Straton Rushing
Straton Rushing is a dramatic writer originally from Sonora, Texas.
In 2022 he was the recipient of the Bela Kiralyfalvi Playwriting Award, the Hear Me Out Monologue Festival's Golden Ear Award, and he received an Honorable Mention from the William Faulkner Literary Competition.
His plays have been featured with Phoenix Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Arts Fort...
Straton Rushing is a dramatic writer originally from Sonora, Texas.
In 2022 he was the recipient of the Bela Kiralyfalvi Playwriting Award, the Hear Me Out Monologue Festival's Golden Ear Award, and he received an Honorable Mention from the William Faulkner Literary Competition.
His plays have been featured with Phoenix Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Arts Fort Worth, Orpheus Theatre Company, SceneShop, the University of Houston, the Savannah College of Art & Design, Scribe Stages, TheatreWorks New Milford, Focal Theatre Lab, Crafton Hills College, Festival De La Bête Noire and other companies around the US and internationally. His work in radio theatre has appeared on the Theatrically Speaking, Garden of Voices and Between Acts podcasts.
Recent publications include plays in the Silk Road Review, Apricity Magazine, Nine Cloud Journal, the Ponder Review and with Smith & Kraus.
Among several other teaching gigs, he is currently a teaching artist at the Mesa Arts Center.
He holds undergraduate degrees in Theatre and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is currently an MFA Dramatic Writing candidate at Arizona State University. Straton is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
For more info, visit StratonThePlaywright.com
Production inquiries StratonRushing@gmail.com