Writers Group
The 2024 Writers Group at the Page 73 Office
Our theater opens its doors to talented playwrights who have a story to tell, subsequently opening the doors of the larger theater community, and preparing them for the opportunities we hope will come their way.
Writers Group members meet at the Page 73 offices twice a month to share their newest pages and discuss their work with their peers and Page 73’s Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director. Every member receives a $3,000 stipend.
Announcing our 2026 Writers Group
ABIGAIL C. ONWUNALI (she/her) is a multi-faceted Nigerian-American storyteller whose work spans playwriting, performance, and poetry. She is a 2025 NYTW 2050 Artistic Fellow, 2025 New Harmony Project Resident, and recipient of the 2025 Irons in the Fire Residency. A Princess Grace Award winner and Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival winner, Abigail is a current member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Obie-winning Youngblood collective and an alumna of the Liberation Theater Company’s Residency Program. She has been a finalist for the Fire This Time Festival and Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Work Incubator, as well as a semi-finalist for La MaMa’s Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship, Ars Nova’s Artist-in-Residence, Forge NYC, and the Colt Coeur Residency. As a performer, Abigail is a two-time Elliot Norton Award nominee and winner for her lead performance in The Grove at The Huntington. Her poetry has been viewed worldwide, and she holds a degree in Acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. An inaugural member of Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Mentorship Program, Abigail creates ritual-driven work that conjures the unseen, giving voice to her ancestral roots and illuminating the inner lives of Black women through ceremony and story.
Adin Lenahan (they/them) is a writer and performer. 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: Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, 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.
Aditya Joshi is a theatre artist and filmmaker from Kansas City, Missouri. On stage, Aditya produced an Off-Broadway production of the Siglo De Oro classic La Traición en la Amistad, which premiered in June of 2023 at Repertorio Español in New York City. As a playwright, Aditya has received development support from The Sol Project and Latinx Playwrights Circle (among others), and was a finalist for Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Award & semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award. In TV and film, Aditya is currently a story editor on the second season of the hit TV series We Were Liars, from Amazon & UTV, returning after writing episode 105. He also sold Shikaar, a limited series about a doomed tiger hunt, to FX and co-directed Finding Our Wild, a short in partnership with REI Co-Op Studios that received a theatrical release with AMC Theatres. His new short film as a director, A West Side Story Story, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and is executive produced by Luis Guzmán. He was recently selected as a 2025 WGA/Filmmation New York Screenwriting Fellow, where he is developing his feature directorial debut under the guidance of Tom McCarthy and Anne Carey. adityamov.com
ALEXA DERMAN is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been developed by the Playwrights Realm, Ars Nova, NYTW, the O'Neill, Clubbed Thumb, Orchard Project, the cell, and the Playwrights Center. Alexa’s plays have been the winner of the Kernodle Prize, the Chesley/Bumbalo Prize, and the Jewish Plays Project’s National Competition; runner-up for Princess Grace/New Dramatists; two-time honorable mention for the Relentless Award. She’s under commission from MTC/Sloan and EST/Sloan and is a New Georges affiliated artist. As a screenwriter, she has been a staff writer for Netflix and Hulu and is developing multiple film/TV projects. BA from Yale in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies; MFA from Brown, where she studied under Julia Jarcho. Now that you've met her, you can call her Lex. alexaderman.com
BENJAMIN BENNE’s (beh-nay) plays include Alma (Center Theatre Group, American Blues, ArtsWest, Curious Theatre, Central Square, The Spot, Chance Theater, Passage Theatre), at the very bottom of a body of water (forthcoming: Boston Court Pasadena), In His Hands (Mosaic Theater, First Floor), Manning (Portland Stage), and What / Washed Ashore / Astray (Pillsbury House Theatre). Development: Williamstown Theatre Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Public, Roundabout, Playwrights Realm, The New Group, Denver Center, The Old Globe, Two River, The Lark, New Harmony Project, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, among many others. Awards: Dr. Kerry English Award, Clauder Competition Grand Prize, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, National Latinx Playwriting Award. Commissions: South Coast Rep & Seattle Rep. MFA: David Geffen/Yale School of Drama. He is newly based in Brooklyn, NY. benjaminbenne.com
DHARI NOEL (he/they) is a Queer-Black-Caribbean-Harlemite playwright, performer, and educator. Dhari’s writing often explores the incoherence of race, the failures of gender, and inherited ways of being. Dhari’s work has been generously supported by several artistic organizations, including: Black Ram//White Ewe (Dramatic Question Theater' Classics in Color), Is Cry You Cry’n? (Brown University & Clubbed Thumb); Money Shot (Brown University, 2025 O’Neill NPC Finalist); Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan (ANTfest @ Ars Nova, Brown University); A.G.P. (2023 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist); Man Made (2024 O’Neill NPC Semi-Finalist), and Spirit Junkie (Cherry Picking/The Wild Project). In the summer of 2023, Dhari was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow at Lambda Literary’s writing retreat. Dhari received a BA in Sociology from Columbia University and completed an MFA in Playwriting at Brown University in May of 2025 supported by an Adele Kellenberg Seaver 1949 Fellowship in Creative Writing. Website: dharinoel.com
JUCOBY JOHNSON (he/him) is a New York-based playwright, actor, and screenwriter originally from Jacksonville, FL. JuCoby is a second-year playwright in the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. As an actor, he has been seen onstage at The Guthrie Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Jungle Theater, Theater Latté Da, Theater Mu, Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company, and many more. As a playwright, his plays include How It's Gon Be (Echo Theater, 2023; Underdog Theater, 2019), ...but you could've held my hand (upcoming: IAMA Theater, 2026; CATCO, 2022; O'Neill NPC Summer Season, 2022), 5 (Jungle Theater, 2023; O'Neill NPC Summer Season, 2022; Seven Devils Finalist), Heritage (International Black Theater Festival, 2024); The Red Man (2025 Ojai Playwrights Conference, 2025 Pacific Playwrights Festival, 2025 O'Neill NPC Finalist, 2025 Seven Devils Finalist); I'll Be Seeing You Again (Jungle Serial Audio Series, 2021) and Revelations (Playing On Air, 2021). His screenwriting credits include The Runarounds (Amazon). He is the recipient of McKnight and Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships, was a member of the 2022 Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Program, and a member of the inaugural Artist Cohort at The Jungle Theater in Minneapolis. jucobyjohnson.com
MALLORY JANE WEISS is a Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based, queer, female playwright with a penchant for comedy and Taylor Ham. Her work has been developed at The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Clubbed Thumb, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Portland Stage Company, Parity Productions, and The Invulnerable Nothings, among others. Mallory was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow. She has been named a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and Clubbed Thumb's Biennial Commission; semi-finalist for Page 73's Playwriting Fellowship, Premiere Stages' Premiere Play Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator; and a nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her audio play, Dave and Julia are Stuck in a Tree, was the winner of the 2020 James Stevenson Prize and produced by Playing on Air starring Danny DeVito. Her play, Pony Up, is published with Broadway Play Publishing; and her short play, DRAWBRIDGE, is published with Concord Theatricals. BA: Harvard University; MFA: The New School. malloryjaneweiss.com
Page 73 Writers Group Participants
2025
Lyndsey Bourne
Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
Lori Felipe-Barkin
Justin Halle
Ro Reddick
Danielle Stagger
Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke
Drew Woodson
2024
jose sebastian alberdi
Calley N. Anderson
Jake Brasch
Garrett David Kim
Forest Malley
Genevieve Simon
May Truehaft-Ali
Elinor T Vanderburg
2023
Lucas Baisch
Majkin Holmquist
Mary Kamitaki
Shayan Lofti
Naomi Lorrain
Charlie Oh
Audley Puglisi
Nia Akilah Robinson
2021-22
Heidi Armbruster
Jahna Ferron-Smith
Dylan Guerra
Roger Q. Mason
April Ranger
Scott R. Sheppard
juliany taveras
Max Yu
2020-21
Bleu Beckford-Burrell
Vichet Chum
Tyler English-Beckwith
Emma Goidel
Marvin González De León
Morgan Gould
Emily Gardner Xu Hall
Haygen-Brice Walker
2019
Will Arbery
Gina Femia
Zora Howard
Jessica Huang
Stefani Kuo
Kareem M. Lucas
Genne Murphy
juliany taveras
2018
Eleanor Burgess
Emily Feldman
Amina Henry
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Daniel K. Isaac
Michael R. Jackson
Gordon Leary
Julia Meinwald
Gary Winter
2017
John J. Caswell, Jr.
Cat Crowley
Keelay Gipson
Haruna Lee
Molly Beach Murphy
Gabrielle Reisman
Sarah Sander
Susan Soon He Stanton
2016
Kevin Artigue
Kate Attwell
Alex Lubischer
Amina Henry
Caroline V. McGraw
Jiehae Park
Jeremy Tiang
2015
Greg Beam
Steve DiUbaldo
Jerry Lieblich
Brian Otaño
Gabrielle Reisman
Tracy Thorne
Mfoniso Udofia
2014
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Sarah Gancher
Nick Gandiello
Kevin Kautzman
Becca Schlossberg
Emily Schwend
2013
Stephen Brown
Meghan Deans
Peter Gil-Sheridan
David Jenkins
Kait Kerrigan
EM Lewis
Caroline V. McGraw
2011/2012
Amy Evans
Meghan Kennedy
Krista Knight
Scott Organ
Jason Gray Platt
Max Posner
Harrison David Rivers
Sarah Sander
Matt Schatz
2010/2011
Robert Askins
Madeline George
Mary Hamilton
Greg Keller
Michael Mitnick
Megan Mostyn-Brown
Richard Toth
2009/2010
Aaron Landsman
Alex Lewin
Heather Lynn MacDonald
Sam Marks
Sylvan Oswald
Emily Schwend
2008/2009
Eliza Clark
Sarah Hammond
Josh Malmuth
Molly Rice
Matt Schatz
Tommy Smith
Cori Thomas
2007/2008
Andy Bragen
Kara Lee Corthron
J. Holtham
Krista Knight
Kenneth Lin
Kristen Palmer