Page 73 Announces Heidi Schreck Receives P73 Fellowship

Page 73 proudly announces that Heidi Schreck is the recipient of the 2008 P73 Playwriting Fellowship. As part of her fellowship year, For her fellowship year, Heidi will be working on a new play inspired by her own experience as a reporter in Siberia and St. Petersburg; this new play questions the limits of friendship and explores the mythic power still ascribed to the relationship between t he United States and Russia.

Launched in 2003 and awarded each year to an early-career playwright who has not received wide public recognition or production opportunities in New York City, the P73 Playwriting Fellowship provides year-long development support toone early-career playwright annually. In addition, the recipient of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship receives a cash prize of $5,000. Past recipients of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship are Kirsten Greenidge, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Jason Grote, Krista Knight and Tommy Smith. Quiara Alegría Hudes's Elliot, A Soldier'ss Fugue, which was developed as part of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship in 2005 and produced by Page 73 in 2006, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama in 2007. Jason Grote's 1001, which was developed in part with the support of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and produced in 2006 by Page 73 under the direction of Ethan McSweeny, recently appeared on Time Out New York's "Top Ten Theater List for 2007".

HEIDI SCHRECK 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 T heatre 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.

PAGE 73 (Producer) (Liz Jones & Asher Richelli, Executive Directors) develops and produces the work of early-career playwrights who have yet to receive substantial production opportunities in New York. Page 73 produces one New York or world premiere by an early-career p laywright each year. In addition, Page 73 offers production-oriented development opportunities that help usher the20works of early-career playwrights from first draft to final script. Page 73 awards the P73 Playwriting Fellowship each year to one untried playwright; during that year, the company serves as that fellow's artistic home and offers a cash grant and development support to the writer. Past fellows are Kirsten Greenidge, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Jason Grote, Krista Knight and Tommy Smith. The current fellow is Heidi Schreck. Page 73 also hosts a year-long writing group called "Interstate 73? (current members - Sarah Hammond, Josh Malmuth, Molly Rice, Matt Schatz, Tommy Smith and Cori Thomas) and a week-long summer residency at Yale for 4 to 5 early-career playwrights. Page 73 developed and produced the world premiere of Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue by Quiara Alegria Hudes (2007 Pulitzer finalist) and the New York premiere of 1001 by Jason Grote (Time Out New York - Top 10 of 2007). The company received from the League of Professional Theatre Women their 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for "innovative and creative work to emerging dramatists". Page 73 is currently presenting the world premiere of Sixty Miles to Silver Lake by Dan LeFranc d irected by Anne Kauffman with Soho Rep; performances begin January 15. Visit www.p73.org.