Born and raised in the Ozarks, Barry Martin majored in Theater at Missouri
Southern State College and forgot to graduate before stumbling into a 23-year
career in radio in four different states. In 2008 he returned to the stage, and
shortly after co-founded the Napa-based Lucky Penny Productions with Taylor
Bartolucci. Together they produce quality theatre in the hinterlands of the North
San Francisco Bay.

Barry is an actor and director, and as a writer has to his credit
countless radio commercials, a handful of weirdly short and awkwardly long
plays, about 300 posts on his blog Barry's Life in Napa, and quite a few really
punchy letters to friends from back in the day when people still wrote letters. He
is a member of the Dramatists Guild and can recite the names of all fifty states in
thirty seconds or less. Everyone tells him he would do well on Jeopardy.