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 2025 Writers Group
Lyndsey Bourne (she/they) is a queer Canadian playwright, teacher and a birth/abortion doula working with The Doula Project. 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. They are 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 member of Ars Nova’s Play Group, the recipient of a 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater Grant and a 2024 Macdowell Fellow. BFA NYU, MFA Brooklyn College (with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney)
Adam Ashraf Elsayigh was born in Cairo and raised in Dubai. His childhood entwined a Muslim Egyptian home, American cable, and British schooling in a migrant-majority city. This upbringing at the cross-section of cultures is at the core of the artist Adam is. Today, Adam is a U.S.-based playwright and theatermaker of stage and screenplays about modern people navigating themes of queerness, labor, and class while living across and between cultures. Adam’s writing (Drowning in Cairo, Memorial, ALAA: A Family Trilogy) has been developed across four continents, including at Sundance, NYTW, and Golden Thread. Adam is a Georgetown Global Performance Lab Fellow. He holds a BA in Theater and Dramaturgy from NYU Abu Dhabi and an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College. adamaelsayigh.com
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.
Justin Halle (they/he) is a queer Jewy and sometimes funny playwright, teacher, and pansy. Justin's play VILE ISLE opened The Tank's 2024-2025 Season and was described by Helen Shaw as "superb," "goofy," and "horny." Justin's other work has been developed by companies including Joe's Pub, Samuel French and Concord Theatrical's OOB Festival, The Vineyard, Red Bull Theater, and La MaMa ETC. Justin's play COWGIRL was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award and a Columbia @ Roundabout New Play Award Finalist, and their playwriting has been published in Best of Red Bull Theater's Short New Plays and WE/US: Monologues for the Gender Minority. Justin has worked as a dramaturg and assistant director for new operas with companies including The Why Collective and the Cincinnati Opera. They also play drums in a band called Boy Howdy! which is not, in fact, a country music band. BFA: NYU. MFA: Columbia. For more barely contained chaos, visit justinhalle.com.
Ro Reddick (she/her) is a queer Black playwright and songwriter. She writes off-kilter comedies (mostly); the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares. Ro is a 2024-2025 DGF Playwriting Fellow and Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice. She is also under commission at People’s Light Theatre for their new Queerways PA commissioning and residency program. Her plays have been workshopped/developed/read with Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, Trinity Rep, The Ground Floor (Berkeley Rep), Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Clubbed Thumb’s MFA Showcase, and Williamstown Theatre Festival (NYC Reading). Other fellowships, residencies, and honors include: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination (Cold War Choir Practice), Venturous Fellowship Nomination (Throwback Island), Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, Adele Kellenberg Seaver Fellow in Creative Writing at Brown University, La Mama Umbria International Playwright Retreat, Miranda Theatre Company Playwright Grant, 2x O’Neill Finalist (Unlined Hardcover Layflat, Throwback Island). As an actor, Ro has performed at theaters including Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf, and KC Rep; Off-Broadway in Silence! The Musical, and on screen in The Americans, Louie, and SATC 2. As a singer she has performed and co-written songs for a country, rock, and blues band. She also writes original songs for her plays and is an alum of the BAI Songwriting Workshop. In addition to her MFA in Playwriting from Brown, Ro has an MBA from NYU (which she has no intention of using).
Danielle Stagger is a playwright and performer from Queens, NY. Her plays engage questions of performance, respectability, and shame through the exploration of the appropriate and the forbidden. She prioritizes the authentic presence of Blackness, queerness, and womanhood both on and off stage and, as an artist in practice, works to decentralize and destabilize the product-driven, linear theatrical process. Danielle is the inaugural recipient of The Lillys' Lorraine Hansberry Award, is a two-time Eugene O'Neill NPC Finalist, and was a nominee for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Danielle's plays have been finalists for the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Ollie New Play Award, and the Lark's Venturous Playwrights Fellowship. She has been commissioned by Second Stage Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club and is currently a member of WP Theater Lab's 2024-2026 Cohort. Danielle holds a B.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale's David Geffen School of Drama.
Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke is a Sri Lankan playwright, actor and director. Born in Helsinki, Arun has lived and worked in Colombo, London and New York and his work is representative of an international, intersectional worldview. He served as Associate Artistic Director at the Mind Adventures Theatre Company from 2011 to 2017. His Sri Lankan works include Paraya, Only Soldiers and, The One Who Loves You So, for which he received the Gratiaen Prize for Literature and was published by Perera Hussein books. In New York, he has received the Judith Champion Launch Commission from the Atlantic Theatre for his play The House is Burning, and he is a member of the Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writers Group. His play The Present was performed at the Roundabout Underground Readings Series, he received the John Golden Playwriting Prize upon graduating from NYU Tisch School of Arts, and his screenplay Rangoli is currently being developed with the Lower East Side Film Festival’s Stay Indie Project. He was also part of the Roundabout’s Space Jam Writers Residency. As an actor, his performance in The Joyous Farmer received the Best Actor Prize at the Amarcord Chicago Film Festival. His work focuses primarily on queerness, class and our relationships to national histories.
Drew Woodson is a Western Shoshone playwright based in New York City. He has had his work read in multiple theaters across New York, including Rattlestick Theater where he was asked to open the first annual Northeastern Native Arts Festival with his play, Your Friend, Jay Silverheels. For this same work, Drew was named Yale's Young Indigenous Playwright of 2021. Recently, Drew served as the Native Artist for the Four Directions Artist Residency, a four-week program held across four states. The residency will culminate in a reading of his new play, Smoke, at Kansas City Rep this January. He also recently completed a workshop of his new play, From Above, directed by Madeline Sayet. As a writer, Drew seeks to tell stories where Native people can take up space, be complicated, and ultimately be more than just a storytelling device. Drew is an MFA Graduate from the Dramatic Writing department at NYU.
Page 73 Writers Group Participants
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