Marta Becket was born in 1924, in New York City. A dancer on Broadway, TV and countless small venues all across America. As a painter, Becket has been the subject of retrospective art exhibits in New York and Nevada.
In 1967, Becket moved to Death Valley Junction, eventually bought the abandoned theater, and has lived there ever since, putting on productions of her own original “dance mimes.” Becket’s career at the Amargosa Opera House has been the subject of numerous news articles and magazine features. In 2000, Amargosa, a film by Todd Robinson about Becket and her theater, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category.