Colby A. Poston is an Armenian-American playwright born and raised in Florence, South Carolina. He has written several pieces with staged readings and productions in South Carolina, Colorado, and London—one of them being Catching Icarus, which received a full production at the FMU PAC in Florence, SC, in January 2020. It was then revised and staged again in June 2022 for The Denver Fringe Festival. In addition to Icarus, many of his other works explore themes of mental illness, addiction, inherited trauma, white fragility, interracial friendship, and religion—all set within the context of the modern American South.
Poston’s writing often focuses on hyper-realistic human interaction, showcasing the beauty in the simplicity or mundaneness of human relationships. While these moments are...
Colby A. Poston is an Armenian-American playwright born and raised in Florence, South Carolina. He has written several pieces with staged readings and productions in South Carolina, Colorado, and London—one of them being Catching Icarus, which received a full production at the FMU PAC in Florence, SC, in January 2020. It was then revised and staged again in June 2022 for The Denver Fringe Festival. In addition to Icarus, many of his other works explore themes of mental illness, addiction, inherited trauma, white fragility, interracial friendship, and religion—all set within the context of the modern American South.
Poston’s writing often focuses on hyper-realistic human interaction, showcasing the beauty in the simplicity or mundaneness of human relationships. While these moments are seldom memorialized in real time, an audience’s collective witness of these experiences, recaptured on stage, can solidify these moments of raw emotion. In this way, his work illustrates the weight that these seemingly dull and vague moments can carry. Poston holds a BA in Theatre with a concentration in playwriting from Colorado College and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.