MJ Kaufman (he/they) is a writer living in Brooklyn. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, WP Theater, NAATCO, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Williamstown Theater Festival, InterAct Theater and numerous other theaters and schools around the country as well as in Russian in Moscow and in Australia. MJ has held residencies at the New Museum, MacDowell Colony, SPACE on Ryder Farm and are currently a resident playwright at New Dramatists. MJ co-founded Trans Lab Fellowship, a program to support emerging transgender theater artists which ran from 2018-2022. They are currently on the board and part of the core community of Breaking the Binary Theatre. MJ’s short film Therapist Crush won the Audience Choice Best Film Award at TRANSlations film festival. MJ has also written for Netflix. They recently completed the Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship at the Center for Fiction and are at work on a novel. They have a dog named Milkshake.
