Meet the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow
We are thrilled to announce our 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow!
Marvin González De León
We are proud to name Marvin González De León the 2022 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. Marvin 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:
"We're proud to advocate for Marvin's artistry and career by naming him the 2022 Fellow. Marvin was a member of our 2020-21 Interstate 73 writers group and we had the privilege of getting to know him and his work in that intimate setting. We're ardent fans of his writing and have been delighted by the breadth of styles and theatrical approaches he's been experimenting with. He's passionate about what he wants his plays to be and his body of work offers an expansive vision for staging Latinx stories within the American theater."
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
We are also delighted to announce 2 Fellows in 2022
For the second time, Page 73 is doubling the Fellowship program, and 2021 Fellow Bleu Beckford-Burrell will continue into a second year with an additional $10,000 cash award. Both Bleu and Marvin will be able to put their development budgets toward in-person collaborations this year.
The value of getting in a room with a director and professional actors is one of the core opportunities of the Fellowship, and we’re not going to call it complete until all our Fellows have had that opportunity.
—Michael Walkup, Artistic Director
Marvin was selected via Page 73’s annual Development Programs Application. We received over 400 applications in 2022. 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.
