Gage Tarlton is a playwright and multimedia artist from North Carolina, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His writing interrogates content and form through complex stories about queerness, sex, and internet culture.
His work has been developed with Arterial Projects, La MaMa ETC, Victory Gardens Theater, The Kennedy Center, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Queen City New Play Initiative, and Barter Theatre. His transmedia play xXPonyBoyDerekXX, executive produced by John Cameron Mitchell, ran on OnlyFans/X in 2023. He has been a finalist for the UCross + The Blank Theatre’s Future of Playwriting Prize (2022), a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow (2019), a finalist (2023) and two-time semifinalist (2024, 2020) for The O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference, and semifinalist for the New...
Gage Tarlton is a playwright and multimedia artist from North Carolina, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His writing interrogates content and form through complex stories about queerness, sex, and internet culture.
His work has been developed with Arterial Projects, La MaMa ETC, Victory Gardens Theater, The Kennedy Center, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Queen City New Play Initiative, and Barter Theatre. His transmedia play xXPonyBoyDerekXX, executive produced by John Cameron Mitchell, ran on OnlyFans/X in 2023. He has been a finalist for the UCross + The Blank Theatre’s Future of Playwriting Prize (2022), a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow (2019), a finalist (2023) and two-time semifinalist (2024, 2020) for The O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference, and semifinalist for the New Dramatists' Princess Grace Award (2023), amongst other achievements.
He received a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Represented by Farrah Cukor at United Talent Agency.