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Headshots and Biographies

AUBERTH BERCY* (Bake Off Host) Originally from Miami, FL, and now based out of NYC, Auberth Bercy graduated with her BFA from New World School of the Arts College. She's been seen Off-Broadway in the Chelsea Clinton musical She Persisted, based off the children's book of the same name. More recently, you may have seen her in Bleu Beckford-Burrell's world premiere production of La Race produced by Page 73 + Working Theater. Auberth Bercy is also a comedian, having been featured as a finalist in The Black Women In Comedy Festival LA, and will be competing in this year's YAAAS Fest, New York's Queer Comedy Festival at Broadway Comedy Club! She also runs her own production company, AWRY Productions, which you can find out more about on arewerollingyet.com 

COLETTE ROBERT (Bake Off Director) is a director and playwright from Los Angeles, based in New York. She directed the world premieres of STEW by Zora Howard at Page 73 and Behind The Sheet by Charly Evon Simpson at Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a member. She recently directed the first New York revival of Crumbs From the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage with Keen Company. Regional credits include City Theatre Company, Penumbra Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Colette is an alumnus of The New Georges Jam, The Drama League's Beatrice Terry Residency, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and The Public Theater’s Van Lier Directing Fellowship. Her play The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents The 84th Annual Star-burst Cotillion In The Grand Ballroom of The Renaissance Hotel produced by New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company, is now running. She is the current SDCF Denham Fellow.

JAHNA FERRON-SMITH (Bake Off Playwright) is a recent graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship at the Juilliard School, and current member of the Obie Award-winning playwrights collective Youngblood (EST) and Page 73's Interstate 73. Her plays have been performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Her plays include The Woods (Venturous Playwright Fellowship winner; support from SPACE on Ryder Farm), Running While Black (Ojai Playwrights Conference Foundry Project) and SIR (published by Samuel French).

MARVIN GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN (Bake Off Playwright) is a first-generation Mexican-American who writes plays that incorporate a myriad of genres—from sci fi to horror—anchored in the traditions of Latin American literature. His work has been produced and developed at Teatro Bravo, Arizona State University, Texas State University, Teatro del Pueblo, Round House Theatre, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Page 73 Productions, The Playwrights Realm, and the Playwrights’ Center. He is the recipient of the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. He is a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, where he was previously awarded the Jerome Fellowship, the McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting, and the Many Voices Fellowship. He was a member of the 2020/2021 Interstate 73 Writers Group at Page 73 Productions and was a 2020-2021 Virtual Realm Mentee with The Playwrights Realm. His plays include Madre de Dios, Pan Genesis, and Too Close to Earth, which he is currently developing with Page 73 and the Playwrights’ Center. González De León received his MFA in Dramatic Writing in 2017 at Arizona State University. He has taught playwriting at Macalester College, Augsburg University, and ASU.

MAJKIN HOLMQUIST (Bake Off Playwright) is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. In January of 2023, her play Tent Revival will be produced by Paula Vogel’s Bard at the Gate series in partnership with the McCarter Theatre Center. Other plays include Stargazers, Every Anne Frank, Quickmatch, The Dog Pack Play, and Skinflint. Credits include The Quonsets (co-written with Alex Lubischer, Yale Cabaret), Broken Melodies (WVIT Women in Theatre Festival), and Styx Songs (contributing writer, Yale Cabaret). Her work has been developed at New York Stage and Film, Woodshed Collective, Bay Street Theatre, Page 73, Ucross, and Roundabout Theatre Company. She has been a finalist for Colt Coeur, the Pacific Playwright’s Festival, and PlayPenn. She is currently a member of Midnight Oil Collective and Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group, and is a Lecturer in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She holds a BA in Secondary English Education from Bethany College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. 

CRYSTAL DICKINSON* (Bake Off Actor) has performed on Broadway in the Tony Award-Winning Play, Clybourne Park, for which she received an illustrious Theater World Award and the Tony Nominated Play, You Can't Take It With You. She has also performed Off Broadway at Lincoln Center, The Signature Theater, The Public, Playwrights Horizons and Theater for A New Audience. Film and Television credits include: “This is Where I Leave You” and recurring roles on "The Chi" on Showtime and "For Life" on ABC. Currently Crystal is performing the role of Angel in Blues for an Alabama Sky at The McCarter Theater in Princeton.

ANNIE HENK* (Bake Off Actor) Off Broadway: World Premieres of California (Clubbed Thumb), Man Cave (Page 73), Blind Alley (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre-NY debut), Pinkolandia, Lucy Loves Me (Intar), To The Bone (Cherry Lane), City of No Illusions (Talking Band), Cute Activist (New Saloon), The Rafa Play (The Flea), La Ruta (Working Theater), Enfrascada (Clubbed Thumb), Frank Dwyer, Sadly Missed (EST). Regional: Bad Dates (Portland Stage), Shape (Kitchen Theatre), Pinkolandia (Two River Theatre), Enfrascada (Renaissance Theaterworks). Voice: PBSKids Series “Alma’s Way” (Mami), “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”, Sunstroke. Podcasts: “Macbeth” (Play On), “The Bleeding Class” (Geva Theatre), “Junior Spacelords” (Kennedy Center). TV Guest Roles: “Bull” (CBS), “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Longmire” (Netflix), “Red Oaks” (Amazon). Film: PonyBoi (2023), Entre Nos, That’s What She Said. Member of the Actors Center. IG: anniehenkisme

SAM BRESLIN WRIGHT* (Bake Off Actor)Broadway: Macbeth. Selected Off Broadway: The Trees, Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, The Temperamentals (Drama Desk Award, Best Ensemble), Coop, Bonnie’s Last Flight, King Phillip’s Head, Vendetta Chrome, Paris Commune. Selected Regional: We’re Gonna Be Okay (Humana Festival), Bunny Foo Foo (Actor’s Theater of Louisville), The Three Sisters (Berkeley Rep/Yale Rep), eight seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Selected TV & Film: “Madam Secretary” (recurring), “Bull” (recurring), “Elementary”, “Law and Order”, “The Beaver”, “Rescue Me”, Upcoming: “The Crowded Room” (Apple TV). M.F.A. UCSD. Artistic Associate of The Civilians.

SUSAN SOON HE STANTON is a playwright, television writer, and screenwriter originally from ‘Aiea, Hawai‘i, and now living in New York and London. Her plays have been produced internationally and regionally across the United States, and include We, The Invisibles (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival); Today Is My Birthday (Page 73, Yale Repertory Theatre); Both Your Houses (ACT New Strands/ Crowded Fire); Takarazuka!!! (Clubbed Thumb, East West Players, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Workshop); Cygnus (WP Theater Pipeline, Kilroys List); Solstice Party! (Live Source); The Things Are Against Us (Washington Ensemble Theatre); Moana Jr. (book) for Disney Theatrical Group, Navigator (Honolulu Theatre for Youth), among others. Her libretto for Turandot will premiere at Washington National Opera in 2024. Susan has worked on all four seasons of HBO’s “Succession”, as a writer/producer, for which she has received Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and Peabody Awards. Television work includes Amazon/Annapurna’s “Dead Ringers”; Hulu/ BBC’s “Conversations With Friends”, adapted from the novel by Sally Rooney; HBO/Sister Pictures’ “The Baby”; Amazon’s “Modern Love”; as well as several projects in development. She is a co-writer of the award-winning feature film, Brooklyn Love Stories. Her film, Dress, won the Audience Award at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival. She is a two-time Sundance Theater Lab Resident Playwright. Theatre Awards and honors include a Venturous Award at The Lark Play Development Center, Susan Glaspell Prize, Kilroy’s List, and the Leah Ryan FEWW Award. Susan is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch Dramatic Writing Program and Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama. Writers Groups past and present include Page 73’s Interstate 73, New Dramatists, and MaYi’s Playwright’s Lab, Primary Stage’s Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Public’s Emerging Writer’s Group, Civilians R&D, and SoHo Rep’s Writer Director Lab. 

LEAH NANAKO WINKLER is an award-winning playwright and TV Writer from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her plays include God Said This (World Premiere: Humana Festival, Off Broadway : Primary Stages), Two Mile Hollow (Kilroys List, Simultaneous world premiere w/ Artists At Play in LA, Mixed Blood/Theater Mu in Minneapolis, First Floor Theater in Chicago and Ferocious Lotus in SF), Kentucky (World premiere: Off Broadway Ensemble Studio Theater/ Page 73.)  Linus and Murray (Off Broadway: EST/Marathon ), Double Suicide at Ueno Park (Off Boadway EST/Marathon 2) Hot Asian Doctor Husband (Theater Mu/Mixed Blood), and Nevada-Tan (an Audible commission). Her newest play, The Brightest Thing in the World premiered at Yale Repertory Theater last fall. Accolades and fellowships: Yale Drama Series Prize, Inaugural Mark O’Donnell Prize from The Actors Fund and Playwrights Horizons,  Audible’s Emerging Playwrights Fund, Jerome New York Fellowship, Steinberg Playwright Award, Francesca Primus Prize. TV credits include “New Amsterdam”, “Love Life” and “Ramy” - where she won a Peabody with the other writers. She is currently working on projects with Apple TV, Amazon and Warner Brothers. MFA Brooklyn College. 

25th Anniversary Committee

Emily Feinstein, co-chair
Federico Mennella, co-chair
Allison Blinken
Elizabeth Cho
Amanda Feldman
Carson Gleberman
Liz Jones
Catherine Mathis
Asher Richelli
Amanda Woods

New Play Map

Page 73 playwrights are on stage in New York City and around the country.

Kudoboard

See more kudos from Agnes Borinsky, Bleu Beckford-Burrell, Taylor Reynolds, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Vichet Chum, Roger Q. Mason, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Colette Robert, Gina Femia, Samuel D. Hunter, Gab Reisman, Scott R. Shepard, and more!

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Event Consultants: Allison Gutstein and Connor Stribling, Donorly
Event Manager: Megan Schwarz Dickert*
Associate Event Manager: Diane Healy
Volunteers: Dmitri Ades-Laurent, Emmie D’Amico, Jess Mount, Katie Young, Siena Yusi
Key Art and Graphic Designer: Gerda Mostonaite
Marketing Consultant: Stephen M. Cyr
City Winery Staff: Emily Piuggi, Matthew Schwalm, and Lauren Taylor 

* Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.

For more information contact Managing Director, Dennis Whipple — dennis@page73.org, (718) 398-2099.