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{MEM-1}{CAPCASE}As a queer playwright, Kaufman has simultaneously tackled questions of form and politics, including issues such as censorship, hate crimes, and queer identity.
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Moisés Kaufman
Venezuelan-American theater director, filmmaker and playwright
Moisés Kaufman (born November 21, 1963) 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.[1] He was awarded the 2016 National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.
He is best known for creating The Laramie Project (2000) with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He has directed extensively on Broadway and Internationally, and 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.[2]
Biography
Kaufman is of Romanian-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent, and was born in Caracas, Venezuela.[3] He is an alumnus of Venezuela's Universidad Metropolitana, where he began to study theatr