Moisés Kaufman is a Venezuelan American theater director, filmmaker, playwright, founder of Tectonic Theater Project based in New York City, and co-founder of Miami New Drama at the Colony Theatre. He is best known for creating The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He has directed extensively on Broadway and Internationally and authored his own plays. Kaufman earned his BA in Business Administration at the Metropolitan University in Caracas and studied theatre directing at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. His writing debut, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde revealed how he wanted to focus his playwriting on what termed “watershed historical moments” that reveal the foundations of society’s beliefs. Kaufman also co-wrote and directed the HBO film adaptation of “The Laramie Project,” which received two Emmy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writer. In 2009 Kaufman and other Tectonic members arranged for 150 simultaneous readings in theatres across the globe of a sequel, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.
