Weston Gaylord is a writer and mixed-reality creative technologist based in Los Angeles.
His plays have been featured at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Ashland New Plays Festival, IAMA New Works Festival, Boston Court Pasadena New Play Reading 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 has also developed new work with Circle X, Outside In, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, SFBATCO, and Z Space.
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. Semifinalist: Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
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.
Representation: Jev Valles, 42 Management & Production