If you haven’t met our 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellow, now’s your chance!

The Thing About Air Travel

By Max Posner
Directed by Kerry Wigham

Marie is on the longest flight of her life — returning home from Kenya for her brother’s funeral. Miles up in the air, her mind swirls between the lover she’s left behind, the family awaiting her return, and her suddenly departed brother. A humorous look at the mechanics of language and loss, where brothers bark like dogs, seat mates make improbable pals, and no one is allowed to pee.

Wednesday, April 25 at 7:30pm
311 W. 43rd Street
MTC’s Creative Center, 8th Floor

To attend, RSVP to info@page73.org.

Max Posner’s plays include The Thing About Air Travel, The Famished, The War on Safety (published by Playscripts), You Me + The Spiders, and SNORE and other sorts of breathing. His plays have been staged and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Colt Coeur, The Hangar Theatre, Curious Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, Young Playwrights Inc, and Production Workshop. Max is a 2011 graduate of Brown University where he studied with Erik Ehn, Lisa D’Amour, Bonnie Metzgar, and Paula Vogel.

He is the recipient of the Weston Award in Playwriting and the 2011 Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville. Max was a finalist for Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission, is a member of Interstate 73, the Page 73 writers group, and is a founding member of FRANK. He occasionally finds himself onstage (in the original production of Gregory Moss’ punkplay and in FRANK’s inaugural production of Wallace Shawn’s A Thought in Three Parts). Max has led playwriting workshops with high schoolers in Nebraska, inmates in Rhode Island, and youth in Kenya’s Kibera slum. He was born and raised in Denver and lives in Brooklyn.

A reading from Interstate 73 Member Scott Organ

April has arrived, and it’s time for our first Interstate 73 reading of the year!

Point Last Seen

By Scott Organ
Directed by Wendy McClellan Anderson

Jane and Laura yearn for something new in their lives. Their husbands, Tucker and Dave, dread an imminent change — the office layoffs. Both couples struggle as their routines become unsettled and the bonds of friendship that held the four together are betrayed. A play about paint swatches, fertility sex, infidelity, and getting lost in the woods.

Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30pm
311 W. 43rd Street
Dodger Atelier, 6th Floor

To attend, RSVP to info@page73.org.

Scott Organ‘s play Phoenix had its world premiere at the 2010 Humana Festival and can be found in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2010. A movie based on the play is in pre-production. His short plays can be found in New American Short Plays 2005, edited by Craig Lucas, Best American Short Plays 2002-2003, and Great Short Plays: Volume 9, and have been performed throughout the country. His full-length plays have benefited from development at The New Group, The Atlantic Theater Company and The Barrow Group and have been performed throughout the country. He is also the author of the screenplays Better Man (Scriptapalooza semi-finalist), Phoenix, and Ghost Song; and the tv pilot The Pines.

Applications will be due May 1, 2012

All of us at Page 73 are pleased to announce that applications for Page 73′s 2013 P73 Playwriting Fellowship, 2013 Interstate 73 Writers Group, and 2013 Summer Residency are now available here!

Page 73’s programs serve early-career playwrights who have yet to receive a professional production in New York City. Page 73 has made a name for itself developing the work of some of the most exciting playwrights working in America today. Writers who have participated in our development programs include Samuel D. Hunter, Heidi Schreck, Jason Grote, Tommy Smith, Kirsten Greenidge, Robert Askins, and Quiara Alegria Hudes.

Applicants may apply for one or more of the following three programs:

The P73 Playwriting Fellowship
A year-long program that offers comprehensive development support plus a cash stipend of $5,000 to one playwright annually. The 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellow is Max Posner.

The Interstate 73 Writers Group
Our intimate writers group of six to eight playwrights meets twice a month to share new pages with each other and Page 73′s Executive and Associate Directors. Each member of Interstate 73 also receives a public or closed reading of a play at some point during the year. The current members of Interstate 73 are Amy Evans, Meghan Kennedy, Krista Knight, Scott Organ, Jason Gray Platt, Max Posner, Harrison Rivers, and Sarah Sander.

The Page 73 Summer Residency
Four writers join us each summer for a week on the Yale campus to either develop drafts in a solo retreat or through work with a director and a group of actors. The participants in the 2011 Summer Residency were Aaron Landsman, Janine Nabers, Eric Pfeffinger, and Emily Schwend.

Please see our application to learn more about each program. There is no fee to apply, and applications will be accepted via email or mail.

Interested in our programs? We hope you’ll apply! Have a friend or a colleague who is a playwright? We hope you’ll spread the word!

We look forward to reading the applications!

Congratulations, Max Posner!

Page 73 is proud to announce the 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellow.

Max will spend his year as Page 73′s fellow developing several new plays as well as participating in Interstate 73 and the Page 73 Summer Residency at Yale. We can’t wait to get started with him and are looking forward to sharing his work with you!

Max Posner‘s plays include The Thing About Air Travel, The Famished, The War on Safety (published by Playscripts), You Me + The Spiders, and SNORE and other sorts of breathing. His plays have been staged and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Colt Coeur, The Hangar Theatre, Curious Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, Young Playwrights Inc, and Production Workshop. Max is a 2011 graduate of Brown University where he studied with Erik Ehn, Lisa D’Amour, Bonnie Metzgar, and Paula Vogel. He is the recipient of the Weston Award in Playwriting and the 2011 Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville. Max was a finalist for Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission, is a member of Interstate 73, the Page 73 writers group, and is a founding member of FRANK. He occasionally finds himself onstage (in the original production of Gregory Moss’ punkplay and in FRANK’s upcoming production of Wallace Shawn’s A Thought in Three Parts). Max has led playwriting workshops with high schoolers in Nebraska, inmates in Rhode Island, and youth in Kenya’s Kibera slum. He was born and raised in Denver and lives in Brooklyn.

Page 73 is proud to announce the six Finalists for the 2012 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. This year Page 73 received applications for its development programs from nearly 250 exciting playwrights around the country. These six playwrights distinguished themselves through their abundant talent and thoughtful applications. We look forward to getting to know the work of each of these early-career writers better!

Congratulations to:
Deron Bos
Dorothy Fortenberry
Kara Manning
Mary Hamilton
Max Posner
Sarah Sander

If you are interested in learning more about any of these writers, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Come see a reading of the latest work by 2011 P73 Playwriting Fellow Janine Nabers!!

RSVP to info@p73.org or by calling 718-398-2099.

Welcome to Jesus
by 2011 P73 Playwriting Fellow Janine Nabers
directed by Oliver Butler

A small Texas town is rocked by a violent murder and suspicions of newcomers in their midst. Sheriff Paul hopes he can act quickly to determine whether he’s on the trail of one criminal or a whole host of devils.

Monday, December 12 and Tuesday, December 13*
7:30 PM
Stage IV at the Roy Arias Theatre Center at the Times Square Arts Center
300 West 43rd Street (at 8th Avenue)
4th Floor

*Please join us following Tuesday’s reading for a toast to Janine as she finishes her year as Page 73′s Fellow!!

Following the Saturday, September 24th performance of LIDLESS, Page 73 hosted a panel discussion featuring three actors with experience performing in works about America’s 21st-century wars and their repercussions.

Stone Phillips moderated the talk among Kathleen Chalfant, Coco Fusco, and LIDLESS’ Maha Chehlaoui. The women spoke of their experiences performing in theatre about the war, and how the supporting research they engaged in while preparing for their work  shaped their understanding of women’s roles in war.

Did you miss the panel? Now you can listen to event here!

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Special thanks to our panelists for participating, and to LIDLESS sound designer, Daniel Kluger, for recording the event.

PLEASE JOIN US

This coming Monday, October 10th at 4pm for a reading of

2010-2011 Interstate 73 member Mary Hamilton‘s newest play:

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY

directed by Davis McCallum.

There’s a hurricane bearing down on a small town by the ocean, and though the Coast Guard is forcing evacuation, a handful of residents have reasons of their own for staying right where they are.

This reading is free and open to the public.

RSVP to info@p73.org or call 718-398-2099

4 pm, Monday, October 10
Roundabout Theatre Company’s rehearsal studio
32 East 31st Street, 4th Floor

Meet the cast and crew of LIDLESS!
With Page 73′s first rehearsal last week (we live-tweeted through the earthquake), we are thrilled by all of the talented people working on LIDLESS. (See photos on Facebook.) The dynamic Tea Alagic directs a cast that includes…

• Danielle Skraastad (All My Sons on Broadway; The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…, Public/Signature; The Wake, Public)
• Laith Nakli (Aftermath, NYTW; War, Rattlestick)
• Thom Rivera (Distracted, Oregon Shakespeare; Much Ado About Nothing, NY Classical Theatre)
• Maha Chehlaoui (Aftermath, NYTW; Peer Gynt, Guthrie)
• Emma Galvin (David Cromer’s Our Town Off-Broadway; The Power of Birds, 3Graces Theatre)

Lidless will have scenic design by Scott Bradley, costume design by Jessica Pabst, lighting design by Tyler Micoleau, sound design by Daniel Kluger and fight direction by Thomas Schall.

Tickets on-sale soon!

Semi-finalists announced!
We’ve spent the summer enjoying the nearly 250 applications for Page 73′s development programs for playwrights. We love this process of getting to know new writers, and it gives us great pleasure to announce the 25 semifinalists for the 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellowship. Congratulations to our semifinalists and thanks again to all of our applicants!

(And thanks to this year’s selection committee who helped us in early rounds of reading: Mark Blankenship, Christie Evangelisto, Kip Fagan, Liz Groth, Davis McCallum, Rebecca Phillips, Stella Powell-Jones, Tommy Smith, Lisa Timmel, and Krista Williams.)

Without further ado, the semi-finalists: