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.
Reservations are required – and fill up quickly! Save your seat today for the freshest pages in the American theater.
Upcoming Readings
On April 10-11, Page 73 will present 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
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.
Past Readings
Want to see earlier listings of our Page 73 readings?
On October 16, 2024, Page 73 presented a free reading of Elinor T Vanderburg’s Deep Salmon, directed by Lisa Milinazzo.
Wednesday, October 16 at 7pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
Aibel Studio
520 8th Avenue, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10018
About the play: January Daley has returned home to bury both her father and her childhood. Her estranged brother August is back, too, and eldest sister May is just trying to pull off the funeral without digging up the past. With May’s cheeky teenager March in the mix, secrets start to surface, and Janney and August begin to see the past through new eyes – and rekindled hearts. But can they ever move forward if they’re not allowed to look back? And why is their dad’s home aide being so damn helpful?? And what the #&@$ is that smell coming from the fridge???
About the playwright: 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 children, Zara and Raffi, and their calico, Poppy. elinortvanderburg.com
On October 3-4, 2024, Page 73 presented free readings of Jake Brasch’s Salutations, I’m Creative Dave (By Creative Dave), directed by Jess McLeod.
Thursday, October 3 at 7pm, and Friday, October 4 at 4pm
The Flea
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007
About the play: Creative Dave is not your average housekeeping robot—he’s an artist. In fact, he wrote this play! His dialogue may be catastrophically bad, but he has an essential message for his family. Written entirely from a robot’s skewed perspective, Salutations, I’m Creative Dave queers the American Family Drama into a batshit comedy about a robot who hates his family.
About the playwright: Jake Brasch (he/they) is a queer, sober, Jewish clown from Colorado and a recent graduate from the playwriting program at The Juilliard School. The World Premiere of their play The Reservoir will be presented in 2025 as a co-production between the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Alliance Theatre, and Geffen Playhouse. Jake won the Kennedy Center's 2024 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and is the inaugural recipient of the 2024 Terrence McNally Recovery Commission. They’re a 2024 Page 73 Writers Group member, and a 2023-2024 Alliance/Kendeda Finalist. They're a proud recent graduate of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood. Jake holds commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, The Acting Company, and the EST/Sloan Project. He holds a BFA from NYU Tisch (Experimental Theatre Wing/New Studio on Broadway).www.jakebrasch.com
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 faultlinetheatre.org.
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
On October 31 - November 1, 2024, Page 73 presented free readings of jose sebastian alberdi’s rachel, nevada, directed by Danya Taymor.
Thursday, October 31 at 7pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
Haimes Studio
520 8th Avenue, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10018
Friday, November 1 at 4pm
The Flea
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007
About the play: After a shared personal loss, Sam and Catherine travel to Rachel, Nevada in hopes of feeling closer to closure. There they meet Teri, a girl who wants to give it up for god, and Orville, a cattle rancher who likes to hang out at the Mini Marsh'Inn and drink. As the group navigates their own personal griefs, beliefs, and the things they give up in order to be happy, they find out that sometimes it doesn't matter what's real or what isn't because bad things still happen regardless.
About the playwright: jose sebastian alberdi is a playwright (with TV aspirations) originally from San Diego, CA. Writing developed with: the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (2023 National Playwrights Conference), MacDowell (Fellowship), Page 73 (Fellowship, Writers’ Group), Clubbed Thumb (Early Career Writers’ Group 23/24), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Youngblood), Colt Coeur (Residency), The Orchard Project (Greenhouse Lab, Episodic Lab, Homegrown x Sony TV Lab), Fresh Ground Pepper (BRB Eco-Week), the Huntington Theatre Company (Dream Boston), South Coast Repertory (Elizabeth George Commission, NewSCRipts), Exquisite Corpse Company (Writer’s Lab), Lambda Literary (Writer’s Retreat), and more. Upcoming productions: ¡Mamágua! (Rorschach Theatre, 2025). MFA: NYU.
On November 4, 2024, Page 73 presented free readings of jose sebastian alberdi’s bogfriends, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody.
Monday, November 4 at 3pm and 7pm
The Flea
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007
About the play: Tanner & Archie work at a museum. Finn & Cillian are Americans in Ireland. Osgar & Irial died over four thousand years ago. A play about power-dynamics, love, and preserving dead things (or trying to) that traverses place, time, and culture.
About the playwright: jose sebastian alberdi is a playwright (with TV aspirations) originally from San Diego, CA. Writing developed with: the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (2023 National Playwrights Conference), MacDowell (Fellowship), Page 73 (Fellowship, Writers’ Group), Clubbed Thumb (Early Career Writers’ Group 23/24), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Youngblood), Colt Coeur (Residency), The Orchard Project (Greenhouse Lab, Episodic Lab, Homegrown x Sony TV Lab), Fresh Ground Pepper (BRB Eco-Week), the Huntington Theatre Company (Dream Boston), South Coast Repertory (Elizabeth George Commission, NewSCRipts), Exquisite Corpse Company (Writer’s Lab), Lambda Literary (Writer’s Retreat), and more. Upcoming productions: ¡Mamágua! (Rorschach Theatre, 2025). MFA: NYU.