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Halley Feiffer

HALLEY FEIFFER

  (1984 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Diana Glazer

Halley Feiffer (born November 20, 1984) is a New York-based writer and actress. Her full-length plays include I'M GONNA PRAY FOR YOU SO HARD (World Premiere Atlantic Theater Company  January 2015, dir. Trip Cullman), HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS AND THEN KILL THEM (World Premiere Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre  2014, dir. Kip Fagan), SIDNEY AND LAURA, and A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT AT MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER. She is currently a writer on the Starz series THE ONE PERCENT. Her plays have been produced, commissioned and developed by Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, LAByrinth Theater Company, The O'Neill, The Orchard Project, Berkshire Theatre Group, Naked Angels, Cape Cod Theatre Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Keen Company, Partial Comfort Productions and the Amoralists. She is currently working on a stage adaption of THE BOY KINGS, Kate Losse's memoir about working at Facebook during its rising year. Halley is an alumna of terraNOVA's Groundbreakers Playwrights' Group, a former resident writer for Blue Man Group, former Playwright in Residence at Stella Adler Studio and a winner of the Young Playwrights Competition and the Lotos Foundation Prize. She is currently under commission by Manhattan Theatre Club/The Sloan Foundation, Jen Hoguet Productions and Playwrights Horizons. Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service, Overlook Press, Vintage Books, Applause Books, and Smith & Kraus. Halley co-wrote and starred in the 2013 film HE's WAY MORE FAMOUS THAN YOU, and co-created and stars in the web series WHAT's YOUR EMERGENCY for Stage17.tv (both directed by Michael Urie). As an actress, she has appeared in Jon Robin Baitz' THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE (Second Stage), Ethan Coen's WOMEN OR NOTHING (Atlantic, dir. David Cromer), Kenneth Lonergan's MEDIEVAL PLAY (Signature, dir. Kenneth Lonergan), the Broadway revival of John Guare's THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES (dir. David Cromer), Kim Rosenstock's TIGERS BE STILL (Roundabout; Drama League Nom., dir. Sam Gold), HBO's BORED TO DEATH and MILDRED PIERCE, and the films THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, and GENTLEMEN BRONCOS. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University.

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

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below is a list of Halley Feiffer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Dear Darkness. . .Plays That Go Bump in the Night         Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynaecological Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City, A         How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them         I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard         Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow         Pain Of My Belligerence, The         Sidney And Laura
Dear Darkness. . .Plays That Go Bump in the Night

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Jade Lane and Michael Puzzo present an evening of one-act plays, embodying all the glorious disguise and mystique of the eeriest holiday. With all new plays by John Patrick Shanley, Michael Puzzo, Bekah Brunstetter, Adam Szymkowicz, Halley Feiffer, David Bar Katz, and a few spooky surprises.

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New Ohio theatre
154 Christopher Street, Ste. 1e, New York City, NY 10014     04 Oct 2012

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short play

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Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynaecological Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City, A

Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynaecological Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City, A
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1st Produced:
MCC Theatre, NY     Spring 2016

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Dramatists Play Service   

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Comedy

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How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them

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Left to their own devices by their alcoholic mother, Ada and Sam cultivate an insular world into which they soon draw a third wheela pockmarked, limping wallflower named Dorrie. In the years spanning childhood to young adulthood, these three troubled girls learn to lean on each other completely, finding ways to fill each other up and tear each other down. But when a horrible accident upends their reality, they find they must decide whether to continue to foster their codependent cycle, or to break free, with or without each other's aid.

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1st Produced:
Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre     2014

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   

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Genre:
dark comedy

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I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard

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Ella is a precocious and fiercely competitive actress whose sole aim in life is making her famous playwright father David proud. Over the course of a boozy, drug-fueled evening, Ella and David deliberate over whether to read the reviews of her off-Broadway debut. . . and things unravel from there. This daring and irreverent new plays pulls the audience into the middle of a deeply complicated relationship and sheds new light on the eternal struggles of parents and children to find common ground.

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I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard was developed during a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference in 2014

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Genre:
one act dark comedy 90 min

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Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow

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Three sisters long to go to Moscow

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Pain Of My Belligerence, The

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Cat is a brilliant journalist on her way to greatness. She starts dating Guy even though he is married. Over the years her success, social circle and independence are all eaten away by her parasitic lover. She is also battling Lyme Disease

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Genre:
Black comedy

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Sidney And Laura

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