Announcing 3 Finalists for the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship
Selected from more than 300 applicants, the three finalists are Vichet Chum, Marvin González De León, and Majkin Holmquist.
The Fellowship recipient will be announced in January 2022.
Now in its 19th year, the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship is the company's most prestigious award, annually supporting a playwright who has yet to have a professional premiere in New York City. Past recipients include Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Heidi Schreck, and Obie winners Clare Barron and Kirsten Greenidge. The 2021 Playwriting Fellow is Bleu Beckford-Burrell. Each Fellow receives an honorarium of $10,000, and an additional $10,000 in development support from Page 73, which can be personalized to support the Fellow’s proposed project and can include such expenses as research, workshop and reading presentations, and fees for collaborating artists. Each Fellow works with Page 73 on at least one public presentation of the new play, including identifying artistic collaborators like directors, designers, and actors.
Vichet Chum
Vichet (he/him) is a Cambodian American theater maker living it up in NYC. He is the recipient of the 2021 Laurents/Hatcher Award and the 2018 Princess Grace Award. Vichet serves as a board member for the New Harmony Project, a curator for the Working Farm Residency with SPACE on Ryder Farm, a member of the Artistic Advisors Circle for Seattle Children’s Theatre and a steering committee member of Asian American Performers Action Coalition. He is currently a member of the Interstate 73 Writer's Group and the Ars Nova Play Group. In the 2022/23 season, his plays High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest will have its world premiere at the Alley Theatre and Bald Sisters will have its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville (BFA) and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company (MFA). He’s represented by Beth Blickers at APA. vichetchum.com
Marvin González De León
Marvin’s work has been produced and developed at Teatro Bravo, Arizona State University, Teatro del Pueblo, Texas State University, Round House Theatre, Page 73 Productions, The Playwrights Realm, and the Playwrights’ Center. He is currently a Jerome Fellow and Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, where he was previously a McKnight and Many Voices Fellow. He is a member of the 2020/2021 Interstate 73 Writers Group at Page 73 and was a Virtual Realm Mentee with The Playwrights Realm. marvingonzalezdeleon.com.
Majkin Holmquist
Majkin is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas. Her plays include Tent Revival, Every Anne Frank, Stargazers, Skinflint, The Dog Pack Play, The Quonsets (co-written with Alex Lubischer) and Quickmatch. Her work has been developed at the Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Stage & Film and Bay Street Theater. Currently, she is a Lecturer of Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and a member of Midnight Oil Collective. She holds a BA in Secondary English Education from Bethany College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. www.majkin.com
