Writing
Dom Martello (they/them/she) is a transfemme playwright and performer based in NYC. Their work has been developed in collaboration with The Road Theater’s Summer Playwright’s Festival & Under Construction Cohort 5, The Elif Collective, The Strides Collective, Theater Write Now, and The Workshop Theater. They are a 2025 Celebration Theater’s Trans Lineage: Rites of Passage Commission Recipient and a 2024 O’Neill NPC Semi-Finalist. Dom is the co-founder of Ten Toes Theater Collective in partnership at HERE Arts Center. They are a Truman Capote Fellow, a Syracuse University BFA Acting Grad, and a Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting ‘27 Candidate. Upcoming: FIWB, Short (Lead, Director: Sunny Laprade, produced by CK Productions), and substantiation (premier production in Dec, Los Angeles).
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Selected Titles
RED TIDE — 75 min, 2 actors. 2024 NPC semi-finalist, 2025 The Road Theater's SPF.
Her cat went missing and she's being haunted by a ghost. He just got out of a long-term relationship and can't hold down a job. They're strangers stuck in a house, waiting out a hurricane on Florida's Gulf Coast. All they have are board games, old CDs, a few cartons of milk, and hope that the house's foundation is strong enough to withstand the storm. This supernatural love story chronicles grief, transness, and the shifting current of American politics.
ENSNARED — 90 min, 2 actors, 1 drummer
PAUL McGILL Attached to Direct
Gem, a 20-something drummer on the precipice of stardom, returns to their rural hometown for one final gig at their local dive bar before moving out west. After the show turns sour, they escape into a back room where they discover Tim, a 40-something middle school science teacher, reading a novel all alone. The odd pairing connects as they lick each other's wounds. The night becomes darker as they unpack the power of the past.
POW-POW-POW-KA-BOOM, or, How Do We Get People to Care — 100 min, 8 actors (working draft)
A focus group reviewing reality TV pilots struggles to see eye to eye, simultaneously a presidential candidate gets frustrated with her chief of staff because he isn’t collecting data fast enough, all while a group of mysterious entities observe and decide the fate of life as we know it.
biome — 100 min, 5 actors (working draft)
A group of strangers are called to a field in a small rural town, they’re not sure why they’re there, but they all have mysterious scabs on their bodies, and the stars have gone missing. A pastoral drama about found family and the feelings in our gut we aim to repress.
But I’ll Die Trying — 90 min, 4 actors
It's the night of the apocalypse. Emerson is stuck late working as a receptionist at a beauty laser lab. The CEO stops by to toast his last loyal employee, the two realize they have more in common than either could have imagined. Through these revelations, they grapple with the costs of success and the sacrifices one makes to live authentically. As the final clients arrive, tears in the fabric of reality become so large they can no longer be ignored or stitched back together.
For Freya — 110 min, 2-3 actors (working draft)
During an unforgiving Alaskan winter night, a lonely woods person brings a snowwoman to life to keep them company until the spring. A fable about the weight of failing health and what we inherit from our ancestors.