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Honor Molloy

Alumni Playwright

Honor Molloy’s plays include the New York Times Critics’ Pick Crackskull Row (Irish Repertory Theatre); and in my heart (International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival); In Pigeon House (Irish Theatre of Chicago); Madame Killer (Clubbed Thumb); Monument (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival); Tongues of Stone (Belvoir Street Theatre); Rehearsing the Granda (The Public Theater); Sticky and Juicy on da Senate Floor (The Public Theater); and Maiden Voyages (New Georges). During her tenure at New Dramatists, Molloy received two Frederick Loewe Awards for Musical Theatre, the Whitfield Cook Award, and the Joe Calloway Award. She has also received support from the NEA, NYFA, NYSCA, and PCA; Radcliffe, Pew, and Rockefeller Fellowships; as well as residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Millay, Annaghmakerrig, Hedgebrook, the Tennessee Williams Center, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. She is currently a 2025–26 Playwright-in-Residence at The Cell Theatre. Education: BFA, NYU Tisch; MFA, Brown University.