Martin O'Connor is a performer, poet and theatre maker from Glasgow. Martin specialises in new writing projects, playwriting, and spoken word, with a strong emphasis on participation and working in applied contexts. His solo work includes The Mark of the Beast (Platform), Building a Nation (Glasgow Life), and Theology (The Arches). Martin writes in Glaswegian Scots and is a Gaelic learner.

Other writing and directing projects include Breath Cycle (Scottish Opera) Èirigh (Theatre Gu Leòr/BBC Radio nan Gàidheal), Turntable (with MJ McCarthy and Red Bridge Arts), editor of the book for An Audience With...(Janice Parker Projects), Submarine Time Machine (National Theatre of Scotland), The Pokey Hat (Culture 2014) and Alexander McCall Smith's Anamchara: Songs of Friendship (Scottish Opera).

Martin is an associate artist with Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre where he works as a mentor in pathways, employment and opportunities for young people. He is the director of the Tron Theatre Young Company, which recently staged The Food of Love, a new adaptation of Twelfth Night, and was part of the official COP26 programme with the sound piece Retro/Future. Other work with young people includes Citizens Young Company, Scottish Opera’s Connect, and Traverse Theatre’s Class Act.

Martin was the recipient of the 2018 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship hosted by Playwright’s Studio Scotland in partnership with the Royal Lyceum Theatre, and in 2020, was Writer in Residence with National Theatre of Scotland, developing new work in Gaelic, Scots and BSL. His two-year residency with Children's Hospices Across Scotland resulted in a new play A Little Life (Tron Theatre Mayfesto rehearsed reading). He has been Artist in Residence with Inverclyde Culture Collective and was Artist in Residence with Glasgow Life’s Creative Communities for three years.