JUSTIN HALLE

Justin’s work has been developed by companies including La Mama, Concord Theatricals’ OOB Festival at The Vineyard, the Exponential Festival, Prototype Festival, The Brick, Playhouse on Park, Middlebury Acting Company, Red Bull Theater at the Lucille Lortel, and Joe’s Pub. Justin is a current semi-finalist for La Mama’s Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship. They were a 2025 Finalist for Page 73’s Fellowship, a member of Page 73’s Writers Group, and their play VILE ISLE opened The Tank’s 2024-2025 season. Justin’s play COWGIRL was a semifinalist for both the Princess Grace Award and the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator at Rattlestick, as well as a finalist for the Columbia@Roundabout New Play Award. Their playwriting has been published in Best of Red Bull Theater’s Short New Plays (“Delaware, Come Home”) and WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Actors (“Judy New Year!”). Justin has developed new operas with companies that include The Why Collective and the Cincinnati Opera, including directing TRANSPORT at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2025. Justin is a graduate of NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing and, in 2023, received their MFA from Columbia under the mentorship of Jen Silverman, David Henry Hwang, and Lynn Nottage.