grace cahill | writer

BIO

I’m a playwright, songwriter, dramaturg, and director born and raised in New York City.

My play Radically Single is part of The Tank LimeFest 2026, directed by Julia Kim Caldwell with Max Burkholder, Kay Benson, and Taylor Dunbar. I joined the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in fall 2025. I’ve been a dramaturg on all-star readings for Center at West Park including All The Presidents Men at Guild Hall East Hampton, directed by John Benjamin Hickey with Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and Robert Downey Jr., as well as Broadcast News, All About Eve, and The Big Chill. As a director I’ve worked at The Tank, The Producers Club, and Segal Center Theatre.

In 2022, as a sophomore in college I helped my mother, writer Laura Cahill, found Young Playwrights Ukraine for students living with war. I have worked intensely with YPU for over four years and have been the dramaturg on dozens of plays that have gone on to be performed in NYC, Minneapolis, London, Stockholm, Kyiv, and all over the world from Dorset, Vermont to West Bengal, India.

I was a Spring 2025 intern for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I have bylines in Cosmopolitan and Seventeen.

I graduated with a B.A. in English from Kenyon College in 2024. And I’m a proud graduate of Stuyvesant High School.