Moisés Kaufman




















Moisés Kaufman
Born
(1963-11-21) November 21, 1963 (age 55)
Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation playwright, theatre director
Nationality American
Website
www.tectonictheaterproject.org/Moises_Kaufman.html

Moisés Kaufman (born November 21, 1963) is a Venezuelan playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project, based in New York City. He is best known for writing and producing The Laramie Project (2000) with other members of Tectonic Theater Project, which he founded. He is the author of numerous plays, including Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and 33 Variations.


Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, he moved as a young man to [New York City]] in 1987.[1]




Contents






  • 1 Biography


  • 2 Awards


  • 3 Stage directing credits


  • 4 Film credits


  • 5 Television credits


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links


  • 8 See also





Biography


Kaufman is of Romanian and Ukrainian Jewish descent, and was born in Caracas, Venezuela.[2] He is an alumnus of Venezuela's Universidad Metropolitana, where he began to study theatre.[3] After immigrating to the United States, he went to college in New York and graduated from NYU.[4]


In 2005 he described himself in an interview by saying, "I am Venezuelan, I am Jewish, I am gay, I live in New York. I am the sum of all my cultures. I couldn't write anything that didn't incorporate all that I am."[5]


Kaufman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, following the premiere of The Laramie Project, which was based on extensive interviews with residents and commentators in and around Wyoming who were involved with the aftermath of the murder of gay student Matthew Shepard.[6]


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.


On September 22, 2016, Kaufman was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities in a ceremony conducted by U.S. president Barack Obama. He is the first Venezuelan to receive the honor.[4]



Awards



  • Steinberg/ATCA Best New Play Award—2008: 33 Variations

  • 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 LGBT 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

  • 2016 National Medal of Arts and Humanities



Stage directing credits



  • Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

  • Puss in Boots (El Gato con Botas)

  • 33 Variations


  • Macbeth (starring Liev Schreiber) for The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park

  • Lady Windermere's Fan

  • This Is How It Goes

  • Into The Woods


  • Master Class (with Rita Moreno)


  • One Arm by Tennessee Williams


  • I Am My Own Wife (2004, his Broadway debut)


  • The Laramie Project (2000)

  • Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

  • Marlow's Eye

  • The Nest

  • Women in Beckett

  • Machinal

  • Coxinga

  • The Nightingale

  • The Heiress

  • Torch Song Trilogy



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..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Robert Myers (25 May 1997). "'Nothing Mega About It Except the Applause'". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 July 2009.


  3. ^ [1]


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  5. ^ Orozco, Jose (March 21, 2005). "True To Reality: An Interview with Moises Kaufman". Morphizm. Retrieved 6 August 2012. I am Venezuelan, I am Jewish, I am gay, I live in New York. I am the sum of all my cultures. I couldn't write anything that didn't incorporate all that I am.


  6. ^ "Moisés Kaufman". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2009-03-03.




External links




  • Interview: Moisés Kaufman, The Jewish Theatre

  • Tectonic Theater Project


  • Moisés Kaufman on IMDb


  • Moisés Kaufman at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata


  • Moisés Kaufman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database



See also



  • List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: K









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