Moisés Kaufman
Theatre Director, Theater Director
1963 –
Who is Moisés Kaufman?
Moisés Kaufman is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He is also the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and 33 Variations. He was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to New York City in 1987.
Kaufman is of Romanian and Ukrainian Jewish descent. 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."
Kaufman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. 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.
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- Born
- Nov 21, 1963
Caracas - Also known as
- Moises Kaufman
- Nationality
- Venezuela
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Tisch School of the Arts
Drama - Theatre Director
- Bachelor's degree, Universidad Metropolitana
Business Administration
( - 1985)
- Tisch School of the Arts
- Lived in
- Caracas
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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