The Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater is a long-term program that provides key support and resources for writers at every stage of their careers. It creates a strong community of supportive artistic relationships across generations. Writers are selected bi-annually and receive a two-year fellowship at The Public which includes a stipend.
Congratulations to the Tisch alumni chosen for this prestigious program!
Click here for a full list of participants in the Emerging Writers Group.
Francisca De Silveira '14 (BFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) (she/her) is a Cape Verdean-American playwright and dramaturg. She received a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a MSc in Playwriting from the University of Edinburgh. In 2018, she made ArtsBoston's list of 10 Contemporary Black Playwrights You Should Know. She has been a finalist for SpeakEasy Stage’s 2018 and 2019 Boston Project Residency and SPACE on Ryder Farm’s 2020 Creative Residency, and was a semi-finalist for the Dennis & Victoria Ross 2018 Playwrights Program, Papatango's 2019 New Play Prize, and Theatre503’s 2019 International Playwriting Award. Her work has also been developed with the Traverse Theatre Scotland, Fresh Ink Theatre, Flat Earth Theatre, The Fire This Time Festival, and Company One Theatre, where she was previously a company dramaturg and Literary Manager. She is currently the Assistant Literary Director at Geva Theatre Centre in Rochester and serves as an At-Large Ambassador with the National New Play Network.
AriDy Nox '18 (MFA, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing) (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary black femme storyteller and social activist with a variety of forward-thinking creative works under her/their belt including the sci-fi operetta Project Tiresias (2018), the ancestral reckoning play A Walless Church (2019), the afrofuturist ecopocalypse musical Metropolis (2019), and many others. Nox creates out of the vehement belief that creating a future in which marginalized peoples are free requires a radical imagination. Their tales are offerings intended to function as small parts of an ancient, expansive, awe-inspiring tradition of world-shaping, created by and for black femmes. As a graduate of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch School of the Performing Arts at NYU and a beneficiary of the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, she has been inordinately privileged to share the workings of her imagination among a vast array of inspiring and supportive artists of various radical backgrounds throughout the city.
Jacob Marx Rice '18 (MFA, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing) (he/him) is a playwright/screenwriter based in Queens, New York. His plays have been produced and developed at The Flea Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The New Ohio, Atlantic Theatre Stage 2, and others. His plays have won the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center (The Suicidal Comedies), the Faculty Award from NYU/Tisch (A Brief List of Everyone Who Died), an EST/Sloan Commission (Binding Energy), and the Excellence in Playwriting Award at the NY Fringe Festival (Chemistry). Rice was the 2017 Playwright Observer at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and is a proud member of the Leadership Team of The Shelter, a New York-based theater company that provides a home for all theater artists.