Augie Praley is a Manhattan based writer, director and actor. Praley’s work in theatre has been seen across the world in cities including Chicago, Washington, DC, New York and Tbilisi, Georgia. His play “Thanksgiving at Chekov’s” was a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and his screenplay “i am become the sea” was a quarter-finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. In 2014, The New York Times called Augie, Alone “a series of delightful solo vignettes that announce a strong new comic voice.” He is also creator and director of the Super Deluxe web series “Future You” Praley studied Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago and received an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts. Augie is currently developing projects for television and works at Comedy Central.