- Martin Hynes was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon; he graduated from Columbia University with a history degree. During and after college, he worked in New York theater and sketch comedy. Hynes then attended the graduate film school at USC, where he received the Paramount Pictures Fellowship. His student film "Al as in Al" premiered at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, and was one of the films chosen by USC to celebrate the best student work in the school's 75-year history.
Just after film school, Hynes directed a low-budget independent feature "The Big Split," in which he starred with Judy Greer. The film premiered at AFI's Los Angeles International Film Festival. Hynes also starred in the hit short film "George Lucas In Love." For his performance as the young George Lucas, he accepted a Best Actor award in San Sebastian. Hynes has written scripts for Universal/Imagine, Disney and New Line.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Directed wrote and acted at the New York Theatre Workshop, the Riverside Shakespeare Company, and Circle Rep.
- Founded a sketch comedy and improv group which performed at The Duplex and Stand Up New York.
- Was hired to write a comic re-working of The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), and a Martin Lawrence vehicle, Expiration Date (1996).
- For his performance as George Lucas, Hynes was nominated for a Pixie Award; the first-annual on-line Oscar.
- He wrote a screenplay called "Stealing Stanford," the story of which was that Mom and Dad (he imagined Steve Martin and Diane Keaton) take to a life of crime to pay for their daughter's education. The script was completely re-written by Peter Tolan, and the parts intended for those two were played by Jason Lee and Tom Green, and the title changed to Stealing Harvard.
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