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M J Kaufman

M J KAUFMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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MJ Kaufman is a playwright whose work has also been developed and produced by Huntington Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, Yale School of Drama, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Aurora Theater, Crowded Fire, Fresh Ink Theatre, New Harmony Project and performed in Russian in Moscow. They have received awards and commissions from the Program for Women in Theater, the Playwrights Foundation, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Young Playwrights Inc., and the Huntington Theatre, where they are also a playwriting fellow. MJ received the 2013 ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting, the 2013 Global Age Project Prize, and the 2010 Jane Chambers Prize in Feminist Theatre. MJ is currently a member of the Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writers Group, The Falcons, an Audrey Resident at New Georges and a Resident Artist at The Drama League. Originally from Portland, Oregon, MJ attended Wesleyan University and recently received an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of M J Kaufman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Don't Drink From The River         Live Dress, A         Love Poems For A Dead Body         Murmur Rock         Other Grace, The         Outlaw Jean         Saggittaurus Ponderosa         Trannequin!         Ursula Invents Old Woman         Wolves Eat Elk         Yiddish King Lear, The

Don't Drink From The River

Synopsis:
Nina is a High School senior. One day her mother refuses to get out of bed. She goes to the local queer and transgender drop in centre for advice. She meets Bo the only other transgender person there. They bond Nina asks Bo to come and live with her and her mother. He does

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Gay of interest

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Live Dress, A

Synopsis:
The Lower East Side in 1923 and young girls are disappearing at night - next morning their dresses turn up.

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Love Poems For A Dead Body

Synopsis:
There are romantic complications at the Women's Jewish Burial Society. A mysterious letter arrives and the women send for the only Jewish private eye in Brooklyn - Sassy Feigenbaum. Sassy arrives and discovers a dead body in the broom cupboard

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Genre:
Lesbian full length

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Murmur Rock

Synopsis:
An American family is determined to have a fun vacation reconnecting with their roots in a small German village, but it's hard to have fun when nothing goes as expected. Grandfather's house is gone and the family graves aren't in the cemetary. Why are all the tour guides so weird? Is this even the right town?

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Workshop, Huntington Theater     2014

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Genre:
dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  1

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Other Grace, The

Synopsis:
Grace meets a boy also called Grace in her kindergarten class. They become friends. When there are problems at home the two Graces run away

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Gay of interest

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Outlaw Jean

Synopsis:
Outlaw Jean has a $100,000 reward on her head. She wants to get to the top of the outlaw heap - but this means returning home and getting her mother's blessing

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Saggittaurus Ponderosa

Synopsis:
Archer (still Angela to his family) doesn't want to move back to his childhood home in eastern Oregon when his father falls ill. But at night under the oldest Ponderosa Pine, he meets a stranger who knows the history of the forests and the sadness of losing endangered things. As Archer accepts big changes in his family he discovers the power of names and the histories they make and mask.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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Genre:
Gay of interest

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Trannequin!

Synopsis:
Georgia is a mannequin in a Fifth Avenue shop. She realises that she does not like wearing women's clothes and wants to transfer to the men's clothing department

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian musical

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Ursula Invents Old Woman

Synopsis:
Ursula K Le Guin, award-winning science fiction author, is in the midst of a major period of writer's block. Then her world is turned upside down when she is visited by her biggest fan: an agender being from another galaxy. In their time together this unlikely pair will have intergalactic intercourse, practice formlessness, and invent old woman. This original work is co-created by three artists of different ages: Marcia Ferguson  Director of Theatre Arts, UPenn; Mason Rosenthal  FringeArts Fellow, NYU Faculty; and trans-identified playwright M J Kaufman  Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, MFA Yale.

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1st Produced:
C nova, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     10 Aug 2015

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Marcia Ferguson and Mason Rosenthal (USA)

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Wolves Eat Elk

Synopsis:
Alex has just finished a summer of dissertation research in the Minnesota woods and is eager to get back on the road to his boyfriend at school back east when he finds himself trapped in the surreal world of Elk Kingdom. The Elk need him to complete a strange and specific task before he can leave: tame the wolf that is threatening their herd. Alex wrestles with what the Elk ask of him and the implications for both the ecosystem and his journey home.

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Genre:
LGBT full length

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Yiddish King Lear, The

Synopsis:
Shakespeare's "King Lear" as a modern Jewish family

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