Page 73 Productions to Sponsor Three Playwriting Residencies this Summer

Page 73 Productions will sponsor three separate Playwriting Residencies during the summer of 2013.

The first weeklong residency was held at The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in Tarrytown, New York from June 21-29. It featured playwrights Stephen Brown and Max Posner, along with director Portia Krieger and a company of actors. The Pocantico Center residency, established in 2008 by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, supports artists in their creative process. This was Page 73's fifth summer sending playwrights to the residency.

MR. Brown is a member of Page 73's 2013 Interstate 73 writers group, and Mr. Posner was the 2012 P73 Playwriting Fellow. During the Pocantico residency, segments of both MR. Brown and Mr. Posner's plays were presented for the public.

The second residency, from August 14 to August 18, will be held at SPACE on Ryder Farm, an artist residency program housed on a working organic farm in Brewster, New York. Greg Keller, a member of Page 73's 2010-2011 Interstate 73 writers group, will spend his time in residency developing a new script.

The third playwriting residency, from August 12 to August 18, is Page 73's annual Summer Residency held at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Playwrights participating in this year's Summer Residency at Yale are Nick Gandiello, Meghan Kennedy, 2013 P73 Playwriting Fellow Caroline V. McGraw, and Mfoniso Udofia. They will be joined by directors Portia Krieger and Daniella Topol, as well as a company of actors from New York and students at Yale School of Drama.

Each Summer Residency playwright will devote the residency time to working either on a single play or on several ongoing projects. Mr. Gandiello, with the support of director Portia Krieger and a cast of six actors, will work on his play SUNRISE HIGHWAY, set in a Long Island house where two divorced parents of two try to combine their families. Ms. Kennedy, supported by director Daniella Topol and a cast of eight actors, will work on her play THE WHOLEHEARTED, in which a plane crash in Park Slope disrupts everyday life in 1960s Brooklyn. Both Ms. McGraw and Ms. Udofia will spend the week working on several ongoing projects, culminating in closed readings of both of their work.

On Saturday, August 17, beginning at 4:00 p.m. Page 73 will present readings of both Mr. Gandiello and Ms. Kennedy's plays in New Haven, CT. Readings are free and open to the public; however reservations are required by emailing info@page73.org.

PAGE 73 Productions - under the leadership of Executive Directors Liz Jones and Asher Richelli and Associate Director Michael Walkup - develops and produces the work of early-career playwrights who have yet to have their work professionally produced in New York. Page 73 produces at least one New York or world premiere by an early-career playwright each year. Page 73 also offers production-oriented development opportunities that help usher the works of early-career playwrights from first draft to final script. In addition to its summer residencies, the company also hosts the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, a year-long program supporting one playwright's creative and career development; "Page 2", an extensive developmental workshop; and "Interstate 73", an annual writers group for eight early-career playwrights, and mounts one full-scale production per year that marks the first professional world or New York premiere by the participating playwright.

Page 73 produced the world premieres of ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE by Quiara Alegría Hudes, directed by Davis McCallum (2007 Pulitzer finalist and prequel to Quiara's 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play WATER BY THE SPOONFUL), SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE by Dan LeFranc directed by Anne Kauffman and co-produced with Soho Rep (2010 New York Times Playwriting Award); CREATURE by Heidi Schreck, directed by Leigh Silverman and co-produced with New Georges; JACK'S PRECIOUS MOMENT by Samuel D. Hunter directed by Kip Fagan and EDGEWISE by Eliza Clark directed by Trip Cullman and co-produced with The Play Company, as well as the New York premieres of 1001 by Jason Grote, directed by Ethan McSweeney (Time Out New York - Top 10) and LIDLESS by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, directed by Tea Alagic. The company received from the League of Professional Theatre Women their 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for "innovative and creative work dedicated to the emerging dramatist".

For more information about Page 73 Productions, please visit www.page73.org.