August Hakvaag

August Hakvaag (they/them) is a butch theatre artist currently based in Philadelphia, PA. They received a BA in Theatre, Concentration in Acting, and are currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies from Temple University. They were a Princess Grace Fellowship Award semi-finalist, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee, and is a proud member of the Ring of Keys Collective. They have worked internationally as an actor, director, and playwright. Highlights include working with Moxie Arts NY, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, The Twenty Sided Tavern, Richmond Triangle Players, Theatre Exile, Tokyo International Players, and Aporia Artists Collective, of which they are a founding member. When they aren't immersed in theater, they're probably playing TTRPGS...

August Hakvaag (they/them) is a butch theatre artist currently based in Philadelphia, PA. They received a BA in Theatre, Concentration in Acting, and are currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies from Temple University. They were a Princess Grace Fellowship Award semi-finalist, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee, and is a proud member of the Ring of Keys Collective. They have worked internationally as an actor, director, and playwright. Highlights include working with Moxie Arts NY, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, The Twenty Sided Tavern, Richmond Triangle Players, Theatre Exile, Tokyo International Players, and Aporia Artists Collective, of which they are a founding member. When they aren't immersed in theater, they're probably playing TTRPGS.

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Scripts

The Superconductor

by August Hakvaag

Synopsis

In the Leon H. Cooper Theoretical Physics lab, three things are happening:
A team of physicists have been working doggedly for years towards proving the existence of room-temperature superconductivity,
One of their senior researchers is in the hospital after a serious workplace accident,
And today they’re voting on whether or not to unionize.
A real-time play about finding radical hope on the second-worst day of...

In the Leon H. Cooper Theoretical Physics lab, three things are happening:
A team of physicists have been working doggedly for years towards proving the existence of room-temperature superconductivity,
One of their senior researchers is in the hospital after a serious workplace accident,
And today they’re voting on whether or not to unionize.
A real-time play about finding radical hope on the second-worst day of your life, The Superconductor asks what work we’re willing to do for progress.

As I Was, Not As I Am

by August Hakvaag

Synopsis

Laurel is sick. Her roommates want her to get better. How do you help someone who can't afford health care? Does it involve setting a car on fire? As I Was, Not As I Am is mainly about queer roommates, headaches, clubbing, upstairs neighbors, arson, and washing machines; but it's also about love: the kind that would make you do anything for each other.

Contact for full scripts and rights: august.hakvaag@gmail...

Laurel is sick. Her roommates want her to get better. How do you help someone who can't afford health care? Does it involve setting a car on fire? As I Was, Not As I Am is mainly about queer roommates, headaches, clubbing, upstairs neighbors, arson, and washing machines; but it's also about love: the kind that would make you do anything for each other.

Contact for full scripts and rights: [email protected]

Acute Exposure

by August Hakvaag

Synopsis

Dell has a mission, and Mara is along for the ride: to tell the people of the far-flung future that there is a dangerous store of nuclear waste hidden below the ground. But how do you craft a message so universal any culture could understand? How do two young queer people navigate finding themselves, and finding themselves after something has changed them? Are we even talking about waste anymore? Sparks fly- and...

Dell has a mission, and Mara is along for the ride: to tell the people of the far-flung future that there is a dangerous store of nuclear waste hidden below the ground. But how do you craft a message so universal any culture could understand? How do two young queer people navigate finding themselves, and finding themselves after something has changed them? Are we even talking about waste anymore? Sparks fly- and energy radiates- in this new play about a continuous problem.

For full script and performance rights, contact [email protected]

But Not Uncle Vanya

by August Hakvaag

Synopsis

Uncle Vanya, without... Uncle Vanya. You know, the interesting parts of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, it’s just, those parts just happen to not have the character Uncle Vanya in them. Astrov is doing his best helming a rewrite of the play, with only Sonia and Yelena by his side. As Astrov tries to wrestle the story to his control and Sonia tries to keep her world together, Yelena starts to wonder if she could also make...

Uncle Vanya, without... Uncle Vanya. You know, the interesting parts of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, it’s just, those parts just happen to not have the character Uncle Vanya in them. Astrov is doing his best helming a rewrite of the play, with only Sonia and Yelena by his side. As Astrov tries to wrestle the story to his control and Sonia tries to keep her world together, Yelena starts to wonder if she could also make changes. Maybe even remove herself entirely.

The Lion Is Out

by August Hakvaag

Synopsis

Olive just wants a nice night with Reese. Benji just wants to use the lucky cup to save a lion. Taijiri just wants to roar. A short play about asking for what you want.

Olive just wants a nice night with Reese. Benji just wants to use the lucky cup to save a lion. Taijiri just wants to roar. A short play about asking for what you want.

Atrytone

by August Hakvaag

Synopsis

Athena came out of a headache, but now she has one of her own. How does the goddess of wisdom deal with pain? And why won't anyone believe (in) her?

Athena came out of a headache, but now she has one of her own. How does the goddess of wisdom deal with pain? And why won't anyone believe (in) her?