Gil Kofman was born in Nigeria and raised in Kenya, Israel, and NYC. He studied physics at Cornell before attending NYU Graduate Film School, and later receiving an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
His play American Magic, a dark political satire, was produced in NY, LA, and London with music by Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth and Richard Foreman playing the part of the President.It was later published by Broadway Play Publishing along with two other plays, Interview and Pharmacopeia.
Kofman has also published short fiction in Gordon Lish's The Quarterly and helped produce, edit, and shoot the Sundance documentary, DERRIDA. His film, THE MEMORY THIEF, won the Feature Award at the Edmonton Int'l Film Festival and played on the Sundance Channel.
He later directed and edited a feature thriller in mainland China, called, Case Sensitive, which was developed at the Sundance Producer's Lab and got a wide release in China, June 2011, and played on HBO Asia.
