MOST LIKELY TO BE BACKSTAGE
MOISÉS KAUFMAN
As founder of the Tectonic Theater Project, Venezuelan-born writer and director Kaufman has staged productions of some of the last decade’s most dialogue-opening pieces of theater: 1997’s Gross Indecency, 2003’s I Am My Own Wife, and this year’s 33 Variations, which brought Jane Fonda back to the Broadway stage after a 46-year absence.
He’s best known, however, for The Laramie Project, the play and HBO movie he and members of Tectonic created after interviewing residents of Matthew Shephard’s hometown following his murder in 1998. A decade later, they interviewed the same Laramie residents to create The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later which premiered simultaneously in 150 different theaters in all 50 states and eight different countries on October 12th.
