Writers Group
The 2017 Writers Group at the Page 73 office
Our theater opens its doors to talented playwrights who have a story to tell, subsequently opening the doors of the larger theater community, and preparing them for the opportunities we hope will come their way. Writers Group members meet at the Page 73 offices twice a month to share their newest pages and discuss their work with their peers and Page 73’s Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director. Every member receives a stipend.
Announcing our 2024 Writers Group
jose sebastian alberdi is a New York-based Mexican-Basque-American playwright originally from California. sebastian was a 2023 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference playwright with his play bogfriends and has developed work with The Orchard Project, the Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage, Exquisite Corpse Company, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, Fresh Ink Theatre, and Teatro Chelsea. MFA from New York University, BA from Northeastern University. josesebastianalberdi.com
Calley N. Anderson (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Memphis, TN. Past and current affiliations include the National Black Theatre I AM SOUL Playwright Residency, American Theatre Group BIPOC PlayLab, SPACE on Ryder Farm (2023), Liberation Theatre Company Writing Residency Program (2022-23), MacDowell (2022), Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group (2021-22), The Civilians R&D Group (2021-22), and Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows (2020-21) BA: Davidson College | MFA: New School for Drama. calleynanderson.com
Jake Brasch (he/they) is a queer, sober, Jewish Coloradan clown and a playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School. Their work has been developed by New York Stage & Film, The Denver Center Theatre Company, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, LAByrinth Theatre Company, and others. He’s a proud graduate of EST/Youngblood and a 2023/2024 Alliance/Kendeda Finalist. Jake moonlights as a pianist/composer and performs as a birthday party clown throughout the New York Area. BFA: NYU-Tisch/New Studio/Experimental Theatre Wing. jakebrasch.com.
Garrett David Kim (he/him) is a theater-maker and educator based in New York City. His play Are You There Truman? (Leviathan Lab/EAG, Pride Plays/Rattlestick, Piper Theatre) won the 2021 Barbour Award. His plays Kim’s Fine Food (Blue Ink Playwriting Award Finalist), Belligerency, and Deliver Us are part of a cycle chronicling his Korean-American family’s 100+ history in the USA. Resident Artist with Ars Nova (Play Group). Program Director at The 52nd Street Project. B.A. Fordham University. garrettdavidkim.com
Forest Malley is a Brooklyn-based playwright, poet and performer from a notoriously witchy town in Massachusetts. His work explores memory, migration, queerness, God (or the lack thereof), divas, and his Middle Eastern heritage. He was one of seven winners of the 2022 Theater Masters short play festival and a finalist for the 2023 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference for his play Gidou. Forest recently received his M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and received his B.A. from Harvard University in 2020 in the study of the history and literature of the Arab world.
Genevieve Simon (they/them) centers nonbinary people in magical worlds at the intersection of family, queer identity, and water. Genevieve is a 2023-24 New Georges Audrey Resident and their climate-doom-comedy BLOOM BLOOM POW was a Finalist for the 2022 EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival. Genevieve’s work has been supported by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Puffin Foundation, The Brick, Shadowland Stages, The Parsnip Ship, The Tank, Arts on Site, NYSCA, Holton-Arms School, and Cincinnati Fringe Festival. www.genevieve-simon.com
May Treuhaft-Ali is a playwright, director, and dramaturg. Her play ABCD had its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in July 2022, and her play Escapegoat had a workshop production at Boston Court Pasadena later that year. Her plays have been developed at Clubbed Thumb, The Playwrights Realm, Ars Nova, The Movement Theatre Company, MCC Theater, the Cape Cod Theatre Project, and Rattlestick Theater. She is under commission at Barrington Stage and South Coast Repertory.
Elinor T Vanderburg writes plays for and about misfits, creating troubled chimerical landscapes populated by dark-humored antiheroes. She is a co-creative director of Fresh Ground Pepper and one half of the illusory theater company, underlords, alongside her partner, Drew. Elinor has recently written and developed work with SheNYC Arts, Exquisite Corpse Company, and The Actor’s Studio. Born in DC, Elinor lives and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn with Drew, their children, Zara and Raffi, and their two calicos, Poppy and Mirri. underlords.org
Page 73 Writers Group Participants
2023
Lucas Baisch
Majkin Holmquist
Mary Kamitaki
Shayan Lofti
Naomi Lorrain
Charlie Oh
Audley Puglisi
Nia Akilah Robinson
2021-22
Heidi Armbruster
Jahna Ferron-Smith
Dylan Guerra
Roger Q. Mason
April Ranger
Scott R. Sheppard
juliany taveras
Max Yu
2020-21
Bleu Beckford-Burrell
Vichet Chum
Tyler English-Beckwith
Emma Goidel
Marvin González De León
Morgan Gould
Emily Gardner Xu Hall
Haygen-Brice Walker
2019
Will Arbery
Gina Femia
Zora Howard
Jessica Huang
Stefani Kuo
Kareem M. Lucas
Genne Murphy
juliany taveras
2018
Eleanor Burgess
Emily Feldman
Amina Henry
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Daniel K. Isaac
Michael R. Jackson
Gordon Leary
Julia Meinwald
Gary Winter
2017
John J. Caswell, Jr.
Cat Crowley
Keelay Gipson
Haruna Lee
Molly Beach Murphy
Gabrielle Reisman
Sarah Sander
Susan Soon He Stanton
2016
Kevin Artigue
Kate Attwell
Alex Lubischer
Amina Henry
Caroline V. McGraw
Jiehae Park
Jeremy Tiang
2015
Greg Beam
Steve DiUbaldo
Jerry Lieblich
Brian Otaño
Gabrielle Reisman
Tracy Thorne
Mfoniso Udofia
2014
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Sarah Gancher
Nick Gandiello
Kevin Kautzman
Becca Schlossberg
Emily Schwend
2013
Stephen Brown
Meghan Deans
Peter Gil-Sheridan
David Jenkins
Kait Kerrigan
EM Lewis
Caroline V. McGraw
2011/2012
Amy Evans
Meghan Kennedy
Krista Knight
Scott Organ
Jason Gray Platt
Max Posner
Harrison David Rivers
Sarah Sander
Matt Schatz
2010/2011
Robert Askins
Madeline George
Mary Hamilton
Greg Keller
Michael Mitnick
Megan Mostyn-Brown
Richard Toth
2009/2010
Aaron Landsman
Alex Lewin
Heather Lynn MacDonald
Sam Marks
Sylvan Oswald
Emily Schwend
2008/2009
Eliza Clark
Sarah Hammond
Josh Malmuth
Molly Rice
Matt Schatz
Tommy Smith
Cori Thomas
2007/2008
Andy Bragen
Kara Lee Corthron
J. Holtham
Krista Knight
Kenneth Lin
Kristen Palmer