Moisés Kaufman

Moisés Kaufman
Born	November 21, 1963 (1963-11-21) (age 47) Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation	playwright, theatre director
Nationality	American

Moisés Kaufman (born November 21, 1963) is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 33 Variations and is perhaps best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to New York City in 1987.^[1]

Kaufman is of Romanian and Ukrainian Jewish descent.^[2]

Kaufman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.^[3]

He made his Broadway directing debut in the 2004 production of I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play.

Awards

• Steinberg/ATCA Best New Play Award—2008: "33 Variations"
• Obie Award
• Outer Critics Circle Award
• GLAAD Media Award
• Drama Desk Award
• Lucille Lortel Award
• Carbonell Award
• Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award
• Lambda Book Award
• Venezuela's Casa del Artista
• American Library Association's GLBT Literature Award
• Matthew Shepard Foundation’s “Making A Difference Award"
• Artistic Integrity Award from the Human Rights Campaign
• National Board of Review Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie
• Golden Bear Award from the Berlin Film Festival
• Humanitas Prize
• Joe A. Callaway Award
• The Tony Award

Stage Directing Credits

• Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
• Puss in Boots (El Gato con Botas)
• 33 Variations
• Macbeth (with Liev Schreiber) for The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park
• Lady Windermere's Fan
• This Is How It Goes
• Master Class (with Rita Moreno)
• One Arm by Tennessee Williams
• I Am My Own Wife
• The Laramie Project
• Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
• Marlow's Eye
• The Nest
• Women in Beckett
• Machinal
• Coxinga

Film credits

• The Laramie Project

Television credits

• The L Word (2 episodes)

References

1. ^ Hurwitt, Robert (2001-05-20). "The 'Laramie' process". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/20/PK65537.DTL. 
2. ^ Robert Myers (25 May 1997). "'Nothing Mega About It Except the Applause'". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/25/theater/nothing-mega-about-it-except-the-applause.html. Retrieved 6 Jully 2009. 
3. ^ "Moisés Kaufman". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2002. http://www.gf.org/fellows/7637-moises-kaufman. Retrieved 2009-03-03. 

External links

• Moisés Kaufman at the Internet Movie Database
• Moisés Kaufman at the Internet Broadway Database
• Moisés Kaufman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Moisés Kaufman The Jewish Theatre Interview
• Tectonic Theater Project

See also

Theatre portal

• List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: K

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Name	Kaufman, Moises
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Date of birth	1963-11-21
Place of birth	Caracas, Venezuela
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