i.

about me

I make things—plays & screenplays; music; collages & cartoons & photographs. I grew up outside Boston where I cut my teeth writing dialogues in seventh-grade Spanish. At seventeen, my first play, Making the Move, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. At eighteen, I became Playwright in Residence at the Mark Twain House & Museum. (For more about my work at the Twain House, see Michael Schulman’s generous write-up in The New Yorker; or, for a more embarrassing read, see Nicky Woolf’s profile from The Guardian—an article originally entitled “Noah Altshuler: ‘I don't see people my age, pretty much lol ever.’” My fault. I did say that.*) In college, I studied English, History, and Music on purpose and Medieval Studies by accident. I currently work in New York and Los Angeles in theater, film, and visual art.

ii.

about Play By Play

In the fall of 2020, David Mazouz, Matthieu Lange, and I launched Play By Play, a screen arts program offering pay-what-you-can workshops on screenwriting, acting, and directing in support of community-based non-profits. After a year of weekly workshops, we transitioned to a program of masterclasses, each featuring a special guest (e.g. director Jimmy Giannopoulos & actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and supporting a charity of that guest’s choice.

* to quote Hannibal Buress, “You know what? I take the blame for that. I said that on the record.”