About

Justine Gelfman is a Brooklyn-based playwright.

Her work has been developed or produced at Ars Nova, Williamstown Theatre Festival, IRT Theater, Theater Masters’ Take Ten, ESPA/Primary Stages, Dixon Place, The Story, Crashbox, Pete's Candy Store, New Women Space, New York Fringe Festival, UT Austin, Northwestern University, and Kenyon College. She has been a resident at Yaddo, Colt Coeur, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Slough Farm, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Vineyard Arts Project, and Kenyon Playwrights Conference. Justine is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and her writing has been published by Concord Theatricals.

Her plays include In Sisters We Trust or My Fucked Up American Girl Doll Play, (2019/20 DVRF Playwrights Program Winner, 2023 Kennedy Center NAPAT Award finalist, 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival finalist, 2020 Leah Ryan’s FEWW Prize finalist, 2020 New Harmony Project finalist, Playwrights Realm's 2020 Scratchpad Series semi-finalist, 2021 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center semi-finalist), The Galas, (Ars Nova), The Love Object, (The Story Theatre, 2024 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center semi-finalist), The Technicians, (2019 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference finalist, 2019 Blue Ink Playwriting Award finalist, 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, 2019 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center semi-finalist), Doormat, (2021 Theater Masters’ Take Ten MFA Festival), and The Thing That Never Happened, (FringeFAVE at the New York Fringe Festival).

Justine was the assistant to writer/director, Annie Baker on her A24 film, Janet Planet. MFA: The University of Texas at Austin. BA: Northwestern University.