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Clem Martini

Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays and nine books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, including Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, winner of the Calgary Book Award, and his most recent anthology of plays, Martini with a Twist. He has served on the boards of numerous writing organizations including the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs. His texts on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright and The Greek Playwright, are used in universities and colleges across the country. He is currently a professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.

Books by Clem Martini

Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI

edited by Lorene Shyba & James R. Parker
by (author) Verna Vogel, Rich Théroux, Uchechukwu Umezurike, Eveline Kolijn, Rosemary Griebel, Clem Martini, Kenna Burima, Julian Hobson & Dagmar Jamieson
foreword by Steve DiPaola

Cantata & The Extinction Therapist

Two Plays by Clem Martini

by (author) Clem Martini
foreword by Naheed K. Nenshi & Christine Brubaker
photographs by Cliff Kirchhoff

The Blunt Playwright

An Introduction to Playwriting

by (author) Clem Martini

The Comedian

by (author) Clem Martini

The Unravelling

How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one

by (author) Clem Martini
illustrated by Olivier Martini

The Ancient Comedians

and the Influence They Had on Contemporary Theatre

by (author) Clem Martini

One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years

A History of Wood's Homes as Told by the People Who Lived and Worked There

edited by Clem Martini

Martini with a Twist

Five Plays by Clem Martini

by (author) Clem Martini

Too Late

by (author) Clem Martini

Bitter Medicine

A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness

by (author) Clem Martini
illustrated by Olivier Martini

Things That Go Bump

Volume 2, Plays for Young Audiences

edited by Kit Brennan
by (author) Elyne Quan, Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull, Mark Haroun, Clem Martini, Emil Sher, Chris Craddock & Jan Derbyshire

The Greek Playwright

What the First Dramatists Have To Say To Contemporary Playwrights

by (author) Clem Martini

Four by Four by Four

edited by Clem Martini

Judgment, The

by (author) Clem Martini

Plague, The

by (author) Clem Martini

Mob, The

by (author) Clem Martini

Something Like a Drug

An Unauthorized Oral History of Theatresports

by (author) Kathleen Foreman & Clem Martini

Three Martini Lunch

by (author) Clem Martini

The Field/Mouse Collection

by (author) Clem Martini
introduction by JoAnne James

Illegal Entry

by (author) Clem Martini