Announcing the 2022 Writing Retreats
Back by popular demand, our Individual Writing Retreats program returns for 2022! This summer, Page 73 is offering four more playwrights the opportunity to design their own professional writer’s retreat, tailored to each of their individual needs and preferences.
These week-long self-directed retreats include housing and travel expenses, food, and an additional $1,000 stipend paid by Page 73.
The participating playwrights, Vichet Chum, Marvin González De León, Majkin Holmquist, and April Ranger, will have regular check-ins with the Page 73 artistic team and document moments of their trip to share upon their return.
Page 73 will then bring the playwrights together to recount their writing experiences, with Page 73 Artistic Director Michael Walkup and Page 73 Associate Producer Kari Olmon.
Vichet Chum (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 writes plays that incorporate a myriad of genres—from sci-fi to horror—anchored in the traditions of Latin American literature. His 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 was a member of the 2020/2021 Interstate 73 Writers Group at Page 73 and was a Virtual Realm Mentee with The Playwrights Realm. He received his MFA in Dramatic Writing in 2017 at Arizona State University and teaches playwriting at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. marvingonzalezdeleon.com
Majkin Holmquist 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
April Ranger is a poet and playwright from Maine. Her play Bathsheba’s Psalms, Or A Woman of Unusual Beauty Taking A Bath (Dir. Christina Roussos) premiered at The Tank in 2019, after workshops with Fault Line Theatre and Pegasus PlayLab. Her plays have been performed at The Public Theatre, Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, The Wild Project and The New Ohio Theatre. She received her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College in 2018, where she currently teaches. www.aprilranger.com
