Martin Worman

Martin Worman (July 19, 1945 – November 25, 1993) was an actor, playwright, lyricist, director, female impersonator, activist and academic, working in the United States, primarily in San Francisco and New York City from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. He is most known for being a member of the psychedelic San Francisco drag troupe, The Cockettes.[1][2] Later, he wrote a rock opera and worked in theater, both in San Francisco and (after 1979) in New York City.[3] He is a 1967 graduate of Rutgers University and studied and then taught at New York University, where he wrote his dissertation about The Cockettes[3] and was a mentor to Antony Hegarty, later the leader of Antony and the Johnsons.[2] In 1992 he went to Antioch College in Ohio to start a regional theatre company; he died of AIDS in Dayton, Ohio on November 25, 1993.[3]

Worman's papers, including voluminous research on the history of The Cockettes, served as a basis for a documentary[4] and book about the group.[5] and were later acquired by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.[6]

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References
  1. Tent, Pam (2004). Midnight at the palace : my life as a fabulous Cockette. Los Angeles: Alyson Books. p. 272. ISBN 1-55583-874-X.
  2. "Antony Finds His Voice". The New York Times. September 4, 2005. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  3. Biographical Note at Martin Worman papers, 1960-2008. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library.
  4. A.O. Scott, "Film Review: Where the Drag Queens Wore Beards", The New York Times, June 28, 2002.
  5. Edward Guthmann, "Glitter, acid and bearded queens -- Sweet Pam details her Cockette days in all their far-out glory", San Francisco Chronicle, December 03, 2004.
  6. Michael Musto, "The Cockettes are Coming Back-ette at Ya!", The Village Voice, May 20, 2008.



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