Page 73 Workshops
Performance Department
by Scott R. Sheppard
Ready to experience a new voice in American theater?
At Page 73, our workshops offer a playwright dedicated time with professional artists to explore a script-in-process and hear their play read aloud in front of a live audience.
New Plays, Conversation, and Community
Page 73’s free, public readings each include a post-reading conversation with the playwright and a reception. Join us to get to know Page 73 and our playwrights better.
Experience Scripts In Process
from talented early-career playwrights.
with discussions about the playwright’s inspiration and script development journey.
Delve Deeper
with our community of
artists and theater lovers over
complimentary snacks and drinks.
Connect
Attending our readings makes you a vital collaborator for Page 73 as our playwrights learn from hearing their scripts in front of live audiences, often for the first time.
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Upcoming Readings
On June 4, 2026, Page 73 will present a free reading of Lori Felipe-Barkin’s The Ayahuasca Play, directed by Sarah Blush, in collaboration with Fault Line Theatre as part of their Irons in the Fire reading series.
Thursday, June 4 at 3:30pm
Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
304 W. 47th Street
New York, NY 10036
About the play: Dr. Nolan has been gone for one year and K'uychi Allpa, a Kichwa community in the Amazon rainforest, is struggling to stay afloat. Rudy, a U.S. veteran turns to Ayahuasca as his last resort and Shae, an ex-evangelical-turned-devout psychonaut, is filling the void Dr. Nolan left as well as healing the one inside of her. The Ayahuasca Play is a trilingual (English, Spanish, & Kichwa) theatrical piece that explores the complexities around Ayahuasca tourism in which themes of spiritual hunger in the 21st century, globalization, and the porous lines between exploitation and spiritual elevation collide.
About the playwright: Lori Felipe-Barkin (she/her) is a bilingual (English & Spanish) playwright, performer, and voiceover artist based out of NYC and Miami. She is the 2025 Page 73 writing fellow and 2026 NYSCA grantee. Her plays include Flor Underwater, Ama. Egg. Oyá., and The Peepholeman. Her work has been selected to be read at Play Penn, Iati Theater, INTAR Theater, Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla, and BAM Fischer Theater. She has been a finalist for the 2023 Risk Theatre Award, the 2023 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition, and the 2024 Royer Award. She also received an honorable Mention for the 2021Terrence McNally Award. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College.
About Fault Line Theatre: Fault Line Theatre creates, develops, and produces socially relevant, character-driven plays for today’s audiences. You can learn more about their work here.
On June 10-11, 2026, Page 73 will present free readings of Scott R. Sheppard’s Performance Department, directed by Annie Tippe.
Wednesday, June 10 at 7pm and Thursday, June 11 at 3pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
About the play: Performance Department is a satirical horror about a struggling liberal arts college that is swept into a pageantry of virtue signaling around one black student’s incendiary thesis project. While the Development Office launches quixotic fundraising ploys to meet Annual Fund goals, the professors strategize to discreetly sabotage their “problem student.” As despair grows about whether the university has any lasting power in today's America, a terrifying affliction begins to spread from the thesis project. Soon new monsters stalk the grounds on Alumni Weekend. Will this two-hundred year old institution be saved, or will the sins from its past rise up from within and usher it towards a grisly demise?
About the playwright: Scott R. Sheppard (he/him) is a playwright, performer, and founding Co-artistic Director of theater company Lightning Rod Special. He is the co-creator and performer of Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova), which won an Obie Award for Best New American Theatre Work (2017), an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, an Edinburgh Stage Award, and was named one of the 25 best plays of the past 25 years by The New York Times. Sheppard was a 2024 finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and semifinalist for the 2024 Terrence McNally Award with Performance Department. He was a lead writer/performer in Lightning Rod Special’s The Appointment (Best Theater of 2023 in The New Yorker and Best of 2019 in Time Out New York and New York Magazine, The New York Times Critics’ Pick). Other credits include: co-writer of Lions (Steinberg/ATCA New Play Finalist), Nosejob (2024 semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference) and lead writer/performer of SPEECH with Shayok Misha Chowdhury, writer of Blood Meal (The New York Times Critics’ Pick) and Topside with Theater in Quarantine. Sheppard graduated from The Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training and has collaborated on several works with Pig Iron Theatre Company. Sheppard attends The Juilliard School for playwriting and is a Creative Capital Award Winner, a Next Forever commissioned artist, an Independence Foundation Fellow, a BRIClab Resident, and a 2021–23 member of Page 73’s I-73 Writers Group. He also runs a wedding venue with his wife and friends in the Catskills called Adena Orchard.
On June 25-26, 2026, Page 73 will present free readings of Adin Lenahan’s Imposters, directed by Josiah Davis.
Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26
About the play: Imposters is a sweeping old-Hollywood tragicomedy about warring sisters, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, the Holodomor, and the Holocaust. The play follows two Jewish sisters from Berdychiv, Ukraine: Rikail Varshavskij, a successful Romanov imposter, and Ritta Varshavskij, a struggling actress trying to break out of Yiddish theater. As the sisters reinvent themselves across a rapidly collapsing Europe, childhood jealousies curdle into lifelong struggles over identity, ambition, authenticity, and rot.
About the playwright: Adin Lenahan is a writer, performer, and model who has appeared in the pages of Vogue, Elle, and Cosmopolitan. They are the 2026 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. Their work has been seen at Abrons Art Center, Ars Nova, The Brick, Dixon Place, Culture Lab LIC, Judson Memorial Church, The Kraine, The New Ohio, The Tank, Theater for the New City, Tom Noonan’s Paradise Factory, wild project, diners, drive-ins, and dives. Finalist: Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. Semifinalist: Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights’ Center’s Jerome Fellowship, The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship, The Jewish Plays Project. They are a producer for Undiscovered Countries, an incubator of live performance based in Brooklyn. AdinLenahan.com
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Past Readings
On December 12, 2025, Page 73 presented a free reading of Lyndsey Bourne’s Mabel’s Mine, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, in collaboration with Colt Coeur.
Friday, December 12 at 3pm
Theatre 154
154 Christopher Street, New York
About the play: Two sisters work as heavy equipment operators in an open pit mine, driving the biggest trucks in the world, driving something as big as a three story house -
Hauling oil sands through the pit,
75 meters deep inside the earth
Back and forth
Back and forth
In sub-arctic Northern Alberta,
For twelve hours a day.A play exploring the body and the bodily as sacrifice zones inside the largest industrial project on the planet.
About the playwright: Lyndsey Bourne is a playwright and teacher. Her plays have been presented and developed at Page 73, The Civilians, La MaMa, The Mercury Store, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Ojai Playwrights Conference, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Manhattan Theater Club, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater and others. Lyndsey currently teaches Writing and Devising for Performance at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU Tisch). She practices and co-facilitates beekeeping at her community garden in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She is a member of the Page 73 2025 Writers Group, a member of the 2024-2025 Civilians R&D Group, a New Georges affiliated artist, a member of the New Georges Jam, a 2022 New Georges Audrey Resident, A 2022 Writer in Residence at The Ojai Playwrights Conference, a member of the Obie award winning writers group Youngblood/EST, a resident artist at Ars Nova, the recipient of a 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater Grant, a member of The Banff Centre For The Arts 2025 Playwrights' Lab, and a 2024 Macdowell Fellow. BFA NYU, MFA Brooklyn College (with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney)
About Colt Coeur: Colt Coeur is a Brooklyn-based theatre company founded in 2010. Over 15 years, Colt Coeur has produced 19 world premieres, two NY premieres, developed over 50 plays, and provided free arts intensives for over 225 students. Learn more about their work here.
On November 20-21, 2025, Page 73 presented free readings of R. Forest Malley’s Sisyphus in Yaffa, directed by Sivan Battat.
Thursday, November 20 at 7pm and Friday, November 21 at 4pm
The Flea
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007
Featuring: Cassie Beck, Jack DiFalco, Francesca Fernandez, Nour Habbash, and Hadi Tabbal
About the play: Harvard professor Walid Elsady is invited to deliver a keynote address at a conference not too far from his hometown of Damascus in the ancient port city of Yaffa--or, as it is better known in 2021, Tel Aviv. In denial of the risks involved, he arrives at Ben Gurion Airport with his wife and star student in tow, only to find himself detained without explanation. As he waits in limbo, Walid begins questioning the stories he has told--to his colleagues, to his wife, to himself – and the compromises he has made to succeed in the West.
About the playwright: R. Forest Malley is a playwright and performer from Massachusetts. His work explores memory, migration, violence, queerness, divas, and his Arab and Jewish heritage. He was the winner of the 2024 Goldberg Play Prize for his play French Boy Cigarettes and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow and Yaddo Resident Artist. His work has also been recognized and supported by Theater Masters (Winner, 2022), Page 73 (Workshop, 2025; Member, 2024 Writers Group; Finalist, 2024 Playwriting Fellowship), The Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Finalist, 2025), The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Finalist, 2023 and Semi-Finalist, 2024) and The American Blues Theater (Finalist, 2025). He is currently a member of the SWANA Writer’s Co-Op and a Planet Fitness in Brooklyn. M.F.A: NYU Tisch School of the Arts ‘23; B.A: Harvard University ‘20.
On June 16, 2025, Page 73 presented a free reading of Lyndsey Bourne’s Mabel’s Mine, directed by Caitlin Sullivan, in collaboration with The Civilians.
Monday, June 16 at 4pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor
Haimes Studio
Page 73 is working with The Civilians on this workshop as part of their Findings Series, running June 16th – June 26th. To learn more about their work and the series, visit thecivilians.org.
Featuring: Kate Benson, Cricket Brown, Motell Foster, Andrew Garman, and Kelly McAndrew
About the play: Two sisters work as heavy equipment operators in an open pit mine, driving the biggest trucks in the world, driving something as big as a three story house -
Hauling oil sands through the pit,
75 meters deep inside the earth
Back and forth
Back and forth
In sub-arctic Northern Alberta,
For twelve hours a day.A play exploring the body and the bodily as sacrifice zones inside the largest industrial project on the planet.
About the playwright: Lyndsey Bourne is a playwright and teacher. Her plays have been presented and developed at La MaMa, The Mercury Store, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Ojai Playwrights Conference, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Manhattan Theater Club, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater and others. Lyndsey currently teaches Writing and Devising for Performance at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU Tisch). She practices and co-facilitates beekeeping at her community garden in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She is a member of the Page 73 2025 Writers Group, a member of the 2024-2025 Civilians R&D Group, a New Georges affiliated artist, a member of the New Georges Jam, a 2022 New Georges Audrey Resident, A 2022 Writer in Residence at The Ojai Playwrights Conference, a member of the Obie award winning writers group Youngblood/EST, a resident artist at Ars Nova, the recipient of a 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater Grant, a member of The Banff Centre For The Arts 2025 Playwrights' Lab, and a 2024 Macdowell Fellow. BFA NYU, MFA Brooklyn College (with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney)
About The Civilians: The Civilians is a NYC-based theater company for a world in crisis. Using their signature method of “investigative theater,” they bring together diverse, extraordinary voices to create shows that combine the theatrical and the real. They take on the vital social and political questions of today. All with plenty of laughter, music, and emotion. Mabel’s Mine is co-presented as part of The Civilians Findings Series. Now in its 14th year, their annual Findings Series is the culmination of our R&D Group’s season long investigative processes. Learn more about their work here.
On April 18, 2025, Page 73 presented a free reading of Heidi Armbruster’s Scarecrow, directed by Tamilla Woodard.
Friday, April 18 at 4pm
Open Jar Studios
1601 Broadway, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Featuring: Elizabeth Stahlmann
About the play: A big-city actress lands back on her father's small-time farm with plans to grow a new life. It doesn't take long for her Hallmark movie fantasies to get derailed by busted pipes, lonely nights, toxic neighbors, barn cats, and cows. So many fucking cows.
About the playwright: Scarecrow: Dorset Theatre Festival, Next Act, Weidner Center, Page 73 (workshop). Mrs. Christie: Theatreworks, Dorset Theatre Festival, Primary Stages (workshop), Orchard Project (residency) and upcoming productions at Milwaukee Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, and the McCarter. Dairyland: Playmakers Rep, Chautauqua Theater Festival, and workshops at Playhouse on Park, Primary Stages, The Lark, Luna Stage. Murder Girl: Forward Theatre Company, and workshops at Page 73, TAP, Kansas City Rep. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Alleyway Theatre (upcoming). Heidi was a member of the Working Farm at Space on Ryder Farm, Page 73 Interstate Writers, and a founding member of Women Artists Writing. As an actress, Heidi has extensive theater, film, and TV credits.
On April 10-11, 2025, Page 73 presented free readings of Lori Felipe-Barkin’s Flor Underwater, directed by Laurie Woolery.
Thursday, April 10 at 7pm
Friday, April 11 at 4pm
The Flea
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007
Featuring: Maggie Bofill, Jacqueline Guillén, Annie Henk, Ian Lassiter, Steven Maier, Camila Moreno, Jasai Chase Owens, Carl Palmer, Gían Pérez, and Theo Stockman
About the play: In Florida, the water is rising, the climate is changing, and Flor and her children are looking to get theirs before it all goes to shit. With a nod to Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage, Flor Underwater is a not-too-distant-future reimagining of America’s loopiest state in crisis as its rednecks, Cubans, Miccosukee Indians, and Mar-O-Lagans struggle to claim a piece of the state they call home…or what’s left of it.
About the playwright: Lori Felipe-Barkin is a playwright, performer and voiceover artist based out of NYC and Miami who works in English and Spanish. Most recently, her short play, The Peepholeman, premiered at BAM as part of the 2024 Weasel Festival. Her three-act play, Flor Underwater, was selected for the 2020 Play Penn New Play Conference, received an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Terrence McNally Award, and was a finalist for the 2023 Risk Theatre Award, the 2023 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition, and the 2024 Royer Award. She has had play readings at Playwrights Horizons for Out There in the West, and at INTAR Theatre and Iati Theater for Ama. Egg. Oyá. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College.
On February 6-8, 2025, Page 73 presented free readings of Vichet Chum’s The Boy Luck Club, directed by Knud Adams, in collaboration with Fault Line Theatre.
Thursday, February 6 at 7pm
Friday, February 7 at 3pm and 7pm
Saturday, February 8 at 1pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor
(Please note to enter 520 8th Avenue you are required to show ID to building staff in the lobby.)
Page 73 is working with Fault Line Theatre on this workshop, a first-time collaboration between our companies. Fault Line Theatre shares our dedication to new plays and supporting the most talented playwrights. Learn more about their work at faultlinetheatre.org.
Featuring: Wai Ching Ho, Daniel K. Isaac, Sushma Saha, Jon Norman Schneider, and Shannon Tyo
About the play: In The Boy Luck Club, four friends gather for an irreverent book club to tackle Amy Tan's seminal novel about mothers and daughters. The friends' own experiences navigating parents, lovers, and careers soon take over — and derail — the night.
About Page 2: We use our Page 2 Workshop program from time to time to offer significant resources to a promising new play. Vichet will spend two weeks with the creative team exploring his draft, culminating in four public readings. The last Page 2 workshop was for A Strange Loop's first-ever choreography workshop in early 2018!
About the playwright: Vichet Chum (He/Him) is a New York-based writer from Dallas, Texas. His plays have been workshopped/produced at Steppenwolf Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Ars Nova, Page 73 Productions, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Cleveland Play House, the Magic Theater, the UCROSS Foundation, Fault Line Theatre, Crowded Outlet, Second Generation Productions, Weston Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, South Carolina New Play Festival and the New Harmony Project. He received the 2023 Lucille Bulger Service Award, 2018 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting with New Dramatists, the 2021 Laurents/Hatcher Award, a 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for the world premiere of his play Bald Sisters which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2022, and a special state citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives for his play KNYUM at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in 2018. He is currently a Roundabout Theatre Company Underground Resident, New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Fellow, New Harmony Project board member, and Obie Award and Tony Award-winning AAPAC (The Asian American Performers Action Coalition) steering committee member. Past notable writers' groups include: the Resident Working Farm Group at Space on Ryder Farm, the Interstate 73 Writer's Group at Page 73 and the Ars Nova Play Group. He is currently working on commissions for Audible, Steppenwolf Theatre, People’s Light, and Seattle Children's Theatre. Vichet's debut YA novel Kween was released last fall with Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. He is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville (BFA) and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company (MFA) and is represented by WME and CURATE Management. vichetchum.com
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