SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA

by MJ Kaufman DRAMA

When his father falls ill, Archer (still Angela to his family) doesn’t want to move back to his childhood home. 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.

“MJ Kaufman’s play…is note-perfect in showing how often people talk past each other, speaking only of their own desires…without ever truly listening.”—Chicago Reader

Sensitive Guys

by MJ Kaufman

DRAMATIC COMEDY

5 ACTORS, ALL WOMEN OR GENDER NON-CONFORMING

Will is a freshman at college. Jordan is a senior film major. Tyler is writing a novel for his thesis. They are members of the Men’s Peer Education group. At meetings they unpack questions like: “What is male privilege? And what can we do about it?” They love each other and the group. Until accusatory posters appear on campus suggesting a member of the group committed sexual assault. Could it be that even sensitive guys working on their privilege sometimes turn violent?

MJ Kaufman is a playwright and TV writer from Portland, OR. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Williamstown Theatre Festival, InterAct Theatre and others, and developed by the Lark Play Development Center, the Playwrights Realm, Page73 and NYTW among others. Awards: Helen Merrill Emerging Writers Award, ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting, and Jane Chambers Prize in Feminist Theatre.