Jason D. Martin

Jason D. Martin is a writer with a varied field of interests. He is a successful outdoor adventure writer, a playwright, a screenwriter, film critic and mountain guide. Jason's work has been seen in the pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the San Antonio Current, the Northwest Mountaineering Journal, Climbing Magazine, the Mount Baker Experience and in many other local and national publications. He is currently the primary writer and editor for the American Alpine Institute blog (blog.alpineinstitute.com). Jason's outdoor adventure writing is inspired by his work as a professional mountain guide. Jason has professionally guided in the Cascades, the Sierra, Red Rock Canyon, Joshua Tree National Park, in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, in the Alaska Range and in the Andes of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. He co-authored "Washington Ice: A Climbing Guide" and "Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual," and authored, "Fun Climbs Red Rocks: Topropes and Moderates." As a playwright and a former high school drama teacher, Jason has a deep love for theatre and film. Several of his plays have been both published in anthologies and have been produced throughout the United States and Europe. He has received three Meritorious Achievement Awards from the American College Theatre Festival for excellence in playwriting; and his play "Dying Light" was selected as the Best New Play at the Northwest Drama Conference in 1995. Additionally, Jason's Brechtian exploration of Native American rights and modern environmentalism entitled, "Endangered Species," was selected as a finalist in the Earth Matters on Stage conference in Humboldt, California. Jason holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. To learn more about Jason's playwriting, screenwriting and film criticism, please log onto: www.dramaticwriter.com