New Dramatists: Honor Molloy

	Honor Molloy *(formerly Honour Kane)* c/o New Dramatists 424 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 (212) 757-6960 (212) 265-4738 fax Email: newdramatists@newdramatists.org

Honor Molloy's plays have been produced by the Public Theatre New Works, Sydney’s Annual Mardi Gras Arts Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, BACA Downtown, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Theatre Outlet in Allentown, PA, and Ireland’s Inishbofin Arts Festival. Her work has been developed by A.S.K. at Lincoln Center Theater, London’s Royal Court Theatre, Seattle Rep/Hedgebrook Women’s Playwrights Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playlabs, JAW/West, Curious Theatre Company, City Theatre in Pittsburgh and Arkansas Rep. She holds fellowships from the NEA, NYFA (2002, 1990), a NYSCA Individual Theatre Artist Commission, a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard/Radcliffe, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, residencies at the Edward F. Albee Foundation, MacDowell and Yaddo, as well as a Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award. A resident playwright of New Dramatists, she has been graced with awards specific to that organization that include: an Australian National Playwrights’ Conference Exchange; a Whitfield Cook Prize; Working Sessions, a music-theatre development partnership between New Dramatists and the Summer Play Festival; and the 2003 Frederick Loewe Award.

autodelete://beginning dump of physical memory// CRACKSKULL ROW IN PIGEON HOUSE MADAME KILLER NEBRASKA KISS MURPHY
_{honor molloy} autodelete://beginning dump of physical memory// A Dark Comedy, 90 Minutes, No Interval 3M, 1W Flexible Set "Memory ain't truth. It's a twisted cocktail of perceptions, wants, and strategic deletions." Kick Malone--publisher/story merchant/high-flying media babe—has 20 bestsellers on the list when she loses her mind.
_{honor molloy} CRACKSKULL ROW A Dark Comedy, 90 Minutes, No Interval 2M, 2W Unit Set Down the back lanes where the gardens aren't kept lies Crackskull Row -- the Dublin cul-de-sac where Masher Moorigan shares a ruined house with a tribe of ghosts who dog her with the sins of '66. Masher is lost to the time when: the IRA blasted Lord Nelson from his pillar on O'Connell Street, she still had goldy hair, and her husband, Basher -- a fiddling man -- streeled the roads, busking to drink and drinking to busk.
_{honor molloy} IN PIGEON HOUSE A Dark Comedy, 90 Minutes, No Interval 2M, 2W Flexible theater An acrobatic, hallucinatory romp through Irish theatrical history. Inspired by actual stories from Ireland's "fit-up" artists, IN PIGEON HOUSE tracks a band of kickabout actors as they travel Ireland's allover. Dramatic extravaganzas that feature variety acts, high drama, the fil-ums, and . . . raffle contests.
_{honor molloy} MADAME KILLER Co-written with Diana Kane A Dark Comedy of Manners, 90 Minutes, No Interval 1M, 4 F Flexible Set Gotham, 1878. Set in the parlors and back rooms of Manhattan Society, this Gothic Noir features Mme Restell -- New-York City's elegant and devious power broker, self-made millionaire, and underworld doctress.
_{honor molloy} MURPHY with original music by Corey Dargel New music/performance work, 55 minutes, no interval Flexible set Utilizes performance text authored by Honor’s father—the Irish actor, John Molloy—posits “what happens when all the stage is a murphy bed?”


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