jose sebastian alberdi is a Brooklyn-based playwright with Southern Californian roots. alberdi was selected as the 2024 Page 73 Fellow and was awarded an Elizabeth George Commission from South Coast Repertory in the past year.
His plays have been developed with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (2023 National Playwrights Conference), Page 73 (Fellowship, Writers’ Group), Clubbed Thumb (Early Career Writers’ Group 23/24), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Youngblood), Colt Coeur (Residency), The Orchard Project (Greenhouse Lab), Fresh Ground Pepper (BRB Eco-Week), the Huntington Theatre Company (Dream Boston), South Coast Repertory (Elizabeth George Commission, NewSCRipts), Exquisite Corpse Company (Writer’s Lab), and others.
At MacDowell, alberdi rewrote and edited two of his plays, titled bogfriends and rachel, Nevada. He had just completed two workshops with Page 73 in New York City before he arrived at MacDowell. Additionally, he did research for his Elizabeth George Commission play the Empress of tribune.
