Martin Covert
- Actor
Martin Covert, a New Orleans native, has recently appeared as a supporting actor in a number of high-profile film and television projects. Prior to beginning his screen work, he boasted an extensive stage career
spanning the decades since his debut with Nancy Staub's Puppet Theater
at Gallery Circle Theatre in the French Quarter in 1966. His theatrical
credits include many years at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at
Tulane where he appeared as Polonius in Hamlet, Casca in Julius
Caesar, Porter in Macbeth, the Duke of Cornwall in King Lear and many
other supporting roles. His work with the Dog and Pony Theatre at New
Orleans City Park includes Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Fool in
King Lear and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has also worked
with the acclaimed NOLA Project and in historic New Orleans premieres
of The Laramie Project, The Iceman Cometh, Tennessee Williams' Small
Craft Warnings and Shut Up Sweet Charlotte with Varla Jean Merman.
