---
name: "Martin Sherman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/martin-sherman-66703"
fi1m_id: "martin-sherman-66703"
imdb_id: "nm0792526"
tmdb_id: 66703
wikidata_id: "Q650024"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "22 December 1938"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:00:26.844252+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Martin Sherman

## Identity

Martin Sherman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/martin-sherman-66703
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** martin-sherman-66703
- **IMDb ID:** nm0792526
- **TMDB ID:** 66703
- **Wikidata ID:** Q650024
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sherman_(dramatist), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792526/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66703

Writer. Born 22 December 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 22 December 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sherman_(dramatist), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792526/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66703

## Coming up

- *Frank and Percy* (2026-10-13), Writer

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Clothes in the Wardrobe*](https://film.one/film/the-clothes-in-the-wardrobe.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Martin Sherman is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Philadelphia in 1938, he studied at Boston University College of Fine Arts, where he received a BFA in Dramatic Arts in 1960, and trained at the Actors Studio. He has lived and worked in London since 1980.

Sherman is best known for his stage play *Bent* (1979), which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play in 1980 and won the Dramatists Guild's Hull-Warriner Award; he adapted it for a 1997 film. His other notable screenwriting credits include *The Clothes in the Wardrobe* (1993, released in the US as *The Summer House*), *Alive and Kicking* (1996), *Callas Forever* (2002), *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone* (2003) and *Mrs. Henderson Presents* (2005). He has also written musicals such as *The Boy from Oz* (2003).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Clothes in the Wardrobe* (1993), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-clothes-in-the-wardrobe.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Frank and Percy* (2026), Writer
- *Rose* (2021), Writer
- *Bent* (2018), Writer
- *The Empty Plan* (2010), as Pavel
- *Mrs. Henderson Presents* (2005), Writer
- *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone* (2003), Writer
- *Callas Forever* (2002), Screenplay
- *Bent* (1997), Screenplay, Theatre Play, Co-Producer
- *Alive and Kicking* (1996), as Man at Pub · Writer
- *The Clothes in the Wardrobe* (1993), Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-clothes-in-the-wardrobe.md)
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical 2004: Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (nominated), for *The Boy from Oz*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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