Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Honor Molloy

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Jackson Heights, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002, 2006
Honor Molloy is the author of the autobiographical novel Smarty Girl—Dublin Savage, a fictionalized version of her childhood in Ireland. Her play Crackskull Row (New York Times Critic’s Pick) was developed and produced by Nancy Manocherian’s the cell. This world premiere won best production and best direction (Kira Simring) awards as part of Origin’s First Irish Theatre Festival 2016. The Irish Repertory Theatre subsequently moved the cell’s production to their W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre for a seven-week run. An alumna of New Dramatists, Molloy has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a fellowship year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her playwriting credits include Last Night [again] (Origin’s First Irish Theatre Festival); And In My Heart (International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival); In Pigeon House (Irish Theatre of Chicago); Madame Killer (Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney / Clubbed Thumb, New York City); and Rehearsing the Granda (Public Theatre / BACA Downtown).

Studios

Garland

Honor Molloy worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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