Martyna Majok
Affiliated Writer
New York, NY
Biography

Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Cost of Living, which debuted this fall on Broadway and is currently nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages.

Other awards include The Obie Award for Playwriting, The Hull-Warriner Award, The Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin Hadley Danks Award for Exceptional Playwriting, Off Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award, The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, The Hermitage Greenfield Prize, as the first female recipient in drama, The Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office, The Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, The Lanford Wilson Prize, The Lilly Award's Stacey Mindich Prize, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play from The Helen Hayes Awards, Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, ANPF Women's Invitational Prize, David Calicchio Prize, Global Age Project Prize, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and Jersey public schools. She was a 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence, the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Martyna is currently writing a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, and developing TV and film for Plan B, Pastel, and MRC.

Majok is pronounced My Oak, like the tree. Or like Cinco de Mayo-k.

Agent Information

Olivier Sultan
Creative Artists Agency
olivier.sultan@caa.com
212.277.9000

 

Successes

Manhattan Theatre Club Announces New Slate of Commissions and New Development Lab. Commissioned playwrights include Martyna Majok. https://www.playbill.com/article/manhattan-theatre-club-announces-new-sl...

HBO has put in development a new drama series Queens, based on the play by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok, who will pen the adaptation and executive produce the show. Read more here.

“Sanctuary City,” a play by Martyna Majok that blends the personal and political in its depiction of a newly naturalized teenager who decides to marry her undocumented best friend so he can remain in the country, will be the New York Theater Workshop's penultimate production in their 2018-19 season.

Lincoln Center Theater has announced the first two productions of its 2018 Off-Broadway season, which will include new plays by Martyna Majok and Joshua Harmon.  Check out the article on Playbill's site here.