For the actor also credited as Martin T. Sherman, see Martin Sherman (actor)Martin Gerald Sherman (born December 22, 1938) is an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his 20 stage plays which have been produced in over 55 countries. He rose to fame in 1979 with the production of his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Bent, which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. Bent was a Tony nominee for Best Play in 1980 and won the Dramatists Guild's Hull-Warriner Award. It has been produced in 35 countries and was adapted first by Sherman for a major motion picture in 1997 and later by independent sources as a ballet in Brazil. Sherman is an openly gay Jew, and many of his works dramatize "outsiders," dealing with the discrimination and marginalisation of minorities whether "gay, female, foreign, disabled, different in religion, class or color." He has lived and worked in London since 1980.
"Well, I'm not sure that Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Capote (2005) really qualify as gay films. "Brokeback Mountain" is about two straight men who happen to have a gay affair, and "Capote" is about an author, who happens to be gay, going to any lengths to get his story".
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1980 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Bent."
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He adapted Luigi Pirandello's "Absolutely (perhaps) into a new version and was performed at the Wyndham Theatre and nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Revival of 2003.
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His drama, "Rose", performed by the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe Stage, was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 (1999 season) for Best New Play.
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