Craft Discussion With Playwright Audrey Cefaly and Actor/Dramaturg Carolyn Messina
All topics playwriting with Dennis Hensley
Had a blast recording this podcast with Dennis Hensley and my writing partner, Carolyn Messina. TOPICS: writing trauma, comedy, and what it was like getting published by Samuel French. Have a listen!
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Audrey Cefaly's plays (Alabaster, Maytag Virgin, The Gulf, The Last Wide Open, Trouble) have garnered the Lammy Award, the Calicchio Prize, the NNPN Goldman Prize, the Edgerton, and a Pulitzer nomination. Her works have been produced at Signature Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Barter Theatre, Merrimack Rep, Florida Studio, Florida Rep, Gulfshore Playhouse, and countless others. Cefaly is a Dramatist Guild Foundation "Traveling Master," an Arena Stage playwright cohort, and a recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference. She is published by Concord Theatricals, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus and TRW.
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