Austin Jennings Boykin is a New York based actor/writer/comedian. He was raised in North Carolina where he spent the majority of his time swimming competitively. Between the two of them, Austin and Michael Phelps have a combined 23 Olympic Gold Medals.
He attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and later went on to study at the William Esper Studio.
Television credits include: Fleishman Is in Trouble (FX), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), The Gilded Age (HBO), Hunters (AMAZON).
Theatrically, Austin has performed in New York and regionally with The 24 Hour Plays, The Signature Theatre, Fringe NYC, Provincetown Theater, Shakespeare & Co, Williamstown, Tennessee Williams Festival and more.
A budding screenwriter, his debut screenplay, “Why Storms Are Named After People”, placed at the Austin Film Festival Script Competition—out of 14K+ entries. Additionally, it placed at the Big Apple Film Festival and New York International Screenplay Awards. He’s currently in pre-production for the recently commissioned “Wooly Bully”—more details to follow on that.
As a comic, he was advanced to the finals at the New York Queer Comedy Festival and has performed on stages at Greenwich Village Comedy Club, City Winery, Broadway Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, West Side Comedy Club, Rockwood Music Hall, and more.
Occasionally, he writes about himself in third person.