Children and Art

FULL LENGTH: When art collector Gwendolyn Luce approaches artist Elaine Lee for her latest work, sight unseen, she never imagined what would be delivered to her Soho gallery: a twelve-year old girl named “Untitled.” Untitled introduces herself as the “future of art”--but as Gwendolyn prepares herself for the debut of the century, her own daughter, Meg, realizes she has to liberate this child--and quickly. And it...

FULL LENGTH: When art collector Gwendolyn Luce approaches artist Elaine Lee for her latest work, sight unseen, she never imagined what would be delivered to her Soho gallery: a twelve-year old girl named “Untitled.” Untitled introduces herself as the “future of art”--but as Gwendolyn prepares herself for the debut of the century, her own daughter, Meg, realizes she has to liberate this child--and quickly. And it’s not long before Elaine, herself, realizes she may have given away the one piece of work that meant anything to her at all.  Children and Art is a dark comedy about the responsibility artists have to their art, that mothers have to their daughters, and how much of our children we actually own, anyway.

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  • Premiere Stages at Kean University: Children and Art

    Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize Children and Art by Ian August as a Semi-Finalist for the 2026 Premiere Play Festival. The play rose through a competitive selection process to become one of 65 Semi-Finalists out of 894 submissions. Our panel admired the piece’s themes and questions regarding the use of people as commodities, the nature of art, and the act of parenting. Our congratulations and thanks to Ian.

    Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize Children and Art by Ian August as a Semi-Finalist for the 2026 Premiere Play Festival. The play rose through a competitive selection process to become one of 65 Semi-Finalists out of 894 submissions. Our panel admired the piece’s themes and questions regarding the use of people as commodities, the nature of art, and the act of parenting. Our congratulations and thanks to Ian.

GWENDOLYN – 50s, The Aesthete
ELAINE – early 40s, The Artist
HANNAH – early 40s, The Agent
MEG – 21, The Academic
UNTITLED – 11, The Art

All characters are women identifying characters.