Martin was born in Durham, spent his childhood in South Africa and went to school in Oxford. He studied English and Drama at Edinburgh University and Circus and Physical Theatre at Circomedia in Bristol.

His first professional job was Drama Worker for Caithness, where he met Louise. He has directed professional and community shows for companies including the Arches, Toonspeak, the Working Party, Dundee Rep, RSAMD, Borderline and Scottish Youth Theatre as well as continuing to work extensively in Europe. In the guise of Dr Rocket he is also a Clowndoctor.

Artistic Director. Martin has directed most of the community projects and all of the professional shows for the company.

His job entails coming up with ideas for shows, meeting folk about new projects, leading workshops, dealing with marketing and media, going to meetings, training folk in circus skills and generally trying to stay on top of things..