About Philippe Bowgen

Philippe Bowgen is a queer Latinx writer and performer who splits his time between Los Angeles and New York. He holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Brown/Trinity Repertory Company, a postgraduate diploma in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), and a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University.

His work can be seen in all mediums - theater, television, and film. 

Born and raised on the east coast, Europe, and schooled throughout the world, Philippe's work has been deemed poised, passionate, and deeply intricate - the New York Times has hailed him as a promising young physical performer.

As a writer, he is a queer, multi-racial, multi-national, multi-lingual millennial… who also hates overusing labels! Philippe writes Latinx and queer stories about culture clash and family dynamics with an offbeat comedic sensibility. After a decade as a working actor in TV and film, Philippe decided he wanted to build worlds as well as act inside them and he took his M.F.A. from Brown and put it to use as a TV writer. Cultivating his comedy skills at the Groundlings and on the cutthroat LA standup scene, Philippe honed his voice and his first pilot, BURN, was a Sundance New Voices Finalist and top three at The Nashville Film Festival the same year. He is a multiple-time second-rounder at the Austin Film Festival, semifinalist at WeScreenplay Diverse Voices, a 2023 #ReadLatinxWriters mentee, a 2024 Pre-Rainbow Pages mentee and a Mentorship Matters Fellow for 2025. He just finished co-writing the first ten episodes of THE SETUP, a new scripted romantic comedy podcast starring Harvey Guillén (What We Do In The Shadows) and Christian Navarro (13 Reasons Why) for SONORO Global Media currently available via iHeartRadio’s My Cultura Network on all major podcast platforms. 

Philippe's on camera work is currently being screened at festivals worldwide and his guest star roles are on several of the major network, cable and streaming platforms including the CW, Hulu, and FOX. His theatrical work has been seen on the New York stage and at many of the largest regional theaters in the country and abroad - The Guthrie, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theater, The Shakespeare Theater of DC, and Trinity Repertory Company to name a few.  

"Doing plays again has just made me a lot happier. So the decision to come [to The Old Globe] was pretty easy. To be around great actors. And I feel I learn from people like Philippe. And it makes me happy."

- Justin Long, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" at The Old Globe, February 2017

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