Hydrophobia

The Writer: Chris Courtney Martin

Chris Courtney Martin is a multidisciplinary artist from Philadelphia, where they were cemented to their craft. As a pre-teen recruit of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth , they were granted scholarships three summers in a row to take accelerated courses in Creative Writing/Poetry, Logic and Film Studies. This illustrious program-- which boasts alumni such as Lady Gaga, Mark Zuckerberg, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Yang-- made it possible for Martin to embrace their calling as an arrant nerd. In high school, Martin placed in the Philadelphia Young Playwrights competition three years out of four and was honored with a staged reading at the historic Wilma Theatre , which… Go to bio