Meet the 2023 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow
We are thrilled to announce our 2023 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow!
Majkin Holmquist
We are proud to name Majkin Holmquist the 2023 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. Majkin is the 20th Fellow in Page 73's history, and will receive a $10,000 award and an additional $10,000 budgeted for developing several new plays over the course of the year.
From Artistic Director Michael Walkup:
“Majkin writes plays that are at once expansive and intimate, propelled by a deep compassion for character and an indelible sense of place. Frequently set in her native rural Kansas, her plays capture the possibility of mystery, or even mysticism, pressing in from dark edges just out of sight, acting upon her characters as they search, mourn, pray, and grow.”
MAJKIN HOLMQUIST is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. In January of 2023, her play Tent Revival will be produced by Paula Vogel’s Bard at the Gate series in partnership with the McCarter Theatre Center. Other plays include Stargazers, Every Anne Frank, Quickmatch, The Dog Pack Play, and Skinflint. Credits include The Quonsets (co-written with Alex Lubischer, Yale Cabaret), Broken Melodies (WVIT Women in Theatre Festival), and Styx Songs (contributing writer, Yale Cabaret). Her work has been developed at New York Stage and Film, Woodshed Collective, Bay Street Theatre, Page 73, Ucross, and Roundabout Theatre Company. She has been a finalist for Colt Coeur, the Pacific Playwright’s Festival, and PlayPenn. She is currently a member of Midnight Oil Collective and Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group, and is a Lecturer in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She holds a BA in Secondary English Education from Bethany College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
Majkin was selected via Page 73’s annual Development Programs Application. Page 73 partners with Beehive Dramaturgy Studio on our annual selection process. Beehive selects and manages the talented, paid industry evaluators who help Page 73 read the early rounds of our application process each year.
