JUSTIN HALLE is a QUEER, JEWY, and SOMETIMES FUNNY playwright who lives in NYC.

Their work has been developed and performed at theaters across NYC and the known and unknown universe. Justin’s play Vile Isle—a precocious and party-fueled dark comedy about Old Testament floods, the prejudices of gay men, and why DJs aren’t real musicians (sue me) (wait no don’t)—opened The Tank’s 2025 Core Season and was described by The New York Times’ Helen Shaw as “superb,” “horny,” and “goofy but also deeply moral.” Justin was a member of Page 73’s Writers Group, a finalist for P73’s Playwriting Fellowship, and is a graduate of Columbia’s Playwriting MFA under the mentorship of David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage.

UPCOMING: Justin’s play Saturn Return will be published by Bloomsbury / Methuen Drama in The Future is Short: Contemporary Short Plays for High School and College Students (September, 2026).

When Justin isn’t writing plays or rewriting his/their website blurb, they plays drums in a band called Boy Howdy! which is not, in fact, a country band.

Justin has a heterosexual brother who’s in law school and single and very polite and their Jewish mother did not tell Justin to include this.

@justin.a.halle