August Croft

August Croft

August (they/them) is a freelance writer based in Oregon. With a keen focus on the occult and Pacific Northwest history, their work has been featured with Theatre Vertigo as well as Portland's Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. They have performed with Bag&Baggage Productions, Pulp Stage, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. When not writing content for a variety of clients, you can find them...
August (they/them) is a freelance writer based in Oregon. With a keen focus on the occult and Pacific Northwest history, their work has been featured with Theatre Vertigo as well as Portland's Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. They have performed with Bag&Baggage Productions, Pulp Stage, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. When not writing content for a variety of clients, you can find them camping along the Oregon coast with their high school sweetheart, or in their home kitchen, perfecting recipes in a gleaming cast iron skillet.

Plays

  • Anypl(ace) by August Croft
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: asexuality, Non-Binary + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: asexuality, Non-Binary, teenagers, happy endings for queer kids, LGBTQ, change of seasons
    Ace is asexual. Archie is non-binary. Both are seniors in high school navigating their final year together before college. Through a lakeside cabin, lucid dreams, serious heart surgery, and blue Slurpees, Ace and Archie learn what it means to grow up and grow apart, as well as what it takes to stay together in a world still trying to understand them.
  • This Gray House by August Croft
    Recommendations: 1
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    4
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Depression, Pacific Northwest + 5 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, period, tragedy
    Keyword: Depression, Pacific Northwest, lighthouse keepers, North Head Lighthouse, Mental Health, suicide, women's history
    Mary and Alexander Pesonen tend to the North Head Lighthouse. 25 years of marriage and lightkeeping on these windy cliffs has shaped them, carved away at Mary Pesonen in particular. Told from multiple perspectives, we learn of Mary’s struggle with depression, her journey to get help, and how it all fell apart one June morning. This Gray House tells the true story of the Pesonens and what it means to be a...
    Mary and Alexander Pesonen tend to the North Head Lighthouse. 25 years of marriage and lightkeeping on these windy cliffs has shaped them, carved away at Mary Pesonen in particular. Told from multiple perspectives, we learn of Mary’s struggle with depression, her journey to get help, and how it all fell apart one June morning. This Gray House tells the true story of the Pesonens and what it means to be a lightkeeper; a story of chronic depression in women and how little we understand even now.
  • The Boys of Terrible Tilly by August Croft
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: lighthouse, Pacific Northwest + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, docudrama/historic, experimental, immersive, period
    Keyword: lighthouse, Pacific Northwest, History, Oregon coast, crew, 1930s, Pacific Ocean
    The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse and its keepers live and breathe salt. There is nothing but ocean surrounding, nothing but stories over their shoulders of keepers going mad. Henry Jenkins just wants a radio show. William Hill just wants to keep his crew together. And the rest hope to survive the biggest Pacific storm of the 1930’s. A (not entirely accurate) reenactment of Pacific Northwest history, reimagined...
    The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse and its keepers live and breathe salt. There is nothing but ocean surrounding, nothing but stories over their shoulders of keepers going mad. Henry Jenkins just wants a radio show. William Hill just wants to keep his crew together. And the rest hope to survive the biggest Pacific storm of the 1930’s. A (not entirely accurate) reenactment of Pacific Northwest history, reimagined with an entirely female-identifying cast.
  • Who Goes Home by August Croft
    Recommendations: 1
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    3
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 3 more
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    Keyword: demons, exorcism + 6 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy, horror, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: demons, exorcism, friendship, possession, school, CS Lewis, suicide, LGBTQ
    Gramercy disappears when she makes a deal with a demon, leaving her exorcism training and her two closest friends behind. Cardwell and Loveless, estranged exorcism partners since Gramercy's disappearance, team up again to find their friend and rid her of her demon once and for all. A supernatural take on friendship, loss, longing, and how we can continue living when we know our demons will never quite be rid of us.
  • Sable and the Forest by August Croft
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 10 more
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    Keyword: doomed heroes, growing up + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, horror, immersive, movement/physical, period, science fiction, tragedy, young audiences
    Keyword: doomed heroes, growing up, Non-Binary, gods, Greek tragedy, Greek chorus, friends
    The Oaken begin as children chosen to speak for the forest, the god and protector of the village. Sable grows up with this all-powerful being, learning quickly that ruling is infectious. Sable’s journey spans years, from youth to corrupted young adulthood. It begs the question: when we are destined for greatness, may we ever be enough?