Anton Sattler

Anton Sattler is a combat-decorated Marine Corps vetaran and new playwright based in Queens, NY. His second play, Local Gods, won the 2020 Bridge Award from Arts in the Armed Forces. Sattler’s first play, The Borough, was a semifinalist for the Bridge Award and the Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award in 2018.

Anton grew up in Monroeville, PA. He studied film and fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh and was the first student to win both the Taube and Montgomery Culver awards for a trilogy of short stories in 2002. After graduating In 2002, he served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, deploying twice to Iraq with Third Battalion, Seventh Marines. After leaving active duty, Anton produced the critically-acclaimed Korean War documentary CHOSIN, among...

Anton Sattler is a combat-decorated Marine Corps vetaran and new playwright based in Queens, NY. His second play, Local Gods, won the 2020 Bridge Award from Arts in the Armed Forces. Sattler’s first play, The Borough, was a semifinalist for the Bridge Award and the Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award in 2018.

Anton grew up in Monroeville, PA. He studied film and fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh and was the first student to win both the Taube and Montgomery Culver awards for a trilogy of short stories in 2002. After graduating In 2002, he served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, deploying twice to Iraq with Third Battalion, Seventh Marines. After leaving active duty, Anton produced the critically-acclaimed Korean War documentary CHOSIN, among other film, TV, and digital projects. He now works in the tech and media space in New York City in order to fund his writing habit. Anton lives with his wife Jacqueline Kittivarakul in Forest Hills, Queens.

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Scripts

Local Gods

by Anton Sattler

Cast Size
8—11
Genre
drama

When longtime military police officer Miriam abruptly quits the Army after four tours in Iraq, she throws everything she has into making a fresh start at home. But as she and her husband Damon attempt to reintegrate into civilian life, revisiting her old haunts and old friends, home feels like unfamiliar territory. Miriam struggles to reconcile her new self with her old one--and to reconcile her conscience with...

When longtime military police officer Miriam abruptly quits the Army after four tours in Iraq, she throws everything she has into making a fresh start at home. But as she and her husband Damon attempt to reintegrate into civilian life, revisiting her old haunts and old friends, home feels like unfamiliar territory. Miriam struggles to reconcile her new self with her old one--and to reconcile her conscience with the regrets she has left behind overseas. Suspicious of her brother-in-law's treatment of his daughter Kaitlyn, haunted by decisions she made as an officer, and conflicted about the moral seas still raging inside her, Miriam tries to move forward--but finds that the past is ever present. Unfolding in tandem with flashbacks of memories, emails, and imaginings that won't let Miriam go, Local Gods is a portrait of an American family struggling to connect after experiencing a decade of moral trauma, both personal and political.

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