Page 73 Productions

Page 73 is a not-for-profit theatre company based in New York City and founded in 1997. They are dedicated to advancing the careers of new playwrights and exclusively produce playwrights’ New York debuts.

In addition to producing Off-Broadway, Page 73 also supports emerging playwrights with their development programs, such as the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. and the Interstate 73 Playwriting Group. Page 73's current Artistic Director is Michael Walkup.

History

Page 73 was founded in 1997 by Liz Jones and Asher Richelli In their early years, Page 73 worked project-by-project with writers through readings, workshops, and small-scale productions.

In 2003, Page 73 established the Playwriting Fellowship to formalize their work with a single exceptional playwright each year.

In 2006, Page 73 presented Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, which Quiara Alegria Hudes wrote during her 2005 Fellowship year. The production was the company’s largest to date, and as a result of its success, Page 73 transferred the world premiere to El Museo del Barrio’s Heckscher Theater. This co-production served as a significant springboard for their growth, and Page 73 has continued producing Off-Broadway each season since.

Since 2006, Page 73 has provided retreats and residencies for their writers, most consistently through the annual Page 73 Summer Residency, a weekly opportunity that took place on the campus of Yale University from 2007 to 2019. They have also provided retreats through partnerships with SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Pocantico Center, and others.

Page 73 created their Interstate 73 writers group at the recommendation of 2007 Playwriting Fellow Krista Knight who was looking to share work regularly with peers. Since then, they've named seven or eight writers to the annual group who meet biweekly with Page 73's artistic staff.

Awards and Recognition

Page 73 has received numerous accolades throughout the years. Most notably, the company was awarded the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Citation in 2019 and an Obie Award for Providing Extraordinary Service to Early-Career Playwrights in 2020.

In 2022, A Strange Loop, a musical they co-produced Off-Broadway with Playwrights Horizons, and then regionally with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, won the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Earlier awarded productions include Zora Howard’s STEW, a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and Clare Barron’s You Got Older, for which Barron won a 2014 Obie Award Dan Le Franc won the New York Times 2010 Outstanding Playwright Award for Page 73’s production of Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, and Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue was a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

A Strange Loop

Page 73 co-produced the world premiere of A Strange Loop with Playwrights Horizons in 2019. It went on to have its regional premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 2021 followed by a run on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre from April 14, 2022 through January 15, 2023. ASL won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, an Obie Award for Playwriting and the Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the 75th Tony Awards.

Productions

• Agnes Borinsky's The Tree (2023)
• Bleu Beckford-Burrell's La Race (2022)
• John J. Caswell, Jr.'s Man Cave (2022)
• Zora Howard's Stew (2020)
• Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop (2019)
• Mia Chung's Catch As Catch Can (2018)
• Susan Soon He Stanton's Today Is My Birthday (2017)
• Basil Kreimendhal's Orange Julius (2017)
• Caroline V. McGraw's Ultimate Beauty Bible (2016)
• Leah Nanako Winkler's Kentucky (2016)
• Max Posner's Judy (2015)
• Clare Barron's You Got Older (2014)
• Cori Thomas' When January Feels Like Summer (2014)
• George Brant's Grounded (2014)
• Kara Manning's Sleeping Rough (2013)
• Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's Lidless (2011)
• Eliza Clark's Edgewise (2010)
• Samuel D. Hunter's Jack's Precious Moment (2010)
• Heidi Schreck's Creature (2009)
• Dan LeFranc's Sixty Miles to Silver Lake (2009)
• Jason Grote's 1001 (2007)
• Quiara Alegria Hudes' Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (2006)

Playwriting Fellowship

The Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship provides a year of comprehensive support to one early-career playwright who has not received a professional production in New York City. Through this program, Page 73 provides artistic and financial resources to this writer as he or she develops one or more new plays of his or her choosing.

Page 73 Fellows:

• Majkin Holmquist (2023)
• Marvin González De León (2022)
• Bleu Beckford-Burrell (2021)
• Emma Goidel (2020)
• Sanaz Toossi (2019)
• C.A. Johnson (2018)
• John J. Caswell, Jr. (2017)
• Hansol Jung (2016)
• Nick Gandiello (2015)
• Clare Barron (2014)
• Caroline V. McGraw (2013)
• Max Posner (2012)
• Janine Nabers (2011)
• Eliza Clark (2010)
• Samuel D. Hunter's Jack's Precious Moment (2010)
• Heidi Schreck (2009)
• Tommy Smith (2008)
• Krista Knight (2007)
• Jason Grote (2006)
• Quiara Alegria Hudes (2005)
• Kirsten Greenidge (2014)

How Page 73 Got Its Name

In 1997, the founders of the temporarily-named RJS Productions were in search of a play for their newly-formed company to produce. Playwright Peter Ackerman submitted a paper copy of his play, The Urn, for all three founders to read. They liked the play, a mystery drama, but felt like something was off; the ending just didn't add up. They finally realized that the second-to-last page of the script was missing, and of course, the answer to the play’s mystery was on that all-important page: page 73!.

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