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Audrey Cefaly

AUDREY CEFALY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Audrey Cefaly is a Southern playwright whose work often draws inspiration from her home state of Alabama and the Gulf Coast region. Her work is finely tuned to the voices and colorful stories of Southern working class people and seeks to explore the human condition with a darkly comic style. Her latest short work, THE GULF, which she is currently adapting into a full-length play, recently won the 40th Annual Samuel French OOB Festival and will soon be published by both Samuel French and Applause Books (Best American Short Plays). The full-length stage play adaptation was recently read at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA (directed by Joe Calarco). Cefaly is also scheduled to be published in 2016 by Smith & Kraus. Her best known play, FIN & EUBA, received a reading at Ensemble Studio Theatre, won the Strawberry One-Act Festival in NYC, and is published in Best American Short Plays. The feature-length film adaptation received the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. Cefaly's short plays (CLEAN, FIN & EUBA, STUCK, THE GULF) have been produced throughout the U.S. and Canada and have collectively won over 20 one-act festivals. She is a 3-time winner of both the Maryland One-Act Festival and the Eastern States One-Act Festival, and the inaugural winner of UMBC's IN10. She was also a finalist for Emerging Artists Theatre's EATFest as well as Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon of One-Act Plays. She directed the world premiere of her new Southern drama MAYTAG VIRGIN for Quotidian Theatre Company (October 2015) as part of the inaugural Women's Voices Theatre Festival. Cefaly is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         [Title Unknown]         Bill, New Guy         Clean         Fin And Euba         Gulf, The         Maytag Virgin         Mill Town Girls         Piano Man         Shortstack V4: the Lunchbox Diner Plays         Stuck

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part of Allies: An evening of One Acts

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Workshop Theatre, NY     2006

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Bill, New Guy

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Bill's first day at a new job. His co-workers are Gina an Italian-American who has morning sickness and Gerald who is waiting to hear if he and his partner can adopt.

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One act. - - Gay, theme/character, one act

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Clean

Clean
Marisol, a worn out waitress, is having the 'worst day of her life.' She and Roberto, a quiet, ununassuming dishwasher, and one who has admired her from afar, sit alone in the diner at midnight and share stories about their lonely lives.

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Winner of 4 one-act festivals.

1st Produced:
Birmingham, AL, Terrific New Theatre     2016

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Short Play 25 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fin And Euba

Fin And Euba
Fin and Euba are friends and co-workers at a paper mill in Cantonment, Florida. they also share space in a rooming house, which they are desperately trying to escape. Unbeknownst to euba, Fin submits some of euba's amateur photos to Life Magazine. euba receives a reply from Life, but is reluctant to open it for fear or rejection, or worse . . . acceptance
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2007 Impact Winter One Act Festival

1st Produced:
Birmingham, AL, Terrific New Theatre     2016

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Contained in: "Best American Short Plays 2004 - 2005" published by Applause Books
in Love Is A Blue Tick Hound, Samuel French, Inc - New York (2016) >>>    978-1557837127

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Gulf, The

Gulf, The
The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra's dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent turn. KEY WORDS: strong roles for women, southern, LGBT, gay, Alabama

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Winner: Samuel French Off off Broadway Short Play Festival

1st Produced:
40th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, NY     03 Aug 2015

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drama, southern, one-act and full-length, lgbt

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Maytag Virgin

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Maytag Virgin follows Alabama school teacher Lizzy Nash and her new neighbor Jack Key over the year following the tragic death of Lizzys husband. The play explores the ideas of inertia and self-enlightenment and the bridge between the two. - See more at: http://www.audreycefaly.org/#sthash.QQSXCGW1.dpuf

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art of the DC Women's Voices Theatre Festival

1st Produced:
Quotidian     2015

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Souther: full length

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Mill Town Girls

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Mill Town Girls (Florida Gulf Coast, circa 1986) explores the earlier lives of the two eponymous characters of Fin and Euba. The play exposes the family dynamics of a lonely Baptist preacher, an eccentric Home Economics teacher, and two strong-willed and struggling young women, learning to come to terms with their lives and prospects. It is intended to be one in a canon of work describing the inhabitants of the small mill town of Cantonment, Florida.

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commissioned prequel to Fin And Euba

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Quotidian     2007

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Souther: full length

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Piano Man

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Albert and Diddy broke up six months ago. albert has been sleeping in a piano store's stockroom since. they meet by accident - will they get back together or will albert's affair with one of his pupils still be a stumbling block?

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

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Shortstack V4: the Lunchbox Diner Plays

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Playwrights residing in D.C., Maryland, And Virginia present A series of short plays set in A standard American diner At Christmas. Playwrights include Renee Calarco, Audrey Cefaly, Joe Dennison, Deborah Finkelstein, Lynne Lerych, Mark Harvey Levine, Steve Lewis, John Shanahan, Gwydion Suilebhan, Jeffery Sweet, And Walter Thinnes.

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Stuck

Stuck
BOB: What's the worst part of internet dating? BETTY: The people? Bob and Bettty are out on their second date when things go terrible wrong. Eager for acceptance and love, Bob pretends to be more than what he is. Betty, somewhat new to the world of dating, seeks counsel on how to restart life after years of 'reckless apathy.'

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Winner of 3 one-act festivals.

1st Produced:
Birmingham, AL, Terrific New Theatre     2016

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Genre:
Short Play 25 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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