About Page 121

It is our mission at PAGE 121 to provide a gateway for young, emerging theatre artists to write, design, perform in, and produce both new and established plays, utilizing their creative gifts and talents to the fullest.

We believe that playwrights craft their narratives with the expectation that they will be told and told well. Too often, young artists are excluded from this step, finding neither the means nor the audience to justify their maximum efforts. With PAGE 121, we hope to give emerging talents the privilege of engaging in complete productions.

The name PAGE 121 refers to a moment in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull when Nina reminds Trigorin of one of the most important lines from his novel, Days and Nights. He flips to page 121 of the book and reads:

  If you ever need my life, come take it.

Here is the pivotal line in a classic play about young artists, and we have adopted it as a reminder of our professional values. Theatre is an act of sacrifice, of giving all you can to your audience and fellow artists when they need you the most. At PAGE 121, we hope that our productions will offer as much as they can to those who will always need the stage.