Vince Gatton

Vince Gatton is a New York-based playwright and Drama Desk-nominated actor. His short play THE OKTAVIST was the winner of the inaugural Gary Garrison Playwriting Award, and was recently published by The Tusculum Review. BETTER was a winner of the 2018 Samuel French OOB Festival; JAM won Best Play in the 2015 LIC Short Play Festival at the Secret Theatre; and his full-length ALEXANDRIA won Sanguine Theatre Company’s Project Playwright Festival. Other shorts have appeared in Motolla Theatre Project’s annual Cherry Picking at the Wild Project in NYC, and he’s a three-time finalist for the National Playwriting Award from City Theatre in Miami. His full-length WAKE is published by Next Stage Press, and various shorts and monologues can be found in collections from Smith & Kraus and Applause...

Vince Gatton is a New York-based playwright and Drama Desk-nominated actor. His short play THE OKTAVIST was the winner of the inaugural Gary Garrison Playwriting Award, and was recently published by The Tusculum Review. BETTER was a winner of the 2018 Samuel French OOB Festival; JAM won Best Play in the 2015 LIC Short Play Festival at the Secret Theatre; and his full-length ALEXANDRIA won Sanguine Theatre Company’s Project Playwright Festival. Other shorts have appeared in Motolla Theatre Project’s annual Cherry Picking at the Wild Project in NYC, and he’s a three-time finalist for the National Playwriting Award from City Theatre in Miami. His full-length WAKE is published by Next Stage Press, and various shorts and monologues can be found in collections from Smith & Kraus and Applause Books. He received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play for David Johnston's Candy and Dorothy, and other notable acting credits include Leigh Fondakowski’s SPILL at Ensemble Studio Theatre; I Am My Own Wife and Fully Committed at Barrington Stage Company; I Am My Own Wife again at Coachella Valley Rep and Two Turns Theatre Company; and The Temperamentals at New World Stages, standing by for Michael Urie. He’s appeared on TV in BLUE BLOODS and LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME, and the upcoming ZERO DAY on Netflix. You can also catch him being himself on a certain rerun of Jeopardy, in the documentary Married & Counting, and as a guest bloviator on various podcasts.

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