Justin Elizabeth Sayre

Justin Elizabeth Sayre is an award-winning playwright and performer whom Michael Musto called, “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” A fixture of downtown cabaret, Sayre is the writer and creator of The Meeting of the International Order of Sodomites (Bistro Award winner and two MAC nominations), New York’s longest-running LGBTQ variety show. As a playwright, Sayre’s work has appeared at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Wild Project, Celebration Theatre, Dynasty Typewriter and La MaMa Experimental Theatre. Sayre most recently became director/mentor of La MaMa’s Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship. Sayre has written a series of YA novels, Husky, Pretty, and Mean, released by Penguin Books, and From Gay to Z: A Compendium of Queer Culture from Chronicle Books. Sayre has written for television, working with Michael Patrick King on his hit CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls and Fox’s The Cool Kids. Sayre also appeared on HBO’s The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow. They are an NYCLU artist ambassador and a 2023 MacDowell Fellow. @justinelizabethsayre