MICHELINE AUGER is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, journalist, producer, and first-time film director. Her first play Poop - A True Story was about her experience being an art object in a downtown NYC gallery. She's been featured in American Theater Magazine, as well as the NY Times, NPR, Bust Magazine, and New York Magazine. 

Her feature The Last Pussycat was a finalist for the Writers Lab supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman and a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival (along with the TV pilot). Her animated half-hour pilot Amazing Donut Hole was an Austin Film Festival Second Rounder. Her short film script Dead Girls was a Sundance Collab top pick and her short film Little Piggy was selected for the Cleveland Short. Sweet. Film Fest and was nominated for Most Outrageous at the Orlando Film Festival.

Her play #love95times developed with The Farm Theater Commission was nominated for the Kennedy Center's David Mark Cohen Award. She received the Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Original Full-Length Script for her play Donkey Punch, which received an off-Broadway run at SoHo Playhouse (Time Out NY Critics' pick) and was she was subsequently voted one of Indie Theater’s People of the Year. She received the National Theatre Conference Paul Green Award given by veteran Broadway producer Liz McCann. Her work has been developed/produced by Dixon Place, Primary Stages, The Flea Theater, Labyrinth, Rising Phoenix Rep, Barefoot Theatre Company, Ivy Theater Company, Lesser American, The Amoralists,, FringeNYC, New York Madness, OMPF, Horse Trade Theatre Group, Riot Act, Caps Lock Theatre Company, Sugarspace and Highways Performance Complex, among others.  

Auger is also the creator and editor-in-chief of Theaterspeak and the event WRITE OUT FRONT which has put over 200 playwrights in the window of the Drama Book Shop writing new plays on view of the public in the Times Square Theater District. WRITE OUT FRONT and has been featured on the front page of the NYTimes Saturday Arts Section, WNYC, Time Out NY, and the news show, NY1. She has worked with and produced for the Lilly Awards Foundation, founded by Marsha Norman and Theresa Rebeck, and is a proud member of The Playwright/Director Unit at the Actors Studio, the Barefoot Theater Company Family, New York Madness Theater Company, and the Dramatist Guild.