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: Radically Single (The Tank Limefest 2026) // Maybe I’m Your Favorite (Chain Theatre Winter One Act Festival 2026)

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

Dramaturg:‍ ‍Broadcast News (staged reading, Center at West Park, director Sheryl Kaller) All the President’s 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 President’s 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 ages 6-14) LHG Creative (screenwriting ages 9-12)

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

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

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