Ian August’s full-length plays include: and All the Emilies in All the Universes (PlayPenn 2022), Zero (2020 Ashland New Plays Festival, Semi-Finalist BAPF), Brisé (2019 Great Plains Theatre Conference, Finalist 2019 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), The Excavation of Mary Anning (Powerhouse Theatre Reading Series, 2018 Ashland New Plays Festival, DVRF New Playwright Program), Everything You Can Do (To Make the World a Better Place) (Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank @ UC Davis), Interviewese (Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Fest, Finalist 2018 New Comedy Fest B Street Theatre), The Goldilocks Zone, (Passage Theatre Company, Semi-Finalist 2015 O’Neill Conference), Donna Orbits the Moon (Tiny Dynamite Productions, NJ Repertory Company, Utah Contemporary Theatre; Barbour Memorial Playwright Award), Missing Celia Rose (NYC Summer Play Festival; Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s “Playfest″; Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society), and Cobbler (Finalist 2019 New Comedy Fest B Street Theatre). Mr. August’s YA play, Stay Safe, will premiere at the 74th Edinburgh International Fringe Festival in the summer of 2022. Other works have been published by Samuel French, Inc., Pipeline / Applause Books, and Smith and Kraus Publishing. Mr. August is a founding member of the Princeton-based playwriting collective, the Witherspoon Circle, a member of the ATG PlayLab, and a graduated member of PlayPenn’s playwriting workshop, The Foundry. He lives at a NJ boarding school with one husband and three cats, named Lentils, Kimchi, and Thomas.