Come celebrate spring with a new crop of I73 members!  Our first public reading of the year is Song of Extinction by E.M. Lewis on Wednesday, May 15th @ 4pm. Reply for your free reservation at www.page73.org/tickets

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Song of Extinction
By EM Lewis
Directed by Carolyn Cantor
With: Ephraim Birney, Reed Birney, Curzon Dobell, Enid Graham, Jonathan Hova, and Francis Jue

Wednesday, May 15th
4pm
Roundabout Rehearsal Studio
115 W. 45th Street, 12th Floor
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EM Lewis received a 2012 Fellowship in Playwriting from the New Jersey Council for the Arts, and the 2010-2011 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She won the 2009 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for Song of Extinction and the 2008 Primus Prize for Heads from the American Theater Critics Association. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She’s the NJ Rep for and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. Recent: Song of Extinction at the Guthrie and at CUNY Hostos College, Apple Season in the Six Women Playwriting Festival, playwright-­in-residence for the New Voices for the Theater program in Richmond, VA, and the world premiere of Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday at HotCity Theater in St. Louis, MO. Current: working on an epic new play set in Antarctica, and an intimate two­-hander set in her home state of Oregon. www.emlewisplaywright.com

In Song of Extinction, Max, a musically gifted high school student, is falling off the edge of the world — and his biology teacher is the only one who’s noticed. A play about the science of life and loss, the relationships between fathers and sons, Cambodian fields, Bolivian rainforests and redemption.

Winner of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and the Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an Outstanding New Play from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.

Meet the cast and crew of Sleeping Rough!

Sam Buntrock, Renata Friedman, Kara Manning, Kellie Overbey, and Quentin Maré

We’re diving into our second week of rehearsal and are so excited by all of the amazing people working on Kara Manning’s Sleeping Rough. (See photos on Facebook.) Sam Buntrock (Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway, Turn of the Screw at New York City Opera) directs a cast that includes…

• Renata Friedman (The K of D, NY Fringe/Seattle Rep; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, New Victory)
• Quentin Maré (Rock ‘n’ Roll on Broadway; Happy Now?, Primary Stages, Yale Rep)
• Kellie Overbey (The Coast of Utopia, Twentieth Century on Broadway; Lucille Lortel Nomination for The Savannah Disputation at Playwrights Horizons; Rapture, Blister, Burn Playwrights Horizons)

Sleeping Rough will have scenic design by Kris Stone, costume design by Kaye Voyce, lighting design by Brian Tovar, and sound design by Jill BC Du Boff and Sam Kusnetz

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Applications Are Now Available here for our 2014 Development Programs.  Applications will be due May 1, 2013.

All of us at Page 73 are pleased to announce that applications for Page 73′s 2014 P73 Playwriting Fellowship, 2014 Interstate 73 Writers Group, and 2014 Summer Residency are now available to be completed online through our website!

We will host an information session about our application for interested playwrights on Thursday, March 21st, from 7-8pm at 311 W. 43rd Street, on the 8th floor. Please click here to reserve a spot for the session.

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 $10,000 to one playwright annually. The 2013 P73 Playwriting Fellow is Caroline V. McGraw.

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 directors. Each member of Interstate 73 also receives a public or closed reading of a play at some point during the year. The 2013 members of Interstate 73 are Stephen Brown, Meghan Deans, Peter Gil-Sheridan, David Jenkins, Kait Kerrigan, EM Lewis, and Caroline V. McGraw.

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 collaborate with a director and a group of actors. The participants in the 2012 Summer Residency were Deron Bos, Dorothy Fortenberry, Max Posner and Cori Thomas.

Please see our application to learn more about each program. There is no fee to apply, and applications will be accepted via the form on our website.

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!

Apply now!

Or

Reserve a spot for the information session!

Page 73 is proud to announce that Caroline V. McGraw has been awarded the 2013 P73 Playwriting Fellowship!

2013 marks Page 73′s 15th season supporting early-career playwrights, and the 10th year offering our nationally recognized P73 Playwriting Fellowship, which provides $10,000 in direct support to the playwright and an additional budget for the development of her work. We’re incredibly proud to add Caroline to our list of fellows we’ve supported.

Caroline will work on several projects this year, including Believeland — about a young playwright encountering her hometown of Cleveland and the beat poet d.a. levy — and an as-yet-untitled play which follows a group of writers at a women’s magazine as they grapple with sex, death, and the disappointments of the material world.

Caroline will also join the 2013 Interstate 73 writers group and attend the Page 73 Summer Residency at Yale. We can’t wait to start working with her and we look forward to sharing her work with you throughout the year!

Caroline V. McGraw’s plays include The Bachelors, The Vaults, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, Debut Track One Chord One Verse One (or, The Shed), The King Is Dead, and Trade. Her writing has been produced and developed around the country, including at the Cherry Lane Theatre by Young Playwrights Inc., the Abingdon by Highwire Theatre, Yale Cabaret, American University’s New Works Series, the Cleveland Play House Next Stage Festival, F*It Club/Interborough Rep, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, AracaWorks, Theatre4, the Intiman Theatre Festival/One Coast Collaboration, the Amoralists, Portland Center Stage, and Washington Ensemble Theatre, where Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys will have its world premiere in Spring 2013. She is the winner of the Young Playwrights Inc. National Festival and the AracaWorks Graduate Playwriting Award. She is a New Georges Affiliate Artist and member of the Jam. She has mentored and taught playwriting at Yale, Horizon Theatre, New Haven Co-op High School, and Wesleyan University. Caroline is a native of Cleveland Ohio, and a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College. She recently completed the MFA Playwriting program at the Yale School of Drama, where she studied with Paula Vogel.

We’re wasting no time in 2013, diving into four developmental workshops of exciting new plays. It’s our annual Page 2 Workshop, where we give writers resources that go beyond one-day readings to help them develop new drafts and hear their work in front of a friendly audience. For the month of January, Page 73 will take up residence in the East Village at the 4th Street Theatre, where playwrights Kimber Lee, Cori Thomas, Kait Kerrigan, and Mary Hamilton will each work with a director and cast of actors to push their scripts to the next draft.

First up is Kimber’s play, which will have two public readings –

- reserve a free spot here!!

Different Words for the Same Thing

By Kimber Lee
Directed by Thomas Kail

With David Ayers, Jenni Barber, John Behlmann, Jordyn DiNatale, Alfredo Narciso, Kelley Rae O’Donnell, Larry Pine, Brian Quijada, Phyllis Somerville, Samantha Soule, Joe Urla, and Amy Kim Waschke

Monday, January 14th at 7:30pm
Tuesday, January 15th at 3:00pm
The 4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street

Tickets are free, however seating is limited. Reservations are required by clicking here.

It’s summertime in a small town in southwestern Idaho. Past and present reside uneasily in a complicated web of relationships among people living in the town, and the return of a prodigal child may or may not provide the release they all seek.

Kimber Lee has twice been a semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship. She recently received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin Playwriting Program. Plays include fight, different words for the same thing, and brownsville song, and her work has been produced and developed by the Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival (2012), the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program (2011-2012), Represent Playwrights Festival at ACT Theatre/Seattle (2012), The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis (Core Apprentice 2010-2011), Theatre of the 1st Amendment/First Light Discovery Program (2011), Great Plains Theatre Conference (2010, Mainstage Playwright), Theatre Masters National MFA Playwriting Competition (2009), Southern Rep (2011 Ruby Prize Finalist Reading), UT Austin Theatre & Dance (2010 Mainstage), and Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company (2007). Her play fight received the 2010 Holland New Voices Award. Kimber has been a two-time Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, a Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Ruby Prize, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and the PONY Fellowship at the Lark Play Development Center. She is currently a Fellow in the 2012-2013 Playwrights’ Workshop at the Lark, and a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab.

These additional Page 2 Workshops will receive development time this January:

Akosua Means Sunday

by Cori Thomas
Directed by Lisa Peterson

Reading Monday, January 21
By invitation only

Akosua arrives at an Upper West Side Supermarket after winning a Green Card Lottery in Ghana… A play about Americans, none of whom were born in this country.

Cori Thomas was a member of the 2008-2009 Interstate 73 writers group, attended our 2009 retreat at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and was a resident at the Page 73 Summer Residency at Yale in 2012, where she worked on an early draft of Akosua. Her plays include: When January Feels Like Summer (World Premiere City Theatre Co., Pittsburgh); Pa’s Hat (World Premiere Pillsbury House Theatre, MN); My Secret Language of Wishes (Mixed Blood, MN); The Princess, The Breast, and The Lizard; The Unusual Love Life of Bedbugs and Other Creatures Waking Up; (World Premiere River Crosses Rivers, EST, NYC) Playing on Air-NPR; His Daddy (World Premiere River Crosses Rivers, EST, NYC); our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Thomas is a lifetime member in Acting/Writing at Ensemble Studio Theatre (NYC). She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, Member of ‘Wright on! writing group, Lark Play Development Center. She has received a grant from the Jerome Foundation and has been a Sundance Theatre Institute Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. She was awarded the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award for Best New Play (When January Feels Like Summer) and the 2005 Theodore Ward Prize (My Secret Language of Wishes).

Disaster Relief

by Kait Kerrigan
Directed by Stephen Brackett

Reading Saturday, January 26
By invitation only

Disaster Relief questions what it takes to move on as two survivors reconnect after traveling to the ends of the earth in an attempt to forget a trauma that will forever link them.

Kait Kerrigan will be a member of the 2013 Interstate 73 writers group. She is a Brooklyn-based playwright, lyricist, and bookwriter. In 2006 her musical Henry and Mudge, which went on to win her the Kleban Award for Most Promising Librettist, was presented by Theatreworks USA. Her work has been developed and performed internationally. Her plays include Disaster Relief, Imaginary Love, Transit and we have to hold hands. Her musicals, written with composer Brian Lowdermilk, include The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, Tales from the Bad Years, The Woman Upstairs, Wrong Number, The Freshman Experiment and the forthcoming Republic. Kerrigan is an alumna of Barnard College, and a member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and founding member of NewMusicalTheatre.com. For more information, visit www.kerrigan-lowdermilk.com.

The Building and Unbuilding of the Saxophone Sunset

by Mary Hamilton

Reading Monday, January 28
By invitation only

When Stanley learns that his only son has been accused of first degree manslaughter, he must decide whether to blindly defend his son or reveal details of his family’s past, risking his own incrimination.

Mary Hamilton was a member of the 2010-2011 Interstate 73 writers group and attended our 2011 retreat at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. She has developed plays in Iowa City, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York City. She is currently a member of EST’s Youngblood and New Georges’ The Jam. The recipient of the Iowa Provost’s Fellowship, she participated in the 2010 Unplugged Festival at American Theater Company, 2009 Play Penn conference, 2008 Wordbridge Playwriting Conference and 2002 Young Playwright’s Incorporated. Her work has been a finalist for the Yale Drama Series, Lark Pony Fellowship, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Humana Festival, the Princess Grace Award and Julliard.

Page 73 is proud to announce eight finalists for the 2013 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. This year Page 73 received applications for its development programs from a record-breaking 330 playwrights. These eight playwrights stood out among an impressive field due to their excellent applications and evident talent. We look forward to getting to know the work of each of these writers better!

Congratulations to:
George Brant
Meghan Deans
Nick Gandiello
David Jenkins
Meghan Kennedy
Kait Kerrigan
EM Lewis
Caroline V. McGraw

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

Page 73 invites you to join us for our last Interstate 73 Reading of the year!

Dunkfest ’88

A hip hop musical comedy
Book, beats and rhymes by Matt Schatz
directed by Wendy C. Goldberg

Tuesday, December 11
7:30pm
311 West 43rd Street, 8th floor (MTC Creative Center)

Tickets are free, but reservations are required by clicking here!

Welcome to Dunkfest ’88, an annual amateur basketball slam dunking competition! First prize is $10,000, and it promises to be one hell of a show. Unfortunately due to a violent rain storm, only three of our six competitors have shown up so far, and the rules state that there needs to be at least five for the contest to get underway. But don’t worry, our hilarious MC will keep things lively, and our sexy DJ has brought along the original cast recording of A Chorus Line, which she may just reinvent as exciting hip hop songs. Along the way, maybe we’ll even learn a little something about each of our dunkers and why they’re here. We’ll get to the high-flying action sooner or later, but we wouldn’t want to get started before legendary seventeen year-old dunker Marcus Franklin III shows up. He’s the one y’all braved the storm to see anyway. Isn’t he?

Matt Schatz won the 2012 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre. A playwright, librettist, lyricist and composer, his work includes the musical Love Trapezoid (Astoria Performing Arts Center), the play The Tallest Building in the World (Luna Stage), and the songs for Oh, Gastronomy! (36th Humana Festival). Matt was once a finalist, and twice a semi-finalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, he’s gotten three commissions from the EST/Sloan Project and has been a finalist for the Fred Ebb Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Songwriting (with composer Dina Pruzhansky). He’s a member of ASCAP, the BMI Workshop, the Dramatists Guild and EST. He watched his first NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 1989 and he hasn’t missed one since. mattschatz.com

Wendy C. Goldberg is in her ninth season as Artistic Director of The National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill, winner of the 2010 TONY Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. Recent Directing Credits include the world premiere of How We Got On at the Humana Festival and the world premiere of Lisa Loomer’s Two Things You Don’t Talk About at Dinner for Denver Center. Upcoming: the world premiere of Deb Laufer’s Leveling Up for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. All of these premieres were developed at The O’Neill. Multiple directing credits Off Broadway, at Arena Stage, Goodman, Guthrie, Denver Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Paper Mill Playhouse. She is currently developing a new musical with DC-based hip hop artists Psalm 24 and DJ Nick tha 1da. She is excited to be collaborating with Matt Schatz and Page 73. Wendy serves on the Executive Board of SDC.

In anticipation of the upcoming production of Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful at Second Stage (December – January — tickets here!), the New York Times published a lovely article about Quiara. Water is the second play in a trilogy that began with Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, which Quiara researched and wrote during her 2005 P73 Playwriting Fellowship, and which Page 73 premiered in 2006. That production was directed by Davis McCallum, who’s directing Water as well!

Read the Times article here!

Note: the planned 10/29/12 reading of Playgrounds was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy.

Page 73 invites you to join us for our next

Interstate 73 Reading of the year!

On Friday, November 16th, don’t miss our next reading from 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellow Max Posner!!

The Famished

by Max Posner
directed by Ken Rus Schmoll

Friday, November 16, 2:00PM and 7:00PM
MTC’s Creative Center
311 West 43rd Street (at 8^th Ave)
8th Floor

Stick around after the 7:00PM reading for a reception with the artists!

Anxiety floods the office as the Boss Man dictates layoffs and the break-room fridge overflows with leftovers of workers long gone. Rodney hangs himself in his office and Jefferson won’t leave the break room; Ryan’s avoiding his pregnant wife, and Rebecca’s surrounded by idiots. A comedy with sharp edges about fractured friendships and broken jobs, and all the nightmares, bedbugs, and hunger pangs that infest our workdays.

Want to come?  Email us at info@page73.org to let us know! Seating is limited, so we will confirm your seat via email as soon as we can.