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.
Past Readings
On June 16, 2025, Page 73 presented a free reading of Lyndsey Bourne’s Mabel’s Mine, directed by Caitlin Sullivan, in collaboration with The Civilians.
Monday, June 16 at 4pm
ART/NY Spaces @ 520
520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor
Haimes Studio
(Please note to enter 520 8th Avenue you are required to show ID to building staff in the lobby.)’'
Page 73 is working with The Civilians on this workshop as part of their Findings Series, running June 16th – June 26th. To learn more about their work and the series, visit thecivilians.org.
Featuring: Kate Benson, Cricket Brown, Motell Foster, Andrew Garman, and Kelly McAndrew
About the play: Two sisters work as heavy equipment operators in an open pit mine, driving the biggest trucks in the world, driving something as big as a three story house -
Hauling oil sands through the pit,
75 meters deep inside the earth
Back and forth
Back and forth
In sub-arctic Northern Alberta,
For twelve hours a day.A play exploring the body and the bodily as sacrifice zones inside the largest industrial project on the planet.
About the playwright: Lyndsey Bourne is a playwright and teacher. 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. She is a member of the Page 73 2025 Writers Group, a member of the 2024-2025 Civilians R&D Group, 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 resident artist at Ars Nova, the recipient of a 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater Grant, a member of The Banff Centre For The Arts 2025 Playwrights' Lab, and a 2024 Macdowell Fellow. BFA NYU, MFA Brooklyn College (with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney)
About The Civilians: The Civilians is a NYC-based theater company for a world in crisis. Using their signature method of “investigative theater,” they bring together diverse, extraordinary voices to create shows that combine the theatrical and the real. They take on the vital social and political questions of today. All with plenty of laughter, music, and emotion. Mabel’s Mine is co-presented as part of The Civilians Findings Series. Now in its 14th year, their annual Findings Series is the culmination of our R&D Group’s season long investigative processes. Learn more about their work here.
On April 18, 2025, Page 73 presented a free reading of Heidi Armbruster’s Scarecrow, directed by Tamilla Woodard.
Friday, April 18 at 4pm
Open Jar Studios
1601 Broadway, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Featuring: Elizabeth Stahlmann
About the play: A big-city actress lands back on her father's small-time farm with plans to grow a new life. It doesn't take long for her Hallmark movie fantasies to get derailed by busted pipes, lonely nights, toxic neighbors, barn cats, and cows. So many fucking cows.
About the playwright: Scarecrow: Dorset Theatre Festival, Next Act, Weidner Center, Page 73 (workshop). Mrs. Christie: Theatreworks, Dorset Theatre Festival, Primary Stages (workshop), Orchard Project (residency) and upcoming productions at Milwaukee Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, and the McCarter. Dairyland: Playmakers Rep, Chautauqua Theater Festival, and workshops at Playhouse on Park, Primary Stages, The Lark, Luna Stage. Murder Girl: Forward Theatre Company, and workshops at Page 73, TAP, Kansas City Rep. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Alleyway Theatre (upcoming). Heidi was a member of the Working Farm at Space on Ryder Farm, Page 73 Interstate Writers, and a founding member of Women Artists Writing. As an actress, Heidi has extensive theater, film, and TV credits.
On April 10-11, 2025, Page 73 presented 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
Featuring: Maggie Bofill, Jacqueline Guillén, Annie Henk, Ian Lassiter, Steven Maier, Camila Moreno, Jasai Chase Owens, Carl Palmer, Gían Pérez, and Theo Stockman
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.
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 at faultlinetheatre.org.
Featuring: Wai Ching Ho, Daniel K. Isaac, Sushma Saha, Jon Norman Schneider, and Shannon Tyo
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