Gage Tarlton is a playwright from North Carolina, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His work interrogates the complexities of queerness, memory, sexuality, internet culture, and hope in the midst of desolation.
His work has been developed with Arterial Projects, The Queer Ensemble, 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 was a finalist for Rattlestick Theater's Terrence McNally Incubator Program (2024), 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...
Gage Tarlton is a playwright from North Carolina, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His work interrogates the complexities of queerness, memory, sexuality, internet culture, and hope in the midst of desolation.
His work has been developed with Arterial Projects, The Queer Ensemble, 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 was a finalist for Rattlestick Theater's Terrence McNally Incubator Program (2024), 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, a finalist for the Neukom Institute's Literary Award for Playwriting (2023), and a 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.