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Based in New York City and guided by founder and artistic director Moisés Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project develops new plays using the company’s trademarked theater-making method, Moment Work, and through a rigorous process of research and collaboration in a laboratory environment.

Since its founding in 1991 the company has created and staged over twenty plays and musicals, including Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Laramie Project, Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, the Tony Award-winning 33 Variations, the Drama Desk Award-winning Seven Deadly Sins, and Here There Are Blueberries, winner of the The Theater J Trish Vradenburg Jewish Play Prize.

MISSION & VALUES

Tectonic Theater Project is a developmental company that creates and produces works for the stage that rigorously explore theatrical language and form. Based in New York City, we build plays from the ground up and bring new life to existing scripts on stages across the United States and around the world. Our core values are courage and risk taking, innovation, theatricality, social & political change, and egalitarianism: everyone has a voice in the creation of new work.

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TECTONIC TIMELINE

Summer 1991

Tectonic Theater Project was founded in 1991 by Moisés Kaufman and his husband Jeffrey LaHoste in NYC after Kaufman left the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
November 1991

Moisés Kaufman directs Women in Beckett – a collection of all of Beckett’s short plays for women, set in an institution for the elderly.
September 1994

Moisés Kaufman directs Franz Xaver Kroetz’s The Nest at Theater for the New City.
February 1996

Moisés Kaufman directs Naomi Iizuka’s Marlowe’s Eye – marking the first time Tectonic worked directly with the playwright to edit and rewrite a play.
February 1997

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde opens Off-Broadway at the Greenwich House Theater. It was later transferred to Minetta Lane Theater, running through September 1998.
November 1998

Members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, following the murder of Matthew Shepard. They conducted over 200 interviews with people in Laramie.
February 2000

The Laramie Project premieres at The Denver Center Theater Company.
July 2001

A workshop of I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, directed by Moisés Kaufman, was presented at La Jolla Playhouse.
January 2002

The film adaptation of The Laramie Project premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later being broadcasted on HBO in March 2002. The film was Emmy nominated.
May 2003

Playwrights Horizons produced the world premiere off-Broadway production of I Am My Own Wife, running through August 3, 2003, before moving to Broadway in November 2003.
June 2004

I Am My Own Wife wins Tony Awards for Best Actor and Best Play as well as a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
August 2009

33 Variations opens on Broadway at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre starring Jane Fonda.
October 2009

On the 11th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard, Tectonic premiered The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later simultaneously in 150 theaters in all 50 states and 8 countries.
October 2009

Moisés Kaufman and Jeffery LaHoste the signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act at the White House.
October 2010

Montsalvatge’s El Gato con Botas (Puss in Boots) premieres with Gotham Chamber Opera presented at The New Victory Theater.
May 2011

Tennesse Williams' One Arm opens Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theater in New York City.
March 2013

The Tallest Tree in the Forest premieres at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City.
February 2016

Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical premieres regionally at Olney Theater Center in Maryland.
September 2016

Moisés Kaufman was awarded the National Medal of Arts, presented to him by President Barack Obama.
June 2017

The Very Extraordinary Mr. Law is developed with the Colorado New Play Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO.
November 2017

Uncommon Sense premieres off-Broadway at The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New York City.
April 2018

“Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project’s Process of Devised Theater” was published by Random House Books.
May 2018

Beginning development of Here There Are Blueberries (formally known as The Album) with a workshop production with Miami New Drama.
October 2020

Tectonic and Miami New Drama live stream and share selected scenes from Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard.
January 2021

Produced by Tectonic and directed by Moisés Kaufman, a streamed presentation of Jon Robin Baitz’s Three Hotels starring two-time Emmy-winner Bobby Cannavale and Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei premieres to benefit BCEFA.
June 2021

Seven Deadly Sins opened in New York City’s Meatpacking district—the first large-scale production in the city following the COVID-19 shutdown.
January 2023

A stage adaptation of “Call My Name, Clemson” by Rhondda Thomas is developed with Tectonic using their method, Moment Work.
May 2023

Following its critically acclaimed, sold-out world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse, Tectonic's Here There Are Blueberries plays at Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.
October 2023

Las Aventuras at Juan Planchardhad its world premiere at Miami New Drama and was nominated for 12 Carbonell Awards
May 2024

Here There Are Blueberries made its off-Broadway premiere at New York Theatre Workshop and was named a 2024 Pulitzer-Prize Finalist
January 2025

Here There Are Blueberries opened its national tour at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ
Spring 2025

The national tour of Here There Are Blueberries continued at The Wallis in Beverley Hills and Berkeley Repertory Theatre
May 2025

Here There Are Blueberries received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Projection Design
Winter 25/26

The national tour of Here There Are Blueberries finished with engagements at Miami New Drama and Seattle Rep. The national tour reached over 55,000 audiences in five cities.
December 2025

The Laramie Project had a star-studded 25th Anniversary Performance at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre. Available for streaming on Audible, coming soon!
February 2026

Here There Are Blueberries made its UK premiere at Theatre Royal Stratford East

    
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LEADERSHIP & STAFF

FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and playwright, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Obama, Moisés Kaufman has led Tectonic Theater Project since its founding in 1991. Broadway credits include Paradise Square (10 Tony Award nominations), the revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, the revival of The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), and Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (Obie Award and Tony, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominations). West End: Gross Indecency, I Am My Own Wife, This Is How It Goes. Off-Broadway / Regional: Here There Are Blueberries (Tectonic Theater Project/La Jolla Playhouse), Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, Tectonic Theater Project/Madison Wells Live), One Arm by Tennessee Williams (Tectonic Theater Project/The New Group); The Laramie Project (writer/director; Theater in the Square, Drama Desk nomination); The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later(writer/director; Alice Tully Hall); Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (writer/director; Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and the Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction); Macbeth with Liev Schreiber (Delacorte Theater); Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Opera: El Gato Con Botas (New Victory Theater). Film/TV: The Laramie Project (HBO; two Emmy nominations for writing and directing, Opening Night Selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, National Board of Review Award, the Humanitas Prize); The L Word. Kaufman is the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project, a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting, and an Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award winner.

MOISÉS KAUFMAN

MATT JOSLYN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Matt Joslyn is an award-winning producer, arts administrator, and fundraiser who serves as Executive Director of Tectonic Theater Project. His producing credits include the world premiere, New York and London engagements, and national tour of Tectonic’s Here There Are Blueberries (Pulitzer Prize Finalist; Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play); Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk Award), an immersive production of seven world-premiere plays staged throughout New York City’s Meatpacking District; the world premiere of Moisés Kaufman’s adaptation of Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard; and the Off-Broadway premiere of Uncommon Sense. Matt is currently collaborating on new works by Doug Wright, Bess Wohl, Maggie Smith, Forrest Malloy, Rajiv Joseph, Leigh Fondakowski, and Stephen Belber. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and an MFA from the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House Professional Actor Training Program. He is also a graduate of the Leadership Development Institute at Eckerd College.