JANINE NABERS (2011). Her plays include Annie Bosh Is Missing (2011 Sundance Theater Lab / Playwrights Horizons and Clubbed Thumb SuperLab), A Swell in the Ground (Page 73), When the Levee Broke (Workshop Theater Company), Juniper; Jubilee (Samuel French Festival Winner 08), West of the Willow Tree (Winner of the 2009 New Professional Theater Award and 2008 Princess Grace Finalist) and Generation Graffiti (Samuel French Festival finalist 09). Janine is currently a member of MCC Playwrights Coalition and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group. She is an alumna of Ars Nova, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and The Dramatist Guild playwriting Fellowship. Most recent work: Decade at London’s Headlong Theatre and the musical A Beautiful Something recently developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival (music/lyrics by Sharon Kenny). Janine is currently working on commissions from Playwrights Horizons and The Keen Company. She recently became a Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting fellow at Juilliard.

ELIZA CLARK (2010) has had plays developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre, Page 73 Productions, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Provincetown Playhouse, The New York International Fringe Festival, and Yale University. She received a commission from the Yale O’Neill Studio in 2006 and is currently working on a commission from South Coast Repertory. Eli was a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s emerging writers group, Youngblood. She was the 2010 P73 Playwriting Fellow. Her play Edgewise was co-produced by Page 73 and The Play Company in November-December of 2010. Eli graduated from Yale University in 2007 and is currently living in Los Angeles where she wrote for Season One of AMC’s Rubicon, and is developing a pilot for Teen Nick.

HEIDI SCHRECK (2009) is a playwright and OBIE-winning actor whose plays include Creature, Backwards into China, Stray, Mister Universe, Memorial Day, and Spirit Lake. Her work has been produced or developed by Soho Rep, Vineyard Theatre, New Georges, The Foundry, Printer’s Devil, On the Boards, FronteraFest, the UNO Festival, Consolidated Works, and National Public Radio. She was a member of the 2006 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and is an affiliated artist with the OBIE-winning companies New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, and Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf. She has been a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Her play Stray was published in The Manifesto Series, an anthology of new work edited by Erik Ehn, and her plays Backwards into China and Memorial Day are published through Rain City Projects. Heidi writes about new plays for The Brooklyn Rail and worked as a journalist in Russia in the late 1990s. Her newest play There Are No More Big Secrets is partially inspired by the years she spent working in Siberia and St. Petersburg.  As an actor, Heidi has worked with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Clubbed Thumb, The Empty Space, The Foundry, MCC, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, PS 122, New Dramatists, Printer’s Devil (founding member), Soho Rep, SPF, Sundance Theatre Lab, and others. She was named one of Time Out New York’s favorite actors in 2007, and in 2008 she received an OBIE for her work as an actor in Two-Headed Calf’s Drum of the Waves of Horikawa at HERE Arts Center. Heidi lives in Brooklyn with her husband Kip Fagan.

TOMMY SMITH (2008) is a New York-based playwright. His plays include Sextet (Washington Ensemble Theatre; Roger Benington, director), The Wife (IRT Theater; May Adrales, director), White Hot (produced at HERE Arts Center; May Adrales, director), PTSD (Ensemble Studio Theatre; Billy Carden, director), The Break-Up (produced at Flea Theater; Sherri Kronfeld, director), Beautiful Night (commissioned by E.S.T.; Evan Cabnet, director), Air Conditioning (selected for Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference; Steve Cosson, director), Goodnight Mecca (produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Gabriel Kahane, composer & lyricist; Kip Fagan, director), among others. His work has also appeared at PS 122, Yale Cabaret, The Ontological Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, A Contemporary Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, The Huntington Theatre; internationally, he has been produced in Prague, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Montreal, and Athens. He is a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize, a recipient of the E.S.T. Sloan Grant, a winner of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. Publications include White Hot in the 2008 New York Theatre Review and Streak in Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays, printed by Vintage. He is a graduate of the playwriting program at The Juilliard School, and serves as Artistic Associate for The Cape Cod Theatre Project. Tommy co-created (with Reggie Watts) the theatre piece Disinformation, which played at the Under The Radar Theatre Festival at The Public Theatre, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh) and ICA (Boston). Tommy won the MAP Fund Award and Creative Capital Award for their follow-up show Transition, which played at the PICA: TBA Festival, Under The Radar, and On The Boards. Their collaboration Radio Play played at PS122 in May 2011). Other collaborations include Occurrence (Galapagos, The Tank, Ars Nova, Portland’s Leftbank, ICA) and Dutch A/V (IRT Theater).

Krista Knight (2007) has had plays produced produced by The Ontological Hysteric Theater, Walden Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Brown University, LiveGirls!, Harvest Theatre, Goshen College, The Attic Theatre, The New Perspective Festival, The Pan Theatre, and The Bus Barn Stage Company among others. Commissions include The Assembly, Livegirls!, The Berkeley Rep Theatre School, and Class Act. Krista has been in Residence at Tofte Lake, New York Mills, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Interplay in Australia, UCROSS, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Yaddo, and MacDowell.

Her first musical Salamander Leviathan won the 2011 KCACTF Musical Theater Award from the Kennedy Center. It will be part of Ant Fest at Ars Nova on Halloween and will be developed by the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis in June 2012.

2007 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. 2011-2012 Shank Playwriting Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre. BA: Brown University. MA: Performance Studies from NYU. MFA Playwriting: UC San Diego. www.KristaKnight.com

JASON GROTE (2006) was Page 73′s 2006 P73 Playwriting Fellow, where he worked on his plays 1001 and This Storm Is What We Call Progress. Page 73′s New York Premiere of 1001 was listed in Time Out New York‘s Top Ten for 2007. The play has had a total of eleven productions throughout the United States, receiving such honors as Best New Play from Denver’s alternative weekly Westword; critics’ top ten lists in The Rocky Mountain News and The Boulder Daily Camera; and Best Performance nominee from L.A. Weekly. The Washington, DC production of 1001 was featured by Voice of America in a Farsi-language segment broadcast into Iran. The play is published by Samuel French, and Jason is currently working on a musical adaptation of the play with Marisa Michelson in Montclair State University’s New Works Initiative. Jason’s play Civilization (all you can eat) will be performed at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks 2011, directed by Page 73 writer Seth Bockley. Jason’s other plays include Maria/Stuart, Hamilton Township, Box Americana, Darwin’s Challenge, and Half-Moon Mirror. He has received commissions from The Denver Center, ACT/Seattle, Clubbed Thumb, The Working Theater, and The Keen Company, and he has been published by Samuel French and Playscripts, and in The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005 (edited by Craig Lucas). Other honors include Best Performance of 2008 from The Austin Chronicle (for Hamilton Township) and Best of Fringe 2009 from The Seattle Times (for Maria/Stuart). He wrote the screenplay for What We Got: DJ Spooky’s Quest for The Commons and was the co-host of “The Acousmatic Theater Hour “on WFMU for one year. He has created devised theater with David Levine, Radiohole, Maureen Towey, and Karinne Keithley, and is currently developing a live radio play to coincide with the Tim Burton retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art. He is a member of PEN and New Dramatists; visit him at www.jasongrote.com

QUIARA ALEGRÍ­A HUDES (2005) Broadway: In the Heights (book, 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony nomination for Best Book, Pulitzer Finalist).  Off-Broadway: In the Heights (Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award). Off-off: Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (Pulitzer Finalist).  Regional: 26 Miles (Alliance Theatre), Barrio Grrrl! (book and lyrics, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).  National tours: In the Heights and Barrio Grrrl! Workshops: Water By the Spoonful (Hartford Stage), Like Water for Chocolate (book, Sundance at White Oak Project). Film and TV: In the Heights (screenplay, Universal Pictures), Untitled Quiara Hudes Project (sitcom, NBC).  B.A. from Yale, M.F.A. from Brown, resident writer at New Dramatists.  Mentor and Board Member for Philadelphia Young Playwrights, who produced her first play in the tenth grade.

KIRSTEN GREENIDGE (2004) had the world premiere of her play Bossa Nova at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2010. Her play Rust was produced by the Magic Theater in 2007. Kirsten was the playwright-in-residence at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company as part of the NEA/ TCG Theatre Residency Grant where she worked on her play The Curious Walk of the Salamander. Kirsten’s work includes Proclivities, At Sunday Dinner and The Interpretation of Being, 103 Within The Veil: A Theatrical Collage, (2005 Independent Reviewers of New England Award for Best New Play), The Gibson Girl; Hinges Keep A City: Neighborhood Stories, Sans-Culottes In The Promised Land, Fast and Loose: An Ethical Collaboration, Familiar (winner of the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Award), and Devil Must Be Deep. She has enjoyed development experiences at Magic Theatre, Page 73, Madison Rep, Hourglass Theatre, Playwright’s Horizons, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Sundance at Ucross, New Dramatists, and The O’Neill. Kirsten is also working on commissions with CompanyOne, Cardinal Stage, South Coast Rep, and the Kennedy Center/White House Historical Society. Kirsten attended Wesleyan University and The Playwright’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, and is a member of New Dramatists.