Jeff Kaufman directed, produced, & wrote the Emmy-nominated American Masters documentary about playwright Terrence McNally, EVERY ACT OF LIFE (with Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury, Nathan Lane, Chita Rivera, Billy Porter, and others), and the Critics’ Choice-nominated documentary about Iranian human rights activist and political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh (narrated by Olivia Colman), NASRIN. His other films include THE STATE OF MARRIAGE (about the unsung women who launched the marriage equality movement), FATHER JOSEPH (about a Haitian priest who fights for women’s empowerment), and THE SAVOY KING (about Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom and the discovery of Ella Fitzgerald, with John Legend, Janet Jackson, Billy Crystal, and Jeff Goldblum), plus short documentaries with Time Magazine and Amnesty International. Kaufman’s play FIRST AID was a winner of the 2024 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival. Since Covid, he’s written several other full-length and short plays. 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.