John Augustine he, him (writer actor director) plays have been produced in NYC at The Zipper, HERE, Naked Angels, Expanded Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Miranda Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and 59E59 Theaters.
His anthology of 20 short plays, Augustine’s Confessions, is published by www.playscrips.com Also published in the short play anthologies Take Ten, Best American Short Plays. His play PeopleSpeak (59E59 street Theatre) is published in Shorter, Faster, Funnier. The New York Times wrote of this play, “PeopleSpeak” (is) a witty and acerbic play that is the best of the Summer Shorts festival.” He and playwright, Willy Conley were commissioned to write OH! FIGARO! (National Theatre of the Deaf), Touring the United States. For television, Augustine wrote for the Fox TV show Titus and for Encore! Encore! with Nathan Lane and Joan Plowright. He has taught playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, The 42nd Street Collective, and Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. He is a Revson Fellow in Playwriting, and a member of WGA,The Dramatists Guild, SAG, AEA and SDC.
He has directed many short plays and readings all over the place. Including: the 2015 Off Broadway production of The Hummingbird’s Tour by Margaret Delaney, and David Lee White’s, Panther Hollow (NYC SOLO FEST).
NYC Acting credits include the original cast productions of Young Playwrights Festival at Playwrights Horizons, Mac Wellman’s satire on government censorship, Seven Blowjobs (Soho Rep) Heather McKutcheon’s A Walk On Lake Erie (HOME For Contemporary Theatre) Christopher Durang’s Naomi In The Living Room (Home) and (EST ) One-Act Marathon. (EST) Bill Russell’s Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens. (Ohio Theatre, Rapp Arts) He is half of “Dawne” in the satiric night- club act Chris Durang And Dawne, which has played at the Criterion Center, Caroline’s Comedy Club, Williamstown Summer Cabaret, and the Triad, winning a 1996 Bistro Award. For the Bucks County Playhouse, He was in Sondheim’s COMPANY directed by Hunter Foster and starring Justin Guarini. He performed a story about his DNA at ArtYard’s “crankie” Event. (a “crankie" is an old storytelling art form popular in the 19th century.) Ask him about it. “John Augustine's characters cling to language like alcoholics to a martini glass. Insecure, end- less verbalizing and very funny, they hope to assuage ambivalence with words; their dialogue tends less to the absurd than to a brittle epigrammatic gleam."
--The Village Voice
CONTACT:AugustineNYC@gmail.com