the Old Red Lion Theatre Pub in east London and remembers it being the funniest couple of hours he’d had in a theatre in a long time, so it’s fair to say it’s pretty awesome he is now performing in it himself ten years on. He hopes that everything goes right… by which he means wrong!
He is a proud Member of Actors Equity New Zealand and MEAA.
The Play That Goes Wrong | Australia & New Zealand
