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Honor Molloy

Playwright

Program:
National Showcase of New Plays

Honor Molloy’s plays include the New York Times Critic’s Pick Crackskull Row (Irish Repertory Theatre), In Pigeon House (Irish Theatre of Chicago), Madame Killer (Clubbed Thumb), Monument (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival), Tongues of Stone (Belvoir Street Theatre), Lesbian Cheek (WOW Café), Rehearsing the Granda (The Public Theater), Sticky ’n’ Juicy on da Senate Floor (The Public Theater), and Maiden Voyages (New Georges). She is a former Radcliffe, Pew, Rockefeller, NEA, NYFA, NYSCA, and PCA Fellow. An alumna of New Dramatists, she is a recipient of two Frederick Loewe Awards for Musical Theater, the Whitfield Cook Award, the Joe Calloway Award, and the Berilla Kerr Award for Playwriting. Molloy has completed residencies with Yaddo, MacDowell, Millay, Annaghmakerrig, Hedgebrook, the Tennessee Williams Center, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. She is a former Playwright-in-Residence at Lincoln Center Theater, the Royal Court Theatre, the Australian National Playwrights’ Centre, the Playwrights’ Center, and Nancy Manocherian’s the cell. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage, was published by Simon & Schuster Audio in 2012. In 2017, she received a proclamation from the New York City Council for “Contributions to Irish Culture.” She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.