Selected from more than 300 applicants, the ten semifinalists for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship are Melis Aker, Syreeta Briggs, Vichet Chum, Kate Douglas, Ryan Drake, Marvin González De León, Majkin Holmquist, Deepa Purohit, Gab Reisman, and Haygen-Brice Walker. The finalists and the Fellowship recipient will be announced in January 2022. 

Now in its nineteenth year, the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship is the company's most prestigious award, annually supporting a playwright who has yet to have a professional premiere in New York City. Past recipients include DG members Krista Knight, Heidi Schreck, Max Posner, Caroline V. McGraw, Clare Barron, Hansol Jung, C. A. Johnson, and Emma Goidel. The 2021 Playwriting Fellow is Bleu Beckford-Burrell. Each Fellow receives an honorarium of $10,000, and an additional $10,000 in development support from Page 73, which can be personalized to support the Fellow’s proposed project and can include such expenses as research, workshop and reading presentations, and fees for collaborating artists. Each Fellow works with Page 73 on at least one public presentation of the new play, including identifying artistic collaborators like directors, designers, and actors.