They returned to Chicago in 1967 to rejoin Sills, Sheldon Patinkin, Bernie Sahlins and Joyce Sloane in forming Second City Repertory and then Story Theatre.
Sheldon Patinkin, author, teacher, director, and one of the founding fathers of The Second City, is his second cousin.
About that time, friend and colleague Sheldon Patinkin asked Martin to join the staff of the recently created The Second City Training Center, the theater's official improv training program.
Among his many other credits as a director are shows with Irish Rep and the Galway Festival in Ireland where he directed John Mahoney.
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He wrote (with Jim Jacobs) Island of Lost Coeds, a two-act musical, produced at Columbia College Chicago under the direction of Sheldon Patinkin.