Halley Feiffer

Halley Feiffer is a WGA-, Drama Desk-, Drama League- and Outer Critics Circle-nominated writer and actor. She is currently writing and showrunning Season 12 of Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story, starring Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian. Additional TV writing and producing credits include The One Percent (Starz), Mozart in the Jungle, Rodeo Queens, Daddy (Amazon), Purity, Kidding, SMILF (Showtime), Impeachment: American Crime Story (FX, WGA Nom.), Roar and Dear Edward (Apple TV+), as well as original pilots for FX, TNT, Freeform, Hulu, Netflix and Apple TV+. She is currently developing an hour-long erotic thriller for Amazon with PKM Productions and a show with Made Up Stories / Fifth Season.

Plays include I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (World Premiere Atlantic Theater Company, OCC Nom.), Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow (World Premiere Williamstown Theater Festival and MCC Theater, Drama Desk and Drama League Noms), The Pain of My Belligerence (World Premiere Playwrights Horizons), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City (World Premiere MCC Theater, Edgerton New Play Award, NY Times Critics’ Pick) and How To Make Friends and Then Kill Them (World Premiere Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). Her plays have been produced around the country and in the UK, and are published by Dramatists Play Service and Overlook Press. She is writing the book for the Broadway-bound stage adaptation of Thelma & Louise, with Neko Case composing.

Acting credits include the Broadway revivals of The Front Page and The House of Blue Leaves (Theater World Award) as well as numerous off-Broadway productions including Tigers Be Still (Roundabout, Drama League Nom.) and her own play The Pain of My Belligerence (Drama League Nom.). She also starred in the West Coast premiere of her play A Funny Thing Happened... at the Geffen Playhouse in LA. TV & film roles include HBO’s Mildred Pierce, Flight of the Conchords and Bored to Death and the films The Squid and the Whale, Gentlemen Broncos and He’s Way More Famous than You, which she also co-wrote. She is currently developing a film adaptation of her play The Pain of My Belligerence with Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going for her to direct.

She lives in Los Angeles with her partner Tim, and tries - a day at a time - not to kill her houseplants.