grace cahill | writer

BIO

Grace Cahill is a playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, songwriter and journalist born and raised in New York City 

Member: BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop // Second Gen Naked Angels at Center at West Park

Plays: Maybe I’m Your Favorite (Chain Theatre Winter One Act Festival) // The Host Takes it Easy (Second Gen readings)

Screenplays: Departures (Second Gen readings) // The Infiltrators (Act N Sip; Tuesday @9 readings)

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

Dramaturg: All The Presidents Men (staged reading, Center at West Park, Guild Hall East Hampton, director John Benjamin Hickey; starring Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Robert Downey Jr.; All The Presidents Men (staged reading, Stella Adler Academy Los Angeles, director Ethan Silverman starring Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Parker Posey)  All About Eve (staged reading, Center At West Park, starring J Smith Cameron, Julianne Moore); Young Playwrights Ukraine  (dozens of plays written by students living with war performed all over the world, including NYC, Kyiv, London, Stockholm, Sweden and West Bengal, India, since 2022)

Production: Spring 2025 Intern, Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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

Music: Songwriting with Billy Seideman; Years of guitar, choirs, voice lessons and performing original music all over NYC.

Freelance Writing: Long form deeply-reported pieces for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazines.

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