Honor Molloy

Honor Molloy’s plays include THE NEW YORK TIMES Critic’s Pick CRACKSKULL ROW (Irish Repertory Theatre), IN PIGEON HOUSE (Irish Theatre of Chicago), MADAME KILLER (Clubbed Thumb), SNAPSHOT (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival), TONGUES OF STONE (Belvoir Street Theatre), REHEARSING THE GRANDA (The Public Theater), STICKY N JUCIY ON DA SENATE FLOOR (The Public Theater), and MAIDEN VOYAGES (New Georges). Molloy’s plays have been performed at over than 100 theatres across the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, and India. An alumna of New Dramatists, she is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award, the Frederick Loewe Awards for Musical Theater, the Whitfield Cook Award, the Joe Calloway Award, and the Berilla Kerr Award for Playwriting. Additionally, she is a former Radcliffe, Pew, Rockefeller, NEA, NYFA, NYSCA, and PCA Fellow.

Throughout her career, Molloy has completed residencies with Yaddo, MacDowell, Millay Arts, Annaghmakerrig, Hedgebrook, the Tennessee Williams Center, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. She is a former Audrey Skirball-Kennis Playwright-in-Residence at both Lincoln Center Theater in New York and the Royal Court Theatre in London. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, SMARTY GIRL: DUBLIN SAVAGE, was published by Simon & Schuster/Gemma. In 2017, she received a Proclamation from the New York City Council for “Contributions to Irish Culture.” The critic Stanley Crouch once described Molloy as “beyond recommendation, her writing and performances should be mandatory events for all civilized people. She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.