Grace Cahill is a writer, director, and songwriter from New York City. She graduated from Kenyon College in 2024 with a BA in English and a concentration in Creative Writing. She’s currently a production intern at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 

As a journalist she’s covered politics and current events for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazines. 

Since returning to NYC, she directed “Best Daughter,” a one act play by Rayna Berggren starring Patricia Randell and Brynn Gaultier 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. Most recently, she co-founded a lab for young writers, actors, and directors in NYC.

She wrote an original pilot script, This is For Your Safety, about three aimless young people looking for aliens in the Hamptons and a play, Absolute Beginners, set in a West Village restaurant during the dinner shift.

She’s currently working on a new play, 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.

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 almost 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.