Matthew Quinn Martin (born Matthew Szoke, 1973) is an American actor and writer of films and short fiction. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Martin is a graduate of Albertus Magnus College, and holds and MFA from Stonecoast University of Southern Maine. He is of mixed European heritage, including Hungarian, Ukrainian and Penn Dutch.
Martin's original screenplay Slingshot[1][2] was made into a feature film by Bold Films[1] and is distributed by the Weinstein Company. Slingshot premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival[1] and was featured on Access Hollywood.
His short fiction has appeared in Transition Magazine, Thuglit,[3] The Oddville Press, MFA/MFYou Literary Journal,[4] Aphelion Webzine,[5] The Flash Fiction Offensive,[6] A Twist of Noir, and The Crossing Chaos Anthology: Quantum Genre on the Planet of Arts (co-written with Libby Cudmore),
As an actor he has appeared in the remodernist film Shooting at the Moon, and P.S. I Love You, and was a minor recurring co-star on the first season of the TV show Fringe.[7]