August Gladstone is a Los Angeles-based writer, poet, musician, filmmaker, performer, and clown whose work moves freely across music, comedy, poetry, screenwriting, and live performance. Raised in a theatrical environment, he began acting as a child and was performing on Broadway by the age of six, developing an early relationship with storytelling and the stage.
As a musician, August works in the tradition of the troubadour, drawing heavily from the folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s. His songs combine literary lyricism with surrealism, intimacy, humor, and political observation, earning comparisons to artists including Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Jim Morrison. As a lyricist, he has also written for members of Supertramp, Crowded House, and Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band.
His debut EP, “Commodore,” arrived in 2025, followed by his first full-length album, “The Golden West,” in 2026. The album expands his sound into a mix of folk, psychedelic rock, poetry, and Western imagery, exploring spirituality, existentialism, love, American mythology, and the contradictions between idealism and reality.
August’s creative work extends well beyond music. He is an award-winning and widely published poet whose work has appeared in publications including Pa’Lante!, Winged Moon, Inlandia, and other literary journals. In 2025, he was selected as a Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Guild Artist in Residence, where he continued developing his writing and poetry alongside his musical work.
As a writer and performer, August has worked across film, television, comedy, theater, and experimental performance. His independently produced comedy pilot “The Law Brothers” earned recognition on the festival circuit, while his performance background includes appearances with the internationally touring clown troupe Stamptown during the 2024 Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival.
Across all of these disciplines, August approaches art as a single interconnected practice rather than a collection of separate careers. Whether writing a song, poem, screenplay, comedy piece, or live performance, his work is centered on language, character, contradiction, and the search for meaning through storytelling.
