Meet Our Team

Heather Martin

Founder & Creative Producer

Heather is a playwright and dramaturg living in Belfast.

She has had plays produced across Australia, Ireland, England, and Switzerland. Her first play, The Book of David was produced in 2015 and went onto be shortlisted for Queensland Theatre's Young Playwright of the Year Award in 2016. In 2020, it was published by Australian Plays Transform. Her professional theatre debut came in 2022 for her play The Initiation of Tommy Wilson which performed to a sold-out season at BackDock Arts in Brisbane. She was a 2025/2026 ENGINE Programme participant with Tinderbox Theatre, and is Amadan Ensemble’s current Nurture recipient. On top of Belfast Playwrights, she is writing her newest work Oscar + Henri and working as Associate Dramaturg of Dark Forest Theatre and as dramaturg on The Playhouse Derry’s Operation Desperation.

Her new play, As We Drift, will open in the Lyric Belfast’s Naughton Studio in February 2027.