Page 73 Reveals Semifinalists For 2024 Playwriting Fellowship

Page 73, the acclaimed organization that develops and produces the work of early-career playwrights who have yet to receive a professional production in New York City, announces 12 semifinalists for the 2024 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Semifinalists in the running for Page 73's most prestigious award include jose sebastian alberdi, Calley N. Anderson, Brysen Boyd, Jake Brasch, Garrett David Kim, Forest Malley, Ankita Raturi, Stacey Rose, Genevieve Simon, Marissa Joyce Stamps, May Treuhaft-Ali, and Elinor T Vanderburg.

 

It is a momentous year for investing in playwrights as Page 73 will be increasing honorariums for Interstate 73 writers group members and the annual Fellow. The playwright selected as the organization's 2024 Fellow will receive $20,000 (last year the award was $10,000) —which is awarded in addition to a public workshop and a $10,000 discretionary budget for the Fellow to direct towards developing further work through travel, research, workshops, and relationship-building. Playwrights in the annual Interstate 73 writing group—where writers meet 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—will now receive a stipend of $3,000 each (previously $1,200). In December 2023, Page 73 will announce Fellowship finalists and in January 2024, the organization will announce its 2024 Fellow, alongside members of the 2024 Interstate 73 writers group.

 

The Fellowship, annually supporting a playwright who has yet to have a professional premiere in New York City, was awarded to Majkin Holmquist in 2023. Previous Fellows include Marvin González De León (2022) Bleu Beckford-Burrell (2021), Emma Goidel (2020), Sanaz Toossi (2019), C.A. Johnson (2018), John J. Caswell, Jr. (2017), Hansol Jung (2016), Nick Gandiello (2015), Clare Barron (2014), Caroline V. McGraw (2013), Max Posner (2012), Janine Nabers (2011), Eliza Clark (2010), Heidi Schreck (2009), Tommy Smith (2008), Krista Knight (2007), Jason Grote (2006), Quiara Alegría Hudes (2005), and Kirsten Greenidge (2004).

 

Spotlighting the Playwriting Fellowship's capacity to launch the careers of groundbreaking artists, on November 10 at 8:00pm at The Shed, Page 73 will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a one-night-only reading of Clare Barron's You Got Older, featuring the original cast of the organization's 2014 world premiere production: Reed Birney, Brooke Bloom, William Jackson Harper, Keilly McQuail Michael Schantz, Ted Schneider, and Miriam Silverman You Got Older was written while Barron was the 2014 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. The production garnered 2015 OBIE Awards for Barron, cast member Brooke Bloom, and director Anne Kauffman, as well as four 2015 Drama Desk Award nominations, and vast critical praise.

 

About the Semifinalists

 

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

 

Brysen Boyd is playwright, TV writer, and essayist originally from Tacoma, WA. He served on the writing staff for HBO's Succession (in a position created for him), is a 2023 Artist-in-Residence at Williamstown Theater Festival, the inaugural Playwright-in-Residence at Reverie Theater Company and is a proud member of Youngblood/Ensemble Studio Theater. Having come to playwriting and creative nonfiction in undergrad by way of his first love, TV, his goal in life is to write stories that make others feel as excited as 9-year-old him felt when watching David and Keith on Six Feet Under. Writing means everything to him—second only to his miniature wiener dogs, Simon and Alvin. B.A., Boston College  MFA., Columbia University brysenboyd.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.

 

Ankita Raturi (she/her) is a currently Queens-based writer and teaching artist who creates hyper-theatrical works in multiple languages. She grew up in Capital Cities, pediatric gastroenterology offices, and the bisexual closet. Ankita has developed new plays at South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Realm, Cygnet Theatre, Artists at Play, The COOP, Atlantic Pacific Theatre, Theater Masters, Hypokrit Theatre Company, New York Shakespeare Exchange, Pete's Candy Store, and Natyabharati. 2022 Ollie Award Winner. BFA: NYU / MFA: UCSD.

 

Stacey Rose hails from Elizabeth, NJ and Charlotte NC respectively. She is a writer for stage, television, and film. Her theatrical work has been presented at: The Fire This Time Festival, The Lark,  National Black Theatre, Pillsbury House Theater, Barrington Stage Company, and Kansas City Rep. Stacey has held fellowships/residencies with The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights' Center, Sundance Theatre Lab, and The Goodman Theatre. She has had three plays featured on the Kilroys list.  Stacey is a recipient of a 2019 Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Women's Commissioning Grant in partnership with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Stacey's work celebrates and explores Blackness, Black identity, Black history, body politics, and the dilemma of life as the “other.”

 

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

 

Marissa Joyce Stamps is a Black, Haitian-American, NYC-based Afrosurreal artist. She won the 2023 Princess Grace Playwriting Award, is a member of Clubbed Thumb's 2023-2024 ECWG, a Mercury Store Fall 2023 Lead Artist, a New Georges Affiliate Artist, + was named a Finalist for NBT's 2023 I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency. Recent: …Twisted Juniper (2022 O'Neill Finalist, Chautauqua NPW 2021), Being Up in Here… (Exponential Festival 2024), Blue Fire…(Exponential 2022; Orchard Project 2021), Letiche… (Bushwick Starr SRS 2023), deadbodydeadbodydeadbody (ANT Fest 2022). Marissa's collaborated with The Public, 24 Hour Plays, Fire This Time, Conch Shell Productions, BUFU, and more. She's The Workshop Theater's Literary Manager. MFA: Brooklyn College. marissajoycestamps.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 child, Zara, and their two calicos, Poppy and Mirri. underlords.org

 

About Page 73

 

Since its founding in 1997, Page 73 has unwaveringly focused on nurturing early-career playwrights and expanding the theatrical canon. The organization has consistently sought to open new pathways to recognition for fresh, urgent, and daring voices, in part by mounting works solely by writers who have not yet had a New York City premiere Off-Broadway. In 2020, the organization was honored with an institutional Obie Award “for providing extraordinary support for early career playwrights.”

 

Page 73 has become renowned for introducing playwrights with a distinct approach to theatricality and language into the larger theatrical ecosystem. Page 73 offers writers career guidance, financial assistance, and development opportunities through programs including the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, the Interstate 73 Writers Group, and the Page 73 Summer Residency. The organization helps playwrights move their work toward premiere, in Page 73's own presentations or co-presentations with partner institutions, or by connecting writers to available opportunities at colleague theaters. Playwrights leave Page 73's programs having meticulously honed their crafts, formed kinetic new collaborative relationships, and been equipped to flourish as empowered, self-assured artists.

 

Page 73 developed and, with Playwrights Horizons, produced the world premiere of Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop, which won dozens of prestigious awards including the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and, upon being produced on Broadway, received Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical for Michael R. Jackson. Among Page 73's many other celebrated world and New York premieres are Zora Howard's STEW (named a Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Mia Chung's Catch as Catch Can, Leah Nanako Winkler's Kentucky, Max Posner's Judy, Clare Barron's You Got Older, George Brant's Grounded, and Susan Soon He Stanton's Today Is My Birthday. Diversifying the American theater and making space for voices theater audiences have not yet heard is at the core of Page 73's ethos. Page 73 has co-produced with eminent new play theaters including Soho Rep., Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. The organization produced the professional New York City debuts of Samuel D. Hunter (2015 MacArthur Fellow), Quiara Alegría Hudes (2012 Pulitzer Prize winner), Dan LeFranc (2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award recipient), Heidi Schreck (2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee), and Clare Barron (2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist). Close to two-thirds of the over 140 playwrights supported by the organization have subsequently received New York or regional theater productions, and the number grows each season.

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