BIO

Emily Oliveria, McLean Peterson, and Magda Cychowski in Cowgirl at Columbia University SOA, directed by Spencer Whale, photo by Amanda Whiteley.

 

Justin’s work has been presented or commissioned by Joe’s Pub, Exponential Festival, The Brick, Samuel French and Concord Theatricals, Red Bull Theater, the Lucille Lortel, La MaMa ETC, London’s Jermyn Street Theater, Playhouse on Park, the Middlebury Acting Company, Northwestern University’s Wirtz Center, NYU Tisch, and Columbia University.

Justin’s play Cowgirl was named a 2021 finalist for the Columbia @ Roundabout New Play Reading Series and a 2023 semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and their work has been published in Best of Red Bull Theater’s Short New Plays (Stage Rights Publishing, 2019) and WE/US: Monologues for the Gender Minority (Smith & Kraus, 2023). Most recently, Justin’s MFA thesis play, a gay-ass meditation on masculinity and the Old Testament called Vile Isle, was performed at Columbia University under the mentorship of Jen Silverman, David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage.