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WHO’S WHO

Playwriting, the 2013 Global Age Project
Prize, and the 2010 Jane Chambers
Prize in Feminist Theatre MJ has held
residencies at the MacDowell Colony and
SPACE on Ryder Farm and is currently a
resident playwright at New Dramatists. MJ
has been a member of the Public Theater’s
Emerging Writers’ Group, WP Theater Lab,
a core playwright at InterAct Theatre and a
playwriting fellow at the Huntington Theater
An alum of Wesleyan University and Yale
School of Drama, MJ has taught playwriting
at Fordham University, Wesleyan
University, SUNY Purchase College, the
RAVEN JUSTINE TROUP* (Tyler/Tracy) University of the Arts and as a teaching
is thrilled to be returning for a second fellow at Yale College. MJ curated the 2016
production with Stages! Stages: Little and 2017 seasons of Trans Theater Fest at
Shop of Horrors (Crystal); TUTS: Elf the The Brick and, along with Kit Yan, founded
Musical (Jovie), Spring Awakening (Isle), Trans Lab Fellowship, a program to support
Seussical the Musical (Gertrude), Mamma emerging transgender theater artists They
Mia! (Lisa), and The Wiz (Ensemble); Alley were recently a staff writer on seasons 1
All New: The Aves (Young Woman), When and 2 of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
We Left (Avline), and Sophia (Xerxes); The on Netflix Find out about upcoming shows
Alley Theater: Amerikin (Chris), Skeleton by joining MJ’s mailing list at: https://
Crew (Asst Director), and A Christmas tinyletter.com/mjkaufmanster
Carol (Martha); Obsidian Theater: For
Colored Girls… (Orange); Art Factory: LESLIE SWACKHAMER (Director)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Yitzhak), Stages: NSFW, My Mañana Comes, The
Funny Girl (Fanny), Heathers the Musical Revisionist, Straight White Men, Marie
(Chandler), Disenchanted (Princess Who Antoinette, Rabbit Hole, In the Next
Kissed the Frog), Spelling Bee (Marcy), Room or The Vibrator Play, The Andrews
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Esmeralda) Brothers, Failure: A Love Story, Man from
Brooklyn the Musical (Paradice), Lizzie Nebraska, The Great American Trailer
the Musical (Lizzie), and Jekyll & Hyde Park Musical, Lady,Amy’s View. Regional:
(Emma). Constellations (The Alley Theatre); ACT
Theatre (Seattle): A Christmas Carol,
MJ KAUFMAN (Playwright) is a playwright Avenue X, Old Wicked Songs, Later Life,
and television writer from Portland, OR. Going to St. Ives, The Nina Variations;
Their work has been seen at the Public The Psychic Life of Savages (The Empty
Theater, WP Theater, Huntington Theatre, Space) Madison Rep: Wit, What Corbin
New York Theater Workshop, the New Knew; Much Ado About Nothing (Seattle
Museum, NAATCO, Clubbed Thumb, Shakespeare); numerous Cleveland Play
Playwrights Realm, Colt Coeur, Yale School House productions including Reckless,
of Drama, Lark Play Development Center The Baltimore Waltz and The Butcher’s
and InterAct Theater, among others. Their Daughter; American Stage: Lost in Yonkers,
work has also been performed in Russian Mrs. Klein; Tacoma Theatre Guild: Driving
in Moscow and in Australia. MJ received Miss Daisy, The Whales of August; The
the 2017 Helen Merrill Emerging Writers Last Schwartz (Florida Studio Theatre).
Award, 2013 ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Other theatres include Southcoast Rep,