Grace Cahill is a writer, director, and songwriter from New York City. She graduated from Kenyon College in 2024 with a BA in English and Stuyvesant High School in 2020.

In the spring of 2025 she was an intern at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She’s currently working on the benefit reading of All the Presidents Men by William Goldman, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, produced by Julianne Hoffenberg.

Her directing work includes Boom, by Karina Syrota and Life is Absurd but Love is Good, by Asia Pshenychna, as a part of Young Playwrights Ukraine @ The Tank with actors Leela Bassuk, Catherine Curtin, Taya Fedorenko, Rory Greenwood, Jonny James Kajoba and Isabel Renner. Best Daughter, a one act play by Rayna Berggren starring Patricia Randell and Brynn Gautheir at the Producers Club and Too Close a short play by Uliana Klimchuk, starring Misha Brooks and Julia Kim Caldwell for Young Playwrights Ukraine at The Segal Center World Voices Reading Series.

Her plays include Absolute Beginners, set in a West Village restaurant during the dinner shift, Maybe I’m Your Favorite, a play about two lonely college students, and The Host Takes it Easy, set in Leipzig, where members of the Nazi regime were the proverbial hosts of the horror, and “rested” through the “party” of liberation by poisoning themselves. She’s working on a screenplay set in the world of post college friends in NYC who get seduced into what looks like corporate espionage. She has an original pilot script, This is For Your Safety, about three aimless young people looking for aliens in the Hamptons. As a journalist she’s written long form articles for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen.

In late winter, 2022, during spring break from her sophomore year of college, Grace helped found Young Playwrights Ukraine, which grew into an internationally known theater project for young Ukrainian students living with war. She’s worked as their dramaturg on dozens of plays for over three years.

In the summer of 2023, she wrote and directed The Caravaggio Show, a web series starring Petro Ninovskyi, Isabel Renner, Trí Lê and Gabriel Gaston.

She’s written original musicals and performed as a singer-songwriter all around NYC since she was a teenager.