Audrey Cefaly

Audrey Cefaly is an American playwright.
Career highlights.
Cefaly is a recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBTQ Drama (The Gulf), the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, (The Gulf), and the 2017 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize.
Alabaster.
Cefaly's play Alabaster won the 2017 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize from Marin Theatre Company. In January 2020 the play embarked on a record-breaking 11-city National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere and was subsequently nominated for the Pulitzer by Florida Repertory Theatre.
The Gulf.
Cefaly's play The Gulf won the 40th Annual Samuel French OOB Festival. Its full length adaptation received its world premiere at Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, in September 2016 (directed by Joe Calarco). In 2017, it was nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical (Helen Hayes Awards) and in 2018, the play won the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBTQ Drama.
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" and "Stuck") and is published by Samuel French. It received its world premiere at Terrific New Theatre in Birmingham, AL, in of December 2016.
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".
The Last Wide Open.
In February 2019, Cefaly's musical play "The Last Wide Open" (music by Matthew Nielson) received its world premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.