Weston Gaylord is a writer and mixed-reality creative technologist based in Los Angeles.
His plays include Octopus’s Garden (2026 World Premiere co-produced by Boston Court Pasadena, Circle X, and Outside In), and Word of Mouth (IAMA New Works Festival, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference). He is a 2026 finalist for the Princess Grace Award/Fellowship in Playwriting.
His plays have also been featured at the Ashland New Plays Festival, Boston Court Pasadena New Play Reading Festival, TheatreWorks New Works Festival, and New Roots Theatre Festival. Weston is an alum of the Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room and The Vagrancy Playwrights Group and a recipient of the Humanitas PLAY LA fellowship.
He co-wrote and developed Chained: A Victorian Nightmare, bringing together real-time motion capture, room-scale VR, and immersive theater for a new adaptation of Dickens’ classic ghost story. Chained premiered at a custom-built installation in LA in 2018 and was later featured at the Future of Storytelling festival in New York.
Weston has written and developed immersive and mixed-reality theatrical experiences with Disney Imagineering, Meta, Madison Wells, FX, and Spy Brunch. His writing has also been featured at the Cannes XR Showcase, Games For Change, A Little New Music, The Latest Draft podcast and the Future of Storytelling Festival.
Finalist: O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, NAMT Festival of New Musicals, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Lucille Lortel 121 Project.
Weston has studied playwriting with Amy Freed and puppetry with Basil Twist. He holds a B.S. from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems, with a focus in Human-Computer Interaction.