Audrey Cefaly

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.^[1] Cefaly is also an outspoken proponent of silence in story-telling.^[2]

Career Highlights

Cefaly is a recipient of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award (The Gulf),^[3] 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).^[4]

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.^[5]

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.^[6] The play was warmly received by audiences and critics)^[7]

Plays

• The Gulf^[8]
• Maytag Virgin^[9]
• Love is a Blue Tick Hound ^[10]
• Alabaster ^[11]

Awards

• 2016 Edgerton New American Play Award (The Gulf)^[12]
• 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)^[13]
• Winner: Strawberry One-Act Festival: Fin and Euba^[14]

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

Related Links

• Audrey Cefaly: Playwright Website
• Audrey Cefaly: New Play Exchange

References

1. "audrey-cefaly-writer". Retrieved 2016-08-26.
2. "Silence is Golden: The Electric Properties of Subtext in Playwriting - Breaking Character". 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
3. http://www.tcg.org/tools/newplays/TheGulf.cfm
4. "The Gulf — Signature Theatre". Signature Theatre. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
5. http://www.terrificnewtheatre.com/love-is-a-blue-tick-hound
6. "Women's Voices Theater Festival - Play Detail". www.womensvoicestheaterfestival.org. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
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13. http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/59583/off-off-broadway-festival-plays-40th-series
14. http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/60111/fin-euba