Forest Malley

Forest Malley is a playwright and actor based in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores memory, migration, queerness, divas, and his Arab American heritage. He was one of seven winners of the 2022 Theater Masters Take Ten Festival (The Death Card), a finalist for the 2024 Page 73 Writing Fellowship, a finalist for the 2023 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference (Gidou) and the winner of the 2024 Goldberg Play Prize (French Boy Cigarettes). He is currently a member of the Page 73 Writer's Group, the SWANA Writer's Co-Op, and a Planet Fitness in Bushwick. M.F.A: NYU Tisch School of the Arts ‘23; B.A: Harvard University ‘20.

Forest Malley is a playwright and actor based in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores memory, migration, queerness, divas, and his Arab American heritage. He was one of seven winners of the 2022 Theater Masters Take Ten Festival (The Death Card), a finalist for the 2024 Page 73 Writing Fellowship, a finalist for the 2023 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference (Gidou) and the winner of the 2024 Goldberg Play Prize (French Boy Cigarettes). He is currently a member of the Page 73 Writer's Group, the SWANA Writer's Co-Op, and a Planet Fitness in Bushwick. M.F.A: NYU Tisch School of the Arts ‘23; B.A: Harvard University ‘20.

Scripts

French Boy Cigarettes

by Forest Malley

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Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
horror,
melodrama,
mystery/thriller

French Boy Cigarettes is part dark comedy, part thriller, part family drama about a 17-year-old Egyptian-American boy who lives with his grandmother Najla in a cramped apartment on the northern coast of Massachusetts. A kidnapping-gone-awry leaves them with a badly bruised boy in the basement, suspicious neighbors, the threat of deportation, and God’s judgment looming over their heads.

French Boy Cigarettes is part dark comedy, part thriller, part family drama about a 17-year-old Egyptian-American boy who lives with his grandmother Najla in a cramped apartment on the northern coast of Massachusetts. A kidnapping-gone-awry leaves them with a badly bruised boy in the basement, suspicious neighbors, the threat of deportation, and God’s judgment looming over their heads.

Gidou

by Forest Malley

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Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

When Yassmine and her daughter Sami arrive at her childhood home, with its towering spiral staircase and the looming portrait of her departed father, the memories are as alive as the woman– Yassmine’s estranged mother– who still lives there. Gidou, an Arabic nickname for “grandfather,” is an exploration of the lasting legacy that men leave long after they’re gone: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the much uglier...

When Yassmine and her daughter Sami arrive at her childhood home, with its towering spiral staircase and the looming portrait of her departed father, the memories are as alive as the woman– Yassmine’s estranged mother– who still lives there. Gidou, an Arabic nickname for “grandfather,” is an exploration of the lasting legacy that men leave long after they’re gone: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the much uglier.

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For You, The Same

by Forest Malley

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Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
melodrama,
romantic comedy

A full-length play about two twentysomethings, Yusef and Evelyn, who come together the night before their interview with USCIS to get on the same page about their fraudulent marriage, and try to cover up all the cracks that are already showing before the night begins.

A full-length play about two twentysomethings, Yusef and Evelyn, who come together the night before their interview with USCIS to get on the same page about their fraudulent marriage, and try to cover up all the cracks that are already showing before the night begins.