Weston Gaylord

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Weston Gaylord is a playwright and librettist based in Los Angeles. He has been a member of the Geffen Writers’ Room and The Vagrancy Playwrights Group, a recipient of the Humanitas PLAY LA fellowship, and a finalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the O’Neill National Musical Theatre Conference. He is a winning playwright of the Ashland New Plays Festival 2023, and has also developed original work at the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley New Works Festival, The Vagrancy’s Blossoming Festival, and San Jose Repertory’s Emerging Artists Lab. Weston has created immersive and mixed-reality theatrical experiences with Disney Imagineering, Meta, MWM Interactive, FX, and Spy Brunch. His work has also been featured at the Cannes XR Showcase, Games For Change, The Latest Draft podcast, A Little New Music and the Future of Storytelling Festival. He holds a B.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from Stanford, where he also studied playwriting with Amy Freed and puppetry with Basil Twist.