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Audrey Cefaly


Audrey Cefaly
Audrey Cefaly is a southern writer and Alabama native based in the DC region. Her plays include The Gulf (Edgerton Award, Lammy Award, Samuel French OOB Fest Winner, Charles MacArthur Award Nominee); Alabaster (2019 NNPN Rolling World Premiere, 2019 Kilroys, 2018 NNPN Showcase, David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, BAPF Semifinalist); Maytag Virgin (Women's Voices Theater Festival); The Last Wide Open (Cincinnati Playhouse commission); The Story of Walter (adaptation of her podcast by the same name); The Believers (Eagle Theatre commission) and Love is a Blue Tick Hound (a collection of award-winning one-acts).

Cefaly’s play Alabaster will receive a Rolling World Premiere (NNPN) in 2019-2020 to a record-breaking 10 theaters across the country, including Florida Rep, Salt Lake Acting Co, Know Theatre, Cap Stage, NJ Rep, Kitchen Dog Theatre, 16th Street Theater and others.

Cefaly has developed plays with the National New Play Network, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Signature Theatre, About Face Theatre, Vermont Stage, Serenbe Playhouse (New Territories), Aurora Theatre, Florida Rep, Theater Alliance, Quotidian Theatre Company, University of Alabama - Birmingham, and Contemporary American Theater Festival. She is published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus (two volumes of Best American Short Plays), and Applause Books.

Cefaly is a member of the 2019 Playwrights' Arena cohort at Arena Stage and was recently named a Traveling Master by the Dramatist Guild Foundation. She is an outspoken proponent of silence in story-telling and has authored numerous articles on the topic of playwriting for HowlRound and Samuel French’s Breaking Character Magazine. Cefaly is a recipient of grants from the Boomerang Fund for Artists as well as the Alabama and Maryland state arts councils. www.audreycefaly.com

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