Justin's work has been seen or developed at: The New Group, Colt Coeur, Steep Theatre Co., The Brick, Dixon Place, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Brecht Forum, The 24-Hour Company, The New York International Fringe Festival, Farm Theater Projects, New York Theatre Workshop, The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, The Collectin, and the University of New Orleans. He is a member of Ars Nova’s 2014 Play Group and has been awarded residencies by MacDowell, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and Space on Ryder Farm, where he was a member of the inaugural Working Farm writers group. He has won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One Act Play Contest, and his short play An Autobiography About My Brother was published in UNO’s Bayou Magazine. Justin was a company member for The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, and he has been commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 2014 Humana Festival. Kuritzkes is a graduate of Brown University, where he earned his B.A. in both philosophy and literary arts and studied playwriting with Gregory Moss, Lisa D’Amour, and Erik Ehn. He is currently working on a new play and a screenplay. His latest play, The Sensuality Party, was produced by The New Group in the spring of 2016. Born in Los Angeles, he lives in New York.
Justin Kuritzkes
Studios
Irving Fine
Justin Kuritzkes worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…