2020-21 Virtual Residencies
Eight Page 73 playwrights received eleven-day virtual residencies to hone their scripts. Each residency culminated in a live New Play Conversation featuring the artists, an excerpt from the play, and questions from the audience.
All of the New Play Conversations can all be viewed on Page 73’s YouTube Channel.
The Persians
by Sanaz Toossi
Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh
Every year, an Iranian-American family gathers in Los Angeles to celebrate Norooz, the Persian New Year. Shadi and Masoud find themselves increasingly at odds over their memories of the country they fled thirty years before, and the dissolution of their marriage forces their three children to reconsider their Iranian heritage against the backdrop of the 2016 election and its aftershocks.
View the digital Program here.
Sanaz Toossi was the 2019 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow and attended the 2019 Summer Residency.
Bitch
by Tyler English-Beckwith
Directed by Candis C. Jones
To celebrate her birthday, Perry rounds up her four best friends for a girls’ trip to New Orleans. As the festivities get underway, old animosities resurface and an altercation on Bourbon Street turns this uneasy reunion into something more perilous. Some friendships will survive, some will not, but everyone shakes their ass.
View the digital program here.
Tyler English-Beckwith is a member of the 2020-2021 Interstate 73 Writers Group.
Ass 2 Mouth
by Haygen-Brice Walker
Directed by Dustin Wills
As a series of grisly murders rocks Second Swamp County, the local teenagers are drawn into a torrid web of sex, death, and serial killers in this gay coming-of-age nightmare.
View the digital program here.
Haygen-Brice Walker is a member of the 2020-2021 Interstate 73 Writers Group.
The Boy Luck Club
by Vichet Chum
directed by Mei Ann Teo
An irreverent, contemporary riff on THE JOY LUCK CLUB in which four queer Asian American millennials reckon with the cultural legacy of Amy Tan's seminal novel--and the complex immigration sagas of their own families.
View the digital program here.
Vichet Chum is a member of the 2020-2021 Interstate 73 Writers Group.
La Race
by Bleu Beckford-Burrell
Directed by Tamilla Woodard
While Maxine is grappling with personal and professional setbacks, her best friend is scheming to have her run for local office in Far Rockaway. As Maxine and her unconventional election committee navigate race, identity, and gentrification along the trail, a campaign that began as a distraction turns into a mission of vital importance to Maxine and her community.
Bleu Beckford-Burrell was recently named the 2021 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. She is a member of the 2020 Interstate 73 writers group and attended the 2017 Summer Residency.
Madre de Dios
by Marvin González De León
Directed by David Mendizábal
Urgently summoned home by his grandmother, Moisés finds his family beset by a series of uncanny visitations and supernatural disturbances. As he struggles to reconnect with his estranged twin brother Noé, another reason for his homecoming emerges: the sinister Canopy built by the government casting the American southwest in unnatural darkness and threatening the family’s livelihood in the inhospitable Nevada desert.
Marvin González De León is a member of the 2020 Interstate 73 writers group.
Women and Children
by Emma Goidel
Directed by Colette Robert
Set in the near-future, Women and Children takes the battle over abortion to chilling new heights as a group of women’s rights advocates joins forces with big pharma for an experimental new treatment aimed at pregnant women charged with crimes against their unborn babies.
Emma Goidel is the 2020 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow and a member of the 2020 Interstate 73 writers group.
This Space Between Us
by Peter Gil-Sheridan
Directed by Margot Bordelon
When Jamie quits his job at a high-powered law firm to take a non-profit position in Kenya, he begins to slowly absent himself from his friendships, his relationship with his boyfriend, and most of all from his conservative Cuban-American family. Jamie’s search for something more and withdrawal from his old life brings his concerned family and friends together in unanticipated ways, with irreversible consequences for all of them.
Peter Gil-Sheridan was a member of Page 73’s 2013 Interstate 73 writers group.
