Gage Tarlton is a playwright from rural North Carolina, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His play Pretty Perfect Lives had its world premiere at The Flea Theater in summer 2024. His other works have been developed with Arterial Projects, The Queer Ensemble, La MaMa ETC, Victory Gardens Theater, The Kennedy Center, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Barter Theatre, and Queen City New Play Initiative. Most recently, he was a finalist for Cycle 2 of Rattlestick Theater’s Terrence McNally Incubator Fellowship, in partnership with Tom Kirdahy Productions and the Terrence McNally Foundation. Additionally, he has been a finalist for the UCross + The Blank Theatre’s Future of Playwriting Prize, a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow, a finalist and three-time semifinalist for The O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference, a finalist for the Neukom Institute’s Literary Arts Award for Playwriting, a semifinalist for the New Dramatists’ Princess Grace Award Playwriting Fellowship, amongst other achievements. He received a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He is represented by Farrah Cukor at United Talent Agency.