Martha Fitzgerald is a writer, director and maker for stage and screen, based primarily in Dublin, Ireland.

Since graduating from UCD with a 1st Class Honours MA in Theatre Practice in 2019, she co-founded Fizz & Chips Productions, and has staged multiple works with them, such as DRAGON (The New Theatre, 2020; Smock Alley Theatre, 2019), Never Mind the Weather (A Riverbank Arts Centre co-production, 2021), The Witches of East Wall (in-progress, The New Theatre, 2021) and An Lasairéan (A Riverbank Arts Centre co-production, 2019). She wrote and directed the first Fizz & Chips short film, Faitíos, in 2020, which won multiple awards including the Best Cinematography award in Galway Film Fleadh and Best Irish Language Short at Still Voices Festival in 2021.

Martha has worked with a number of Ireland’s leading theatre and screen organisations, such as Fishamble: The New Play Company, Ros na Rún, and Deadpan Pictures. She is a two-time shortlisted writer for the BBC Script Room: Comedy open competition, and regularly collaborates with writer/director Chris Kelly. Together, they co-directed Twenty Minutes from Nowhere, which premiered in Bewley’s Café Theatre in November 2021. Internationally, she has worked with the Brussels-based Ras El Hanout and been resident at Theatre des Doms, Avignon.

As an artist, Martha is interested in socially-engaged work that is often interdisciplinary, multilingual, and collaborative. During the creative process and in the work, she values respect, open communication, humour and play. Thematically, she often gravitates to the areas of gender and human relationships.