Gage Tarlton is a playwright from rural North Carolina, currently living in Brooklyn, NY.

His produced work includes Pretty Perfect Lives (The Flea Theater, 2024) and xXPonyBoyDerekXx (OnlyFans, 2023). He is currently a member of The Orchard Project’s Greenhouse Lab and was formerly a playwriting fellow at The Kennedy Center. His work has been developed by La MaMa ETC, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Victory Gardens Theater, Barter Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Queer Ensemble, Arterial Projects, Workshop Theater, and FourPlaysAnd.

He has been a finalist for The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Theater’s Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, the Neukom Literary Arts Award for Playwriting, The Blank Theater’s Future of Playwriting Prize, The Civilian’s R&D Group, amongst other achievements.

He is represented in theater by Farrah Cukor at United Talent Agency and in film/television by Brandy Rivers at Amplified Management.