The three Boston-area playwrights will embark on a two-year residency at Huntington. Each playwright will receive grant money, take part in bi-weekly writers' meetings and have access to resources from the Huntington staff and facilities.

"The Huntington is committed to being a well-rounded company that produces the best work by local, national, and international artists," said Huntington director of new work Lisa Timmel in a statement. "The Huntington Playwriting Fellows program allows us to create thriving working relationships with writers at all stages as they develop their work for production."

Patrick Gabridge is the author of the plays Constant State of Panic, Pieces of Whitey, Blinders and Reading the Mind of God. His first novel, "Tornado Siren," was published in 2006. He is the co-founder of Boston's Rhombus Playwrights' group and the Chameleon Stage theatre company in Denver.

Martha Jane Kaufman’s plays include House and Junction and A Live Dress. She has received awards and commissions from the San Francisco Playwrights’ Foundation, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Stark Raving Theater, and Young Playwrights Inc.

Ryan Landry's Boston-based troupe the Gold Dust Orphans produces satirical "mash-ups" of pop culture – comedic, dramatic, or musical – in both Provincetown and Boston. Past productions include Willy Wanker and the Hershey Highway, All About Christmas Eve, Death of a Saleslady, Medea, A T-Stop Named Denial, Christmas on the Pole, and Valet of the Dolls. He is currently in rehearsal for Phantom of the Oprah, writing his next musical, Peter Pansy, and at work on a surrealist adaptation of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Visit Huntington TheatreCompany.