Page 73 Workshops
Performance Department
by Scott R. Sheppard
Ready to experience a new voice in American theater?
At Page 73, our workshops offer a playwright dedicated time with professional artists to explore a script-in-process and hear their play read aloud in front of a live audience.
New Plays, Conversation, and Community
Starting this fall, Page 73’s free, public readings will each include a post-reading conversation with the playwright and a reception. Join us to get to know Page 73 and our playwrights better!
Experience Scripts In Process
from talented early-career playwrights.
with discussions about the playwright’s inspiration and script development journey.
Delve Deeper
with our community of
artists and theater lovers over
complimentary snacks and drinks.
Connect
Attending our readings makes you a vital collaborator for Page 73 as our playwrights learn from hearing their scripts in front of live audiences, often for the first time.
Reservations are required – and fill up quickly! Save your seat today for the freshest pages in the American theater.
Upcoming Readings
On October 3 and 4, Page 73 will present free readings of Jake Brasch’s Salutations, I’m Creative Dave (By Creative Dave), directed by Jess McLeod.
Thursday, October 3 at 7pm, and Friday, October 4 at 4pm
The Flea
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007
About the play: Creative Dave is not your average housekeeping robot—he’s an artist. In fact, he wrote this play! His dialogue may be catastrophically bad, but he has an essential message for his family. Written entirely from a robot’s skewed perspective, Salutations, I’m Creative Dave queers the American Family Drama into a batshit comedy about a robot who hates his family.
About the playwright: 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.
On October 16, Page 73 will present a free reading of Elinor T Vanderburg’s Deep Salmon, directed by Lisa Milinazzo.
Wednesday, October 16 at 7pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
Aibel Studio
520 8th Avenue, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10018
About the play: January Daley has returned home to bury both her father and her childhood. Her estranged brother August is back, too, and eldest sister May is just trying to pull off the funeral without digging up the past. With May’s cheeky teenager March in the mix, secrets start to surface, and Janney and August begin to see the past through new eyes – and rekindled hearts. But can they ever move forward if they’re not allowed to look back? And why is their dad’s home aide being so damn helpful?? And what the #&@$ is that smell coming from the fridge???
About the playwright: 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.
Past Readings
On June 13, 2024, Page 73 presented a free reading of Max Yu’s Made in Chinatown, directed by Jess McLeod.
Thursday, June 13 at 4pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
Haimes Studio
520 8th Avenue, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10018
About the play: In 1987, Ma is a recent immigrant working in a New York garment sweatshop. In 2022, Ma's son, Fei, is trying to convince her to move back to China. An intergenerational portrait of immigration in both directions, Made in Chinatown explores the push and pull of here and there, home and away.
About the playwright: Max Yu is a first-generation Chinese-American playwright from the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved from Shanghai and is now based in New York. His play Nightwatch won the 2019 Relentless Award, was a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, and was selected for the 2022 O’Neill Playwriting Conference. He is a current member of Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers’ Corner and the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He was a member of Page 73’s 2021-22 Writers Group. He is currently under commission from New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA), Atlantic Theater Company, and Shaking the Tree Theater. His plays that have been workshopped and developed include Wandering (New York Theatre Workshop), Call Me Comrade (Gingold Theatrical Group), Nightwatch (O'Neill, Goodman Theatre), Distance Abandoned (Second Generation Productions), Dragonfly (American Playwriting Foundation), The Edge (Shaking the Tree Theater), and Little Red (Horizon Theatre).
Max has taught playwriting at the National Theater Institute. His poetry and prose have been published in China in Spittoon and Babel. He is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment. He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied playwriting under Sylvan Oswald. You can find him at @maxyuliang and www.maxyu.carrd.co
On March 8, 2024, Page 73 presented a free reading of Audley Puglisi’s Lucky/Bird, directed by abigail jean-baptiste
Friday, March 8 at 4pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
Aibel Studio
520 8th Avenue, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10018
About the play: Louise Evans, a three-time widow, raises peacocks on her front porch. During the neighborhood's summer parade, Louise and her birds are visited by a mysterious young woman—is she a spirit? a figment of Louise’s imagination? A tight-knit community of Black folks grapple with their past.
About the playwright: Audley Puglisi is a playwright and poet. A member of the 2023 Page 73 Writers Group, Audley has received fellowships from VONA/Voices, Lambda Literary, The Playwrights Realm, Blue Mountain Center and has worked with St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre. Writings have been published in ColorBloq and Garage Magazine. Plays include the salt women, Two Sisters (Sip Fest @ The Wild Project); blues for miss lucille (Lorraine Hansberry Award, finalist), Home on High; and The Misplaced Saints. Audley is an M.F.A. Graduate from Yale School of Drama.
Audley received a NYSCA Individual Artist Commission for Lucky/Bird, sponsored by Page 73.