August Schulenburg

Artistic Director
Founding Member

As a playwright, Gus has written:

Carrin Beginning

Produced for an extended run at the Chelsea Playhouse, the NY Times Online called it “a pleasing palliative”. Backstage wrote “Absolutely delicious…there’s passion, conflict, and moments of poetic insight”. “The power of Schulenburg’s vision makes for an unique, unforgettable experience”, said CL Online. The Irish Times called it “entertaining and thought provoking”. “It’s Jesus Christ Superstar all over again, this time with a regional Irish twist and a dash of James Joyce; Schulenburg’s efforts here are worth a look” wrote Theatre Reviews Limited. The New Leader said, “The star of this production remains the playwright, who has not only composed dialogue worth speaking, but songs worth hearing.”

Riding the Bull

Produced at Theater for the New City with the Flux Theatre Ensemble, where nytheatre.com called it “a charming and unconventional look at the nature and definition of belief” and Theater2K wrote “Riding the Bull creates its own Faulknerian ‘postage stamp of land’ and makes the odd lives lived there seem possible, in all the hope and damnation our very real places give birth to every day”. It was workshopped at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and read at the Azuka Theatre Collective and the New Play House, as well as a finalist for the Reva Shiner and runner-up for the Clauder Competitions, and was published by The New York Theatre Review.

Rue

Produced at Theater for the New City with the Flux Theatre Ensemble, where Theatre2K wrote “Schulenburg is a very gifted writer and Rue is another example of the depth of his imagination and his tremendous versatility. In this homage to Shakespearean comedy, he has written a play that is at both profoundly comic and comically profound.”

Kidding Jane

Workshopped by the Portland Stage Company, published by Stage and Screen; finalist in the Clauder Competition, the Playwrights’ Theater’s “Plays for the 21st Century”; runner-up for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship;
featured in the Dayton Playhouse’ FutureFest; reading at the Abingdon Theatre Company.

Good Hope

Winner of the Colonial Players Promising Playwright Award; finalist for the Reva Shiner Play Competition; workshopped at the Lark Play Development Center and Contemporary Stage Company.

Gus is also playwright-in-residence at Equalogy, a theatre for social change. As an actor, he has appeared in over half of Shakespeare’s plays at the Pennsylvania and Orlando Shakespeare Festivals, APAC and Desales University, among others.