MAINSTAGE
WORLD PREMIERE
EXTENDED! April 8 - May 10, 2024
Page 73 presents
Stargazers
Written by Majkin Holmquist
Directed by Colette Robert
Tickets: $5 - $100
All tickets are available through a Name Your Price system. The lowest Name Your Price ticket is $5 for the first week of performances and increases by $10 each week.
Runtime: Estimated at 100 minutes
A grieving mother contemplates selling her Kansas farm—guided, she says, by the ghost of her daughter. While her ex-husband and neighbors fight to keep the land, an East Coast developer hopes to build a progressive utopia that would alter the landscape forever.
About the Artists
Majkin Holmquist is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. She is the 2023 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. Her play Tent Revival received a digital production through Paula Vogel’s Bard at the Gate series in partnership with the McCarter Theatre Center in 2023. Other plays include two headed calf, Every Anne Frank, Quickmatch, Dog Pack Play, and Skinflint. Credits include The Quonsets (co-written with Alex Lubischer, Yale Cabaret), Broken Melodies (WVIT Women in Theatre Festival), and Styx Songs (contributing writer, Yale Cabaret). Her work has been developed at New York Stage and Film, Woodshed Collective, Bay Street Theatre, Page 73, Ucross, and Roundabout Theatre Company. She is currently a member of Midnight Oil Collective, Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group, and is a Lecturer in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She holds a BA in Secondary English Education from Bethany College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
Colette Robert is a director and playwright from Los Angeles, based in New York. She directed the world premieres of STEW by Zora Howard at Page 73 (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Behind the Sheet by Charly Evon Simpson at Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a member. She recently directed the first New York revival of Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage with Keen Company. Regional credits include City Theatre Company, Penumbra Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Colette is an alumnus of The Drama League's Beatrice Terry Residency, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and The Public Theater’s Van Lier Directing Fellowship. Her play The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel, which she also directed, premiered last spring, produced by The Movement Theatre Company and New Georges. She is an adjunct lecturer at NYU and the 2023 SDCF Denham Fellow.
Photos by Daniel J Vasquez.
Director Colette Robert
Playwright Majkin Holmquist
About Page 73
Page 73 is a Tony and Obie Award-winning theater company that exclusively produces playwrights’ Off-Broadway debuts. Page 73 developed and, with Playwrights Horizons, produced the world premiere of Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop, whose awards included the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical. Page 73’s two dozen celebrated world and New York premieres include Zora Howard’s STEW (Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, (Finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Mia Chung’s Catch as Catch Can, Clare Barron’s You Got Older, Leah Nanako Winkler’s Kentucky, Heidi Schreck’s Creature, George Brant’s Grounded, and John J. Caswell, Jr.’s Man Cave.
Page 73 additionally offers career guidance, financial assistance, and development opportunities through annual playwright development programs including a fellowship, writers group, workshops, writing retreats, and residencies.
In 2020, the organization was honored with an institutional Obie Award “for providing extraordinary support for early career playwrights.”
Read more at www.page73.org
UPSTAIRS
NEW YORK PREMIERE
April 18 - 21, 2024
Fishmarket Theater presents
Insertion
Written by Sarah Groustra
Directed by Nadia Atkinson
Tickets: $18 - $25
About the Show
Maisie has finally landed an apprenticeship at the prestigious Red Key Publishing House, with the acclaimed fiction writer Gilda Tarrington assigned as her mentor. But posh, ancient Gilda has a secret: she’s really the mind behind the famous pseudonym of an erotic paperback empire, and she believes Maisie has the potential to be her successor. Determined not to lose her first major writing opportunity, Maisie sets out to learn everything she can about sex in a series of hilarious, harrowing, and heartwarming escapades.Maisie has finally landed an apprenticeship at the prestigious Red Key Publishing House, with the acclaimed fiction writer Gilda Tarrington assigned as her mentor. But posh, ancient Gilda has a secret: she’s really the mind behind the famous pseudonym of an erotic paperback empire, and she believes Maisie has the potential to be her successor. Determined not to lose her first major writing opportunity, Maisie sets out to learn everything she can about sex in a series of hilarious, harrowing, and heartwarming escapades.
About the Artists
Sarah Groustra (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based, Massachusetts-born playwright and theatermaker. Sarah's work has been produced off-Broadway at the SheNYC Festival at the Connelly Theater and at regional theaters across the country. She was a finalist for the 2023 Jane Chambers Award, was named a 2022 Ascending Playwright by Yonder Window Theater Company, and was the recipient of the 2021 James E. Michael Playwriting Prize. Sarah has developed new work with Under Construction Playwright's Group (the Road Theater), Yonder Window New Works Collective, the Parsnip Ship New Play Group, Forager Theater Company, and Historically Close Friends. Sarah is an alumna of Kenyon College (2022), the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals (2022), and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. sarahgroustra.com // @ladypoachedegg
Nadiya Atkinson (Director) is a director from a houseplant and immigrant household. Her work employs interdisciplinary tactility, bold patterns, and site specificity to navigate her relationship with geography and community. She’s the Humanities Manager at Theatre for a New Audience and has worked at the O’Neill Theater Center, the Vineyard, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Signature Theatre Company. Nadiya graduated from the National Theatre Institute’s Advanced Directing Program and holds a B.A. in Theatre with Honors from Williams College. nadiyaatkinson.com
About fishmarket theater co.
fishmarket theatre co. is an NYC-based circus-raised, physical-theatre-based group celebrating reimagined, innovative storytelling. From creating installation-art Shakespeare to developing fanfiction-inspired dark comedies, fishmarket focuses on dimensional, interdisciplinary work with collaborative storytelling at its center. We bring shows outside of traditional venues, into spaces where they can converse with geography and community and revel in the playful, imaginative, and fully-embodied. Follow our dreams + schemes at fishmarkettheatre.com