Lawrenceville, NJ

Ian August

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Ian August


Ian August is an award-winning, internationally-produced playwright. His plays include: D.Q.M. or Drag Queen Magic (2025, Local Theatre Company, Durango PlayFest), All the Emilies in All the Universes (GPTC 2024, Winner, Capital Rep 2024 Next Act New Play Summit Winner, PlayPenn 2022), Zero (Winner, 2020 Ashland New Plays Festival; Semi-Finalist 2020 BAPF), Everything You Can Do (to Make the World a Better Place) (Selection, Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank 2020; Semi-Finalist Blue Ink Playwriting Prize), The Excavation of Mary Anning (Selection, 2019 Powerhouse Theater with NYSAF / Vassar; 2018 Ashland New Plays Festival; 2018 DVRF New Playwright Program), Brisé (Selection, 2019 Great Plains Theatre Conference; Finalist, 2019 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; Finalist, 2020 Lark Playwrights Week), Donna Orbits the Moon (Scripps Ranch Theatre; Tiny Dynamite Productions; NJ Repertory Company; Utah Contemporary Theatre), Interviewese (Winner, Garry Marshall Theatre New Works; Finalist, B Street Theatre New Comedy Fest), The Goldilocks Zone, (Passage Theatre Company; Semi-Finalist, 2015 O’Neill Conference), and Missing Celia Rose (NYC Summer Play Festival; Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s “Playfest 2009″; Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society). Mr. August’s newest YA plays, Stay Safe!, and Parker and the City in the Sea premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and are published by Uproar Theatrics. His new YA play, Imogen Up the Mountain, will debut at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival . He is a founding member of the American Theatre Group’s Playwrights Lab, and a graduated member of PlayPenn’s playwriting lab, The Foundry. Several of Mr. August’s plays have been published by Sam French Inc., Smith and Kraus, and Pipeline / Applause Books. He was a 2019 Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas, and a recipient of a 2021 Independent Artist Fellowship from the NJ Council for the Arts. Mr. August lives at a boarding school with one husband and three cats: Kimchi, Clementine, and Thomas'. He is represented by the Gurman Agency LLC, NYC.

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Susan Gurman, Gurman Agency LLC,


14 Penn Plaza, Suite 1703, New York, NY 10122-1701, Tel: 212 749 4618, Email: susan@gurmanagency.com

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