Playwright, Theater/Film & Broadcast artist, and a Culture and Arts Development Practitioner. She is a Cum Laude graduate of Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications major in Broadcasting at West Visayas State University in Iloilo. The Philippines and was awarded as one of the 1997 Five Outstanding Graduate of the University and one of the 1997 Ten Outstanding Students of Western Visayas.

She Finished Theater Arts’ courses on Beginning Acting, Production and Stage Management, and Basic Playwriting in the CCP’s Summer Art Workshops (2000-2002). She also finished a course on Poetic Film at the MOWELFUND Film Institute (2002). She wrote and performed a monologue Manug-apok (The Priestess, 2000) at CCP’s Tanghalang Huseng Batute.

August’s written contemporary plays were internationally recognized and presented through dramatic readings by professional actors in the Women Playwrights International Conferences (WPIC) such as Nagligad St. cor. Subong St. which was presented at Sodra Teatern in Stockholm City, Sweden (9th WPIC, 2012), and “Tenk yu por kuling” which was presented at Hiddingh Hall in Cape Town, South Africa (10th WPIC, 2015). Nagligad St. cor. Subong St. (presented by The Performance Laboratory, Inc, under the direction of Venise Buenaflor) had its world premiere performance in the Kuris Theatre Festival (February 2020) in Bacolod City. The play was subsequently presented in WPI Philippines’ Festival of Plays by Women (March 2020) as one of the featured performances at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute. On the other hand, the theatre group Relive Your Passion PH (RYP) presented Tenk yu por kuling in their 38th live session on the RYP Facebook page and YouTube Channel (August 2020).

As an output from Anton Juan’s 2020 Workshop on The Semiotic Process of Playwriting: Memory-Will-Imagination-Action, August wrote the play, Ermil. Presented also by The Performance Laboratory, Inc. under the direction of Noel Pahayupan, Ermil had its world premiere performance in Kuris Theatre Festival (February 2021).

In 2020, August was one of the featured playwrights in the International Co-Writing project for the play “Nyla”. The collaborative writing project with international playwrights was a component of the Quarantine Kunst Party 2020, an online theatre event in the midst of the pandemic that was organized by Yena Gim, a Korean Theatre Director and Performing Artist.

At present, August is actively involved in various local and international theatre and holds the following positions:
~ President and Asia Region Representative, Women Playwrights International Management Committee (2018 to present)
~ Board Member, International Playwrights’ Forum of the International Theatre Institute (2009 to present)
~ Co-Chairperson, ITI-Philippine Centre’s IPF Committee or IPF-Philippines
~ Board Member, WPI Philippines (2000 to present)