A. John Boulanger is a Texas-native, NYC-based playwright/director. ​ His debut play, HOUSE OF SEVERAL STORIES, has been recognized locally and nationally, winning the Michael Kanin National Student Playwriting Award (2009) and the David Mark Cohen Best New Play Award (2010). HOSS was produced at the Kennedy Center as part of the American College Theatre Festival, and Imagine That's Austin production was listed on three Top Lists of 2009 by The Austin Chronicle and The Austin-American Statesman.  His work has been developed by Troupe Texas and Imagine That (Austin), Working Man’s Clothes (NYC) and also performed as part of The Chance Theatre’s On-The-Radar Series (LA). His plays HERE'S TO YOU and A WRITER'S VISION(S) delighted audiences at FronteraFest International Play Festival, with the latter garnering Best of Fest in 2011. ​ Boulanger has also received directing honors from The William Inge Center for the Arts, a two-week observership to the Sundance Theatre Lab, and was the national winner at the Phi Rho Pi National Forensics Competition for Dramatic Duo Acting. ​ Boulanger currently resides in Astoria, NY, working on his new plays IT'S NOT ME and SOME DAYS, and collaborating on a film adaptation of HOSS.