About Tectonic Theater Project

Tectonic Theater Project (Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director, Greg Reiner, Executive Director, Jeffrey LaHoste, Managing Director, Dominick Balletta, General Manager) is an award-winning company whose plays have been performed around the world. Since 1992 TTP has produced innovative works that explore theatrical language and form, fostering an artistic dialogue with our audiences on the social, political and human issues of the day. The company has developed and produced works for theater and film, including: 33 Variations (nominated for 5 Tony Awards including Best Play), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; The Laramie Project (one of the most produced plays in the country, as well as an HBO movie written and directed by Kaufman); and I Am My Own Wife (2004 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for best play). Tectonic has garnered numerous awards including the Humanitas Prize, the Obie, the Lucille Lortel Award, The Outer Critics Circle Award, the GLAAD Media Award, the Artistic Integrity Award from the Human Rights Campaign, and the Making a Difference Award from the Matthew Shepard Foundation. The film of The Laramie Project was also honored with four Emmy Nominations, The National Board of Review Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie and a Golden Bear Award from the Berlin Film Festival. In addition to creating theatrical works, Tectonic Theater Project works in residence at Universities around the country and hosts a New York based training lab for theater artists.

As a non-profit laboratory we are grateful for the long term support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greenwall Foundation, The Arcus Foundation, The Small Change Foundation, The Educational Foundation of America, Shawn Donnelley, Jeanne Sullivan, and Jeanne Donovan-Fisher. For more information on the company, visit www.tectonictheaterproject.org.

Moisés Kaufman

Moisés Kaufman is a Tony and Emmy nominated director and award-winning playwright. His plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project have been among the most performed plays in America over the last decade. Mr. Kaufman also directed the Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play I Am My Own Wife, earning him an Obie award for his direction as well as Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations. Other recent credits include: 33 Variations (La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage); Macbeth with Liev Schreiber (Public Theater); Lady Windermere's Fan (Williamstown Theater Festival); This Is How It Goes (Donmar Warehouse); One Arm by Tennessee Williams (Steppenwolf Theater Company); and Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Repertory Theater). As a writer/ director: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Joe Callaway Award, GLAAD Media Award); The Laramie Project (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk noms, GLAAD Media Award). Mr. Kaufman also directed the film adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO, which was the opening night selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and won the National Board of Review Award, the Humanitas Prize and a Special Mention for Best First Film at the Berlin Film Festival. The film also earned Mr. Kaufman two Emmy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writer. He is the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting.

Leigh Fondakowski

Leigh Fondakowski was the Head Writer of The Laramie Project and has been a member of Tectonic Theatre Project since 1995. She is an Emmy nominated co-screenwriter for the adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO. Her latest work, The People's Temple, has been performed under her direction at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Perseverance Theater, American Theater Company and The Guthrie Theater, and received the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area in 2005. Another original play, I Think I Like Girls, premiered at Encore Theater in San Francisco under her direction and was voted one of the top 10 plays of 2002 by The Advocate. Other directing credits include: Gerda?s Lieutenant by Ellen Greeves and Bennett Singer (Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts) 3 Seconds in the Key by Deb Margolin (San Francisco Playhouse), The Laramie Project (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theater), La Voix Humaine by Jean Cocteau (Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh). Leigh is a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights and is developing a play about 19th century actress Charlotte Cushman with About Face Theatre and Tectonic Theater Project. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Masters in Contemporary Performance program at Naropa University.

Greg Pierotti

Greg Pierotti was associate writer of The Laramie Project, for which he and his collaborators received a NY Drama Desk Award nomination and a Lucille Lortel nomination. They later adapted the play to the small screen for HBO. For the adaptation, he and his collaborators received an Emmy nomination for best writing of a film and were nominated for a GLAAD award. He performed the The Laramie Project, at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center, and The Union Square Theater in NY. He is the head writer of The People?s Temple. He and his collaborators received the Will Glickman Award for best New American play. He performed the play at Berkeley Repertory Theater, Perseverance Theater, and The Guthrie. As a writer/actor he has developed and/or performed original and classical work at Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, The Magic, The Atlantic Theatre Company, The Sundance Theatre Lab in Utah, New York Theatre Workshop, and the NYTW summer writer?s lab at Dartmouth. Most recently he is collaborating on Laramie + 10, a new epilogue of The Laramie Project which revisits the town ten years later. Greg has taught theater and Tectonic Theater Project's moment work at high schools and colleges around the country and in Naropa University's MFA program in contemporary performance.

Andy Paris

As a founding member of Tectonic Theatre Project, Andy has appeared in three productions directed by Moises Kaufman (MACHINAL, GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE and THE LARAMIE PROJECT) as well as several workshops and readings. He is proud to have been a part of the development of the company and marvels at its continued success. Other credits include: INNOCENTS (dir. Rachel Dickstein), MANKYNDE: THE MUSICAL (dir. Louis Scheeder), PROOF (Playmaker?s Rep), WIT (dir. Josephine Abady), TWELFTH NIGHT (dir. John Rando), THE QUIET ROOM (dir. Lucie Tiberghien), RED NOSES (dir. Melissa Kievman), PHAEDRE (dir. Matthew Maguire), INDELIBLE FLESH (dir. Randy Rollison), QUICK, BRIGHT THINGS (by Jesse McKinley), CYMBELINE (dir. Mr. Scheeder), THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOOM, 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE, and LOVE'S LABOURS LOST. Andy has lent his voice to several books for Recorded Books Productions and starred in SMILE, a Radio Play. He is a graduate of NYU.

Stephen Belber

Stephen Belber's plays include Geomtery of Fire, (Rattlestick), Fault Lines, (Naked Angels/Cherry Lane), A Small, Melodramatic Story, (LAByrinth Theater Company), McReele (Roundabout), Match (Broadway, Tony nomination for Frank Langella), Tape (Naked Angels--NYC/LA/London), The Laramie Project (Associate Writer), Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theater), One Million Butterflies (Primary Stages), Drifting Elegant (Magic Theater), The Transparency of Val (Theater Outrageous, NYC), The Wake (Via Theater, NYC), Through Fred (Soho Rep) and The Death of Frank (Araca Group, NYC). As a screenwriter, he wrote Tape, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke (Sundance; Berlin); The Laramie Project (Associate Writer) for HBO Films, (Sundance, Emmy nomination for screenwriting); and Drifting Elegant, directed by Amy Glazer. He recently wrote and directed his first feature, Management, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. He is currently developing screenplays based on McReele (for Will Smith?s Overbrook production company), and Match. TV credits include Rescue Me and Law & Order SVU, (staff writer). He has received commissions from Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington Theater, Arena Stage and Philadelphia Theater Company.