WELCOME

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Laramie Project premieres at The Denver Center Theater Company.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.