Biography

Martha Ferguson is a Canadian film director, actor and writer.

Her films include: The Wet Season, starring Ellen Page, Maury Chaykin, and Jackie Burroughs, The Crying Booth, Airing on, Bravo! Network, Elbow Shots, it's not you, it's me, Love School and Freestate: Winner Best Short Film at, IIFF, in Zimbabwe. Her films have been screened around the world at various film festivals: Cannes Short Film Corner, Raindance London Film Festival, Soho NYC Film Festival, Toronto Independent Film Festival, Female Eye Toronto Film Festival, IIFF-International Images of Zimbabwe, The Vancouver Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, L.A. Short Film Festival. In 2016, Love School, showcased in Paris at Haute House in the Palais Royal. Her films can be seen on the pay TV channel, ShortsTV.

Martha began her career as a child actor, doing TV commercials and appearing in Canadian TV and film. She holds BA, Drama from the University of Guelph, BA, Media Arts Program at Ryerson University. She studied acting at the H.B Studio, NYC under Uta Hagen, Herbert Bergoff, and William Hickey, Carol Rosenfeld and in Toronto, under Miriam Laurence, Jacqueline McClintock, and David Rotenberg. Martha splits her time between Paris, France and Toronto, Canada.

She co-founded the critically acclaimed Bananafish Theatre Company in Toronto where she co-created, produced, and acted in the theatre hits: Bananafish: The Album, Measuring the False, Dog Poetry, The Door is Closed Backwards, and This Hotel.

From 2010 to 2012 she lived in Harare, Zimbabwe where she was on the jury for IIFF: The International Images Festival for Women of Zimbabwe. She also co-produced the performance and performed in the Zimbabwean documentary, HIFA: Harare International Festival of the Arts. She also produced and performed in the play, The Fever, by Wallace Shawn, in Harare.

In 2016, Martha completed shooting the web-series, Paris Crush, shot in Paris, France which she co-created, co-wrote and directed. She is developing the feature film version of Freestate, in Zimbabwe and the film, Ronnie and Linda later died, in Paris. Her mother is an actress and her father is a jazz pianist. She is married to Edzo Wisman and they have two children.
- IMDb mini biography by: Martha Ferguson