Martin Jago (born 4 August 1972) is a British theatre director and author. His first book, To Play or Not to Play: 50 Games for Acting Shakespeare, with a foreword by British actor Alfred Molina, was published in the U.S. in 2012 by Smith & Kraus. His second book, ESL Shakespeare: 101 Everyday Phrases, also published by Smith & Kraus, was released in 2013. Educated at The University of Oxford, Jago first trained as an actor at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before a change of career in 2004 to focus on directing and writing for theatre and in 2014 he founded the Los Angeles-based theatre company, Raze the Space, which produces an annual festival of ten-minute plays and theatre awards at The Samuel French Bookstore in Hollywood.