Artistic Advisory Board
Moisés Kaufman (Chair) is an award-winning writer and director. His plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project have been among the most honored and most widely performed plays in America over the last decade. His top credits include the Pulitzer and Tony award winning play I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright (Obie award for direction, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic's Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations) and the film adaptation of The Laramie Project on HBO (Emmy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writer). Other directing credits include 33 Variations (Arena Stage), MacBeth (Shakespeare in the Park), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Williamstown Theater Festival),This is How it Goes (Donmar Warehouse), Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Rep), Tennessee Williams’ One Arm (Steppenwolf), Women in Beckett, Machinal, In the Winter of Cities and The Nest. He is the recipient of the Joe A. Callaway Award for Directing and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting. Mr. Kaufman is the founder and Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project.
David Anzuelo is a Chicano actor/director from El Paso, Texas. He is a long time member of Labyrinth Theater Co. and an associate artist at INTAR. Theater acting credits: Points of Departure (INTAR); Knives and Other Sharp Objects, Intringulis, Dreaming in Tongues (LAByrinth); Santos & Santos (Imua); September Shoes (Geva); Richard Schechner's Hamlet; Stand-Tragedy (Joseph Jefferson Award at Apple Tree Theater); Peter Sellars' Merchant of Venice. Anzuelo has also created 14 original interdisciplinary theater pieces. Estrellita Luminaria; Agua Aceite; Aire Arena; Camino Montana (all for INTAR) Queen Latina & the Power Posse vs the Evils of Society : 7 episodes: a comic book for the stage (Labyrinth Theater Co.). Fist (for HERE); Grasshopper (George Street Playhouse); Killing/Play (24 hour plays at Atlantic Theater Co.). Anzuelo's work always has a strong influence from both Eastern and Western theater traditions and incorporates several modalities of movement styles including martial arts, dance, gymnastics and stage combat. He has a 2nd degree black belt in Taekwondo, has received two Mex-Am Foundation grants and a 2005 Alan Schneider Award for directing nomination.
Jesse Berger As founding artistic director of Red Bull Theater in New York, Jesse Berger has adapted and directed productions of Pericles, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Edward the Second, Women Beware Women and The Duchess of Malfi. All five productions received critically-acclaimed extended Off Broadway runs. Jesse’s adaptations of The Revenger’s Tragedy and Women Beware Women are published by Dramatists Play Service. He continues to produce an eclectic variety of classical and contemporary work, including the OBIE Award-Winning “Revelation Reading” Series. Jesse has also directed in New York and across the country at such theaters as Denver Center Theatre Company (Richard III) The Old Globe (Othello), Pittsburgh Public Theatre (The Laramie Project, I Am My Own Wife, Life X 3, A Number), New York Theater Workshop, SoHo Rep, Theaterworks, the Pearl, Urban Stages, Dorset Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab, Theatre J, the Utah, Arizona, Hamptons, and St. Louis Shakespeare Festivals, the Asolo Theatre Company, Washington Shakespeare Company (Marat/Sade), among others. Jesse has also helped develop new plays at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and the Playwright’s Center, and he received a Helen Hayes Award for his direction of Marat/Sade.
Jeffrey LaHoste is the co-founder of the award-winning Tectonic Theater Project, for which he has produced many plays, including the The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. LaHoste was nominated for an Emmy Award as co-author of the HBO film The Laramie Project, which received 3 other nominations, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. The film won the National Board of Review Award, the Humanitas Prize and the GLAAD Media Award. It was the opening night selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was presented at the Deauville and Berlin Film Festivals.
