August Schulenburg

Artistic Director

August’s plays include Carrin Beginning, Kidding Jane, Rue, Riding the Bull, Good Hope, Other Bodies, 19 Words, Perfect Children, Wake to Dream and The Lesser Seductions of History. His plays have been produced and developed at The Lark, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Chelsea Playhouse, Theater for the New City, Portland Stage Company, Dayton Playhouse, Colonial Players, Contemporary Stage Company, Abingdon Theater Company, Gideon Productions, Impetuous Theater Group, Blue Box Productions, and of course, Flux Theatre Ensemble. His work has been published in the New York Theater Review and Stage and Screen.
As an actor, August’s favorite roles include Ezekiel in 8 Little Antichrists and the Professor in Rue (both Flux), Angelo in Measure for Measure and Touchstone in As You Like It (both APAC), and has also acted at the Pennsylvania and Orlando Shakespeare Festivals and the Theater at Monmouth.

August directed Flux’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the staged reading of The Dream Chain. He has also directed for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and Equalogy, a theatre for social change where he was the playwright-in-residence.

August’s play The Lesser Seduction’s of History will be produced by Flux in Fall 2009.