i.

about me

I make things—plays & screenplays; fiction & poetry & 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 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, prose fiction, 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.

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