Graham Techler

Graham Techler won the 2025 Richard Rodgers Award for the musical HELSINKI (Upcoming; The New Group, Selection; NAMT). His other plays include THE PANIC OF '29 (59E59) with Julia Knitel, THE TYCOONS! (Less Than Rent), and LANE GAULLSON'S REVENGE (The Brick). He is a member of EST/Youngblood, an Edward Albee Fellow, an artist in residence with Colt Coeur, and the recipient of a commission from Clubbed Thumb. Alum; BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Project, Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project. Finalist; Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Semifinalist; Eugene O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference, Rattlestick/Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, American Music Theatre Project. He is also known for contributing Shouts & Murmurs for...

Graham Techler won the 2025 Richard Rodgers Award for the musical HELSINKI (Upcoming; The New Group, Selection; NAMT). His other plays include THE PANIC OF '29 (59E59) with Julia Knitel, THE TYCOONS! (Less Than Rent), and LANE GAULLSON'S REVENGE (The Brick). He is a member of EST/Youngblood, an Edward Albee Fellow, an artist in residence with Colt Coeur, and the recipient of a commission from Clubbed Thumb. Alum; BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Project, Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project. Finalist; Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Semifinalist; Eugene O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference, Rattlestick/Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, American Music Theatre Project. He is also known for contributing Shouts & Murmurs for The New Yorker, and for his performances of original monologues at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre with the cult comedy collective Characters Welcome, which have received millions of online views. Other writing has been published by Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, River Styx Magazine, XRAY, Faultline, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He lives in Brooklyn, and is represented by UTA.

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Scripts

Helsinki

by Graham Techler

Cast Size
5—10
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
musical,
romantic comedy

A deadpan love story between ​a factory worker and waitress set against the backdrop of the most depressing time to live in the most depressing city in the world. Co-written with Barrett Riggins.

A deadpan love story between ​a factory worker and waitress set against the backdrop of the most depressing time to live in the most depressing city in the world. Co-written with Barrett Riggins.

The Panic of '29

by Graham Techler

Cast Size
10
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
farce,
period,
satire

A Wall Street financier finds himself facing down a national crisis alongside his secretary, a cabaret singer, the owner of a speakeasy, a beat cop, a pulp fiction writer, and many others. Ten actors play thirty-four characters in a three part ahistorical epic comedy about the end of America.

A Wall Street financier finds himself facing down a national crisis alongside his secretary, a cabaret singer, the owner of a speakeasy, a beat cop, a pulp fiction writer, and many others. Ten actors play thirty-four characters in a three part ahistorical epic comedy about the end of America.

Trust Fund

by Graham Techler

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
farce,
romantic comedy,
satire

A con artist forms an alliance with a young writer to swindle the largest trust fund in the world away from his old Yale buddy Alvin Anselman: the youngest in a family of arms dealers on permanent vacation in Europe. But the plan quickly goes awry when Alvin decides to get more involved in their lives than they bargained for.

A con artist forms an alliance with a young writer to swindle the largest trust fund in the world away from his old Yale buddy Alvin Anselman: the youngest in a family of arms dealers on permanent vacation in Europe. But the plan quickly goes awry when Alvin decides to get more involved in their lives than they bargained for.

The Tycoons!

by Graham Techler

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
period,
romantic comedy,
satire

New York City, 1902. A sheepish law student courts the daughter of the nation’s most powerful railroad magnate, giving way to a series of plots, counter plots, and counter-counter plots that will suck in and take down everyone that the young lovers have ever met and/or held dear.

New York City, 1902. A sheepish law student courts the daughter of the nation’s most powerful railroad magnate, giving way to a series of plots, counter plots, and counter-counter plots that will suck in and take down everyone that the young lovers have ever met and/or held dear.

New York City Girls Will Kill You

by Graham Techler

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Amy, Jessica, Christina, and Karen are going out! At a Garden of Eden-themed club night in Manhattan, they find themselves questioning their costumes, their dates, and, most importantly, tonightʼs theme, and what it means for them.

Amy, Jessica, Christina, and Karen are going out! At a Garden of Eden-themed club night in Manhattan, they find themselves questioning their costumes, their dates, and, most importantly, tonightʼs theme, and what it means for them.

The Moderators

by Graham Techler

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
musical,
political,
satire

Lee is an overworked office drone at Coaxial, a company contracted by Facebook to review and remove content deemed too disturbing for the public. When he finds evidence that could potentially stop some of the acts being posted, he has to convince his chipper manager to take action in a darkly comic look at Big Tech's underbelly. Co-written with Barrett Riggins.

Lee is an overworked office drone at Coaxial, a company contracted by Facebook to review and remove content deemed too disturbing for the public. When he finds evidence that could potentially stop some of the acts being posted, he has to convince his chipper manager to take action in a darkly comic look at Big Tech's underbelly. Co-written with Barrett Riggins.