Yoni Marten

Yoni Marten
Artistic Director

Yoni Marten, working under his actual name, Jonathan, as well as his nickname, Yoni (rhymes with macaroni), has an extensive background as actor, writer, director and teacher. As a director, Yoni has more than 50 NY and regional productions to his credit. Among his favorites are Luv, Standing On My Knees, Company, Social Security, Tomfoolery, Blood Ties, The Birds Do It (which he also wrote), the NY premiere of playwright Bo Wilson's Manly Men: An Evening Chock Full of Lies and Testosterone, the East Coast premiere of Pamela Gray's Supernormal Clutches, the world premiere of Player's Joy, which he also restaged and co-directed for the film version, and, most recently, the World Premiere of his wife Tanya's kinky romantic comedy, Euphoric Tendencies.

Yoni has taught acting, lectured and offered seminars for companies and universities around the country. Prior to returning to ART, he taught Advanced Scene Study and his popular Audition Bootcamp class at New York City's Creative Acting Company. His most recent stage appearance was in the NY and World Premiere production of Euphoric Tendencies (which he also directed). Other roles played on New York and regional stages include Lenny Bruce in Julian Barry's Lenny, an award-winning performance as Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, Arnold Epstein in Biloxi Blues, Mozart in Amadeus, Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Drew in Eastern Standard, Vito in P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, and the lead role of Fred in the Off-Broadway premiere of The Christmas Carol Conspiracy: Scrooge's Revenge. Musical appearances include the national tours of Grease and Godspell, as well as regional appearances in Personals, and as Fagin in Oliver.

Television viewers have seen Yoni in a recurring role of the soap opera The Edge of Night, and the ABC sitcom, Spin City, opposite Michael J. Fox. He also had the starring role of Nick in the television pilot, In The Balance, and was seen in the Family Channel movie, Mother's Day, with Malcolm Jamal Warner, Denise Nicholas and Jose Ferrer (Mother's Day was also notable in that Yoni was — for the first time — joined on-screen by his brothers Seth and Ethan, who also had roles in the film, as well as their older brother Richard, (who made a cameo appearance). Some of Yoni's film appearances include the feature Eddie, opposite Whoopi Goldberg (also featuring his brother, Ethan), Woody Allen's Celebrity with Kenneth Branaugh and Winona Ryder, and Stepmom, with Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts.

Yoni's most recent film appearances include the indie films, Remedy, Eyes of the Roshi, opposite Academy Award nominee, Eric Roberts, as well as the documentary, White Buffalo: An American Prophecy. He is also the creator and co-author (with his friend, Joe Doyle and wife, Tanya) of The Reel Life, a play and screenplay satirizing the film industry, now in development with ART.
Yoni studied acting with Lee and John Strasberg at the Lee Stasberg Theatre Institute, with Eric Loeb at the Eric Loeb Studio, The American Theatre of Actors, The Actor's Institute, The School For Film & Television, and at Boston's Emerson College. Yoni is also the proud husband of ART Managing Director Tanya Marten.

Contact: yoni@actors-rep.org