Julio Martinez
Julio Martinez is a one-act play specialist, produced at Ruskin Group Theatre, Rogue Machine, Drama West. His radio dramas have been broadcast throughout the U.S over Pacifica Radio. Martinez is a published storyteller whose work can be read in The Story Salon Big Book of Stories, A Place Called the Bla Bla Café and Verge of L.A., and heard on the Story Salon CD, The Mario Sessions. He performs regularly at venues throughout the Los Angeles area. As an entertainment journalist, Julio hosts the weekly KPFK Radio’s Arts in Review, celebrating the best in live theater and cabaret in the Great Los Angeles area. Formerly a theater critic for Daily Variety (18 years), Julio pens the weekly LA Stage INSIDER Column for LA Stage Times, as well as the weekly TeleVision featurettes for Latin Heat Magazine. He is a recurring features contibutor for the Written By – magazine of the Writers Guild of America (WGA). His articles have appeared in Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Backstage West, Drama-Logue and Westways Magazine, among others. In his earlier years, Julio worked as a guitar accompanist/music director for such singers as Al Jarreau, Helen Reddy, Sarah Vaughn and Charo.
