"I make theater to exalt weirdos and queerdos, to magnify Presence, Deep Care, and the kind of Delight that sneaks up on you when a fairy god-donkey inspires you to listen to The Voice that Likes You. My work treats absurdity as hallowed and sees hysteria, wigs, and the occasional awkward twerk as sacred tools for transformation. I channel visions of America’s fringes where the Divine Feminine flirts with tumbleweeds, enlightened horses spark awakening with their eyes, and trauma and grace share a campfire, discussing how salvation smells faintly of hairspray.

I’m always hunting for the absurd break in the real—that moment when the world’s seams split just enough to let something truer, weirder, or more ecstatic shine through. It shapes the worlds I create and ensures that even the most surreal moments feel rooted in something deeply human.”

My plays have been developed or produced in abandoned houses, churches and open fields as well as The Mercury Store, The Lark, Theaterlab, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Dixon Place, Stratford New Works Lab, the Sewanee Conference, Piano Fight, Figment Arts Festival on Governors Island, Yale Cabaret, Moving Parts, Paris; and libretti at BRIC Arts Media, Prospect Theater, Musical Theater Factory, Norfolk Music Festival and the Théâtre de Ménilmontant, Paris. Justin’s translations from French include The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco. His essays on theater have been published in American Theater Magazine, Howlround, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Justin was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Conference and the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Theater Bay Area, JM Kaplan Fund and the Dramatist Guild. His work has been a finalist for the Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Playwright’s Realm Fellowship, Jerome NYC Fellowship, Play Penn, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the New Harmony Project. He has held teaching artist positions at Wesleyan and Yale, among others. MA in opera dramaturgy from the Sorbonne in Paris and MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.