Audrey Cefaly
Quick Facts
Biography
Audrey Cefaly is an American playwright.
Career highlights
Cefaly is a recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBTQ Drama (The Gulf), the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award] (The Gulf), and the 2017 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize.
Alabaster
Cefaly's play Alabaster won the 2017 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize from Marin Theatre Company.
The Gulf
Cefaly's play The Gulf won the 40th Annual Samuel French OOB Festival. Its full length adaptation received its world premiere at Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, in September 2016 (directed by Joe Calarco). In 2017, it was nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical (Helen Hayes Awards) and in 2018, the play won the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBTQ Drama.
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 and Stuck) and is published by Samuel French. It received 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 Last Wide Open
- Alabaster
- The Gulf
- Maytag Virgin
- Love is a Blue Tick Hound
Awards
- Winner: 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Drama (The Gulf)
- Winner: 2017 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize (Alabaster)
- Nominee: 2017 Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical (Helen Hayes Awards) (The Gulf)
- Recipient: 2015 Edgerton New American Play Award (The Gulf)
Publications
- Maytag Virgin
- The Gulf
- 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 2014-2015
- Best American Short Plays 2004-2005