Worman, Martin

Martin Worman was an actor, playwright, lyricist, director, female impersonator, activist and academic, working in the United Stated, primarily in San Francisco and New York from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. He was born on July 19, 1945 in Paterson, New Jersey, and attended Eastside High School in Paterson. He received a B.A. from Rutgers University and an M.A. in Theater Arts from Long Island University. After being drafted into the United States Army in July of 1967, Worman was stationed in Fort Irwin, California where he served as the editor of the publication Tank Tracks, until his discharge in December of 1968 for "Unsuitability."

After his discharge, Worman travelled in Europe and North Africa. He returned to the United States and hitchhiked to San Francisco, where he found himself drawn into the gay liberation and counter-culture movements. Worman joined a cross-dressing improvisational theatre troupe called The Cockettes and in July of 1970, he appeared in his first Cockettes show, Hollywood Babylon . Worman had been a fan of The Cockettes since he had seen one of their shows, Gone With the Showboat to Oklahoma .

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