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Martin Sherman, from the Boardwalk to Bent


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Playwright Martin Sherman was born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey but has lived in London for more than forty years.

His memoir On the Boardwalk is about to be released, covering the first part of his life up to his first major success as a writer with the play Bent at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1979, which starred Ian McKellen, who has written a foreword to the book.

BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Martin about his life and work including his mother’s Huntington’s Disease which he feared inheriting, his father’s narcissistic personality disorder, his time at Boston University and Lee Strasberg’s Actors’ Studio, his failed productions before his introduction to Gay Sweatshop in London and the O’Neill in Connecticut, being represented by the great Peggy Ramsey and his success with Bent, where the book ends.

On the Boardwalk will be released by the publisher Inkandescent on 25 September 2025.

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