Jeff Kaufman

About Jeff Kaufman

Jeff Kaufman directed, produced, and wrote the Emmy-nominated American Masters’ documentary “Terrence McNally: Every Act Of Life” (with Angela Lansbury, Meryl Streep, Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski, Chita Rivera, and Billy Porter); the Critic’s Choice-nominated “Nasrin” (narrated by Olivia Colman) about Iranian human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh; and “The Savoy King” (with John Legend, Billy Crystal, Jeff Goldblum, and Tyne Daly), plus short films for Amnesty International and Time Magazine. He also contributed cartoons to The New Yorker and illustrations to The Los Angeles Times, wrote for The Washington Post, CNN, and Ms. Magazine, hosted an Associated Press Award-winning daily radio talk show in Vermont, and exhibited paintings in several Los Angeles galleries. In 2023, he organized a global women’s rights campaign with Amnesty International, PEN America, RFK Human Rights, MS. Magazine, The Feminist Majority Foundation, Right Livliehood, and others.

Since Covid, he has written three plays, including “First Aid,” which was a winner of the 2024 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival. His pilot script, “Eden Street,” about the birth of Off-Broadway in early 1950s Greenwich Village, was a Scriptation finalist.

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