grace cahill | writer

bio

Grace Cahill is a playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, composer and lyricist born and raised in New York City 

Member: BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop // The 86th Street Group at CWP (based on legacy of 90’s theater company Naked Angels)

Plays: Maybe I’m Your Favorite (Chain Theatre Winter One Act Festival) // Don’t you Wish You Had the Shitty Seats Now  (readings with The Group) // The Host Takes it Easy (readings with The Group) // Absolute Beginners // Earthquake on the Upper West Side (reading Tuesday @ 9)

Screenplays: Departures (The 86th Street Group) // The Infiltrators (Tuesday @9)

Director: Boom, Life is Absurd But Love is Good  (Young Playwrights Ukraine at The Tank NYC ) // Best Daughter (Producers Club) // Too Close (Segal Center) // Directing for Actors ESPA (John Gould Rubin)

Dramaturg: All The Presidents Men (CWP benefit staged reading, Guild Hall East Hampton, dir JBH; starring Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Robert Downey Jr.; All The Presidents Men (staged reading, Stella Adler Academy Los Angeles, dir Ethan Silverman starring Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Parker Posey)  All About Eve (CWP benefit staged reading, St Pauls, New York, starring J Smith Cameron, Julianne Moore); Young Playwrights Ukraine  (dozens of plays written by students living with war performed in NYC, Minneapolis, Kyiv, London, Stockholm and Mumbai since 2022)

Production:Spring 2025 Intern, Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Teaching: Writopia Lab NYC (debate) LHG Creative (screenwriting)

Education: BA in English from Kenyon College 2024;. Stuyvesant High School class of 2020