Brent Askari

Brent Askari is thrilled to return to Gulfshore Playhouse. He

received the National New Play Network’s Smith Prize for

Political Theater for The Refugees, which had its world premiere

here in 2024. His play Andy Warhol in Iran premiered at

Barrington Stage Company, won the Berkshire Theatre Critics

Award for Best New Play, and was later produced at Northlight

Theatre in Chicago, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Mosaic

Theater in Washington, DC. His comedy Advice enjoyed a rolling

world premiere at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, B Street

Theatre in Sacramento, and Florida Repertory Theatre in Fort

Myers.

Other notable works include American Underground (Barrington

Stage Company, runner-up for the Bonnie and Terry Burman New

Play Award); Hard Cell (developed at PlayPenn, produced at Geva

Theatre Center); White Party (developed at Florida Repertory

Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, and Palm Beach Dramaworks;

semi-finalist for the O’Neill Conference, finalist for the Bay

Area Playwrights Festival); Digby’s Home (semi-finalist O’Neill

Conference, produced at Mad Horse Theatre); Cocktails and

Travails (winner of the Neil Simon Festival’s National New Play

Contest, produced at The Theater Project, upcoming production at

the Turkish State Theater in Ankara, Turkey); Bending Reeds

(semi-finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival, developed at Blank

Stage Living Room Series); and Dirty Deeds Downeast (produced at

Penobscot Theatre Company and Portland Stage Company.

Brent has written for HBO’s New Writers Project and penned

screenplays for Paramount Pictures, Marvel Films, and MTV. He is

an ensemble member of Mad Horse Theatre Company and an affiliate

artist with the National New Play Network. He also narrated the

nationally syndicated television show Animal Science, which

received a Daytime Emmy nomination.