P73 Announces $5000 Playwriting Fellowship to Nabers for 2011

Page 73 proudly announces that Janine Nabers is the recipient of the 2011 "P73 Playwriting Fellowship," an annual award that provides an early-career playwright with a $5,000 cash grant along with along with a year of development support for one or two projects, it has been announced by Liz Jones and Asher Richelli, the artistic directors of the Off-Broadway theatre company Page 73. Previous recipients of the "P73 Playwriting Fellowship" include Quiara Alegria Hudes, Heidi Schreck and Eliza Clark.

Ms. Nabers was chosen from over 250 applicants from all over the country. As part of her fellowship year, Nabers will be working on two new plays, A Swell In the Ground, which examines the deterioration of a couple's relationship, and Serial.Black.Face about a single black woman raising her sexually curious daughter in the midst of the 1979 Atlanta Child Murders.

Page 73 Executive Directors Liz Jones and Asher Richelli stated: "We're thrilled to be working with Janine. This was by far our most competitive year yet. We had an unprecedented number of candidates and narrowed them down to seven remarkable playwrights. Janine's writing stood out with her moving and confident Annie Bosh is Missing, a portrayal of a woman who returns home to Houston after a stint in rehab. Janine is simply extraordinary. We can't wait to start working with her."

In addition to Nabers, the finalists for the award included Laura Jacqmin, Aaron Landsman, Erica Lipez, Greg Keller, Eric Pfeffinger and Emily Schwend.

Launched in 2003 and awarded each year to an early-career playwright who has not received wide public recognition or production opportunities in New York City, the P73 Playwriting Fellowship is a nationally-renowned fellowship that provides a residency year to one playwright annually. In addition to a $5,000 cash grant, the recipient of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship receives a year of development support for one or more projects.

Past recipients of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship are Kirsten Greenidge, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Jason Grote, Krista Knight, Tommy Smith, Heidi Schreck and Eliza Clark. Quiara Alegría Hudes's Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, which was developed as part of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship in 2005 and produced by Page 73 in 2006, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama in 2007. Jason Grote's 1001, which was developed in part with the support of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and produced in 2006 by Page 73 under the direction of Ethan McSweeny, appeared on Time Out New York's "Top Ten Theater List for 2007". Tommy Smith's The Wife, which was developed as part of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship in 2007, was recently produced and received a rave review in The New York Times. Heidi Schreck's There Are No More Big Secrets, which was developed as part of the Heidi's P73 Playwriting Fellowship in 2009, was recently produced in an extended run at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre.

Janine Nabers is currently a member of The MCC Playwrights Coalition, Ars Nova Play Group and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer's Group. She is an alumna of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Dramatist Guild Playwriting Fellowship program. In 2010, Janine was awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Sundance @ UCross. Her plays include: Annie Bosh is Missing (Developed with Playwrights Horizons and Clubbed Thumb at SuperLab), Welcome to Jesus (developed at Soho Rep), When the Levee Broke (developed at Workshop Theater Company), Juniper; Jubilee (Samuel French Festival Winner 08), West of the Willow Tree (Winner of the 2009 New Professional Theater Award and 2008 Princess Grace Finalist) and Generation Graffiti (Samuel French Festival finalist 09). Janine has recently had plays read/developed with Naked Angels, the Ithaca College Theater Department, Red Fern Theatre Company and the 52nd Street Project. She received her MFA in playwriting from The New School for Drama where she was recently awarded the 2010 New School for Drama/Samuel French Emerging Writer Award. Her short film Bone White was seen at the Columbia University Film Festival last spring. She is currently working on a full-length feature version. She lives in Brooklyn.

PAGE 73 (Producer) (Liz Jones & Asher Richelli, Executive Directors) develops and produces the work of early-career playwrights who have yet to receive substantial production opportunities in New York. Page 73 produces one New York or world premiere by an early-career playwright each year. In addition, Page 73 offers production-oriented development opportunities that help usher the works of early-career playwrights from first draft to final script. Page 73 awards the P73 Playwriting Fellowship each year to one untried playwright; during that year, the company serves as that fellow's artistic home and offers a cash grant and development support to the writer. Past fellows are Kirsten Greenidge, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Jason Grote, Krista Knight, Tommy Smith, Heidi Schreck and Eliza Clark. The current fellow is Janine Nabers. Page 73 also hosts a year-long writing group called "Interstate 73? (current members - Rob Askins, Madeleine George, Mary Hamilton, Greg Keller, Michael Mitnick, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Richard Toth) and a week-long summer residency at Yale for 4 to 5 early-career playwrights. Page 73 developed and produced the world premiere of Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue by Quiara Alegria Hudes (2007 Pulitzer finalist) and the New York premiere of 1001 by Jason Grote (Time Out New York - Top 10 of 2007). The company received from the League of Professional Theatre Women their 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for "innovative and creative work to emerging dramatists". Page 73 presented the world premiere of Sixty Miles to Silver Lake by Dan LeFranc directed by Anne Kauffman and co-produced with Soho Rep (2010 New York Times Playwriting Award); the world premiere of Creature by Heidi Schreck directed by Leigh Silverman and co-produced with with New Georges; the world premiere of Jack's Precious Moment by Samuel D. Hunter directed by Kip Fagan; the world premiere of Edgewise by Eliza Clark directed by Trip Cullman and co-produced with The Play Company. This spring, Page 73 will workshop JON by Chicago-based playwright-director Seth Bockley at 3LD.

In the fall, Page 73 will present the New York premiere of Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig directed by Tea Alagic. For more information visit www.p73.org.

 

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