Grace Cahill is a writer, director, and songwriter from New York City. She graduated from Kenyon College in 2024 with a BA in English. In the spring of 2025 she was an intern at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She wrote for Cosmopolitan Magazine throughout college and Seventeen Magazine while at Stuyvesant High School which she graduated from in 2020.

Her directing work includes Boom, by Karina Styrota 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 writing includes 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. and an original pilot script, This is For Your Safety, about three aimless young people looking for aliens in the Hamptons. 

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.

She’s in the process of co-founding second generation Naked Angels for young writers, directors, and actors at Center at West Park.