Carlos E. Martínez

Director

2025, he/him MFA, Directing

Carlos is a Dominican-born director, designer, producer, and translator. In 2020, he founded Punto Zeta Productions, a theater company dedicated to reimagining the possibilities of theater in the Dominican Republic. As its artistic director, Carlos has directed and designed Spanish-language productions of Metamorphoses, The Masque of the Red Death, Art, and Noises Off, as well as devised original works like Morir Soñando and Entre Líneas, both of which explored the relationship between love, death, and Dominican culture. He also translated and directed the Dominican production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

At Carnegie Mellon University, Carlos directed Ghosts, Lonely Planet, Flores Para los Muertos (a magical-realist adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire), and Kiboko Bay. His short film projects include Oysters for Breakfast, Frequencies, and The Bear. While studying Production Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, he was the assistant director for The Lucas Show and sound effects designer for Men on Boats, among other projects. 

Recently, Carlos worked as assistant director on Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Dial M for Murder and as assistant director and translator for Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border at City Theatre. He is also a poster designer, creating artwork for Carnegie Mellon University’s productions across three consecutive seasons.

He continues to dream of work that stands at the intersection of realism and magic, calls dibs on the invisible, and questions the meaning of Hispanicness in ephemeral contexts.

website: cemartinez.com
Instagram: cemartine.z , https://www.instagram.com/cemartine.z/

Work Samples

Lonely Planet

By Steven Dietz
Directed by Carlos E. Martínez
CMU School of Drama – April 2024

Lonely Planet

By Steven Dietz
Directed by Carlos E. Martínez
CMU School of Drama – April 2024

A Streetcar Named Desire

By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Carlos E. Martínez