Announcing 12 Semifinalists for the 2024 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship

the 12 semifinalists are 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.

The finalists and the Fellowship recipient will be announced in January 2024.

Now in its 21st 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 2023 Playwriting Fellow is Majkin Holmquist. Each Fellow receives an honorarium of $20,000, 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. 

In September, Page 73 announced that it is doubling the honorarium for its Playwriting Fellows, to $20,000; increasing the stipend for its Interstate 73 Writers, from $1,200 to $3,000;

JOSE SEBASTIAN ALBERDI

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

​​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

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

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

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

Forest Malley (not O’Malley– Malley is a fake last name and he's significantly less Irish than that) 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

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

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

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

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

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

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