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Plays
  
The Gulf

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Books
  
Subplots: The Journal of the Perry Library of Theatre, Love Is a Blue Tick Hound and Other Remedies for the Common Ache

Nominations
  
The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical

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Audrey Cefaly is an American Playwright. She is a Southern writer whose work draws inspiration from her home state of Alabama and the Gulf Coast region. Her work is finely tuned to the colorful voices and stories of working-class people and seeks to explore the human condition through intimate character‐driven vignettes expressly designed and edited to effect a cathartic release for the viewer. Cefaly is also an outspoken proponent of silence in story-telling.

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Career Highlights

Cefaly is a recipient of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award (The Gulf), and grants from the Boomerang Fund for Artists as well as the Maryland State Arts Council.

The Gulf

Cefaly's play The Gulf won the 40th Annual Samuel French OOB Festival. Its full length adaptation will receive its world premiere at Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, in September 2016 (directed by Joe Calarco).

Love is a Blue Tick Hound

Cefaly’s collection Love is a Blue Tick Hound is a collection of four one-acts (The Gulf, Fin & Euba, Clean, Stuck) and is published by Samuel French. It will receive its world premiere at Terrific New Theatre in Birmingham, AL, in of December 2016.

Maytag Virgin

In October 2015, Cefaly directed the world premiere of her Southern drama MAYTAG VIRGIN as part of the inaugural Women’s Voices Theatre Festival. The play was warmly received by audiences and critics)

Plays

  • The Gulf
  • Maytag Virgin
  • Love is a Blue Tick Hound
  • Alabaster
  • Awards

  • 2016 Edgerton New American Play Award (The Gulf)
  • Boomerang Fund for Artists Grant Recipient
  • Winner: Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Fin & Euba)
  • Winner: Total Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Fin & Euba)
  • Winner: 2015 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (The Gulf)
  • Winner: Strawberry One-Act Festival: Fin and Euba
  • Publications

  • Love is a Blue Tick Hound (includes one-acts):
  • The Gulf
  • Fin & Euba
  • Clean
  • Stuck
  • Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 40th Series
  • Best American Short Plays 2015-2016
  • Best American Short Plays 2004-2005
  • Audrey Cefaly: Playwright Website
  • Audrey Cefaly: New Play Exchange
  • References

    Audrey Cefaly Wikipedia