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

In September 2025 she joined the esteemed BMI Musical Theater Workshop.

Grace was the dramaturg on a staged reading of All the Presidents Men by William Goldman, directed by John Benjamin Hickey and produced by Julianne Hoffenberg for Center at West Park, held at Guild Hall in East Hampton in August 2025. The reading was introduced by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward and starred Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore, J Smith Cameron, Ramy Youssef, and a long list of stars.

In the spring of 2025 she was an intern at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She worked on several departments, but her favorites were news research, segment research, production, and house band. She submitted three headlines that made it on air.

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 and HowlRound TV.

Her plays and screenplays have been read in NYC and on Zoom. Her plays in development include 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, Great Books, set on January 3rd, 2020 in Stuyvesant High School, while the senior class reacts to the news of Solamani’s killing and plans the prom and graduation that will never come. Last Date, set in two lonely college dorms.  She’s working on a screenplay, The Infiltrators, about 20-something year-old friends in Manhattan who get seduced into what looks like corporate espionage. She’s also written and 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. Their plays have been performed on Zoom and in-person at theaters including The Tank, the Vineyard Theatre, and The Segal Theatre in New York, Orion Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, Ukraine Fringe in Kyiv, La Grange Theater in Dorset Vermont, Lex-Ham Theater in Minneapolis, Cockpit Theater in London and as far away as West Bengal, India. The plays are a part of Worldwide Ukrainian Readings and have been published by Smith & Kraus.

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.