Announcing the 4 Finalists for the 2023 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship
our 2023 fellow will be the 20th named in our history! THE FOUR finalists are Lucas Baisch, Majkin Holmquist, Audley Puglisi, and benjamin benne.
The finalists and the Fellowship recipient will be announced in January 2023.
Now in its 20th 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 2022 Playwriting Fellow is Marvin González De León. 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.
LUCAS BAISCH
Lucas is from San Francisco. Select plays include REFRIGERATOR (First Floor Theatre), On the Y-Axis (The Bushwick Starr Reading Series), Dry Swallow (Brown University), import speech_memory (Cutting Ball’s Variety Pack Festival), and 404 Not Found (2022 O'Neill NPC Finalist). Lucas is a recipient of a Steinberg Playwright Award, the Princess Grace Award, The Kennedy Center’s KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, and a Jerome Fellowship. His plays have been published through Methuen/Bloomsbury and Yale’s Theater Magazine. His artwork has been presented at Elsewhere Museum, the Electronic Literature Organization, gallery no one, and the RISD Museum. MFA: Brown University. www.lucasbaisch.com
MAJKIN HOLMQUIST
Majkin is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. Her plays include Every Anne Frank, Quickmatch, The Dog Pack Play, Stargazers, and Skinflint. Her play Tent Revival will be produced by the Bard at the Gate series through McCarter Theatre Center. In addition, 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 the P73 Playwright’s Fellowship, Colt Coeur, the Pacific Playwright’s Festival, and PlayPenn. She is currently a member of Midnight Oil Collective and a Lecturer in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
AUDLEY PUGLISI
Audley is a playwright and poet. 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 a recent M.F.A. Graduate from the Yale School of Drama.
BENJAMIN BENNE
Benjamin’s plays include Alma (National Latinx Playwriting Award & Blue Ink Playwriting Award; WP: Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in cooperation with American Blues Theater; ArtsWest; forthcoming: Curious Theatre & Central Square) and In His Hands (KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award & Clauder Competition Gold Prize; WP: Mosaic Theatre Company). He’s a Primary Stages’ DSNAWG member& Playwrights’ Center Affiliated Writer. Commissions: South Coast Rep & Seattle Rep. MFA: David Geffen/Yale School of Drama. www.benjaminbenne.com
