AJ Clauss is a playwright spawned screenwriter from the borderlands of Kentuckiana. A recent graduate of the Obie-award winning playwriting fellowship Youngblood with Ensemble Studio Theatre, a New Voices fellow at Playwrights Horizons, two-time O’Neill Theatre Festival semi-finalist, and two-time recipient of the Sloan Foundation for both theatre & television-- AJ’s work often explores queer intimacy, rancid humor, and the absurd rituals we find to survive. AJ is currently finishing his debut novel Numbskull, a selection of short stories,  & developing multiple projects for stage & screen. MFA Columbia.