Candace Perry grew up in the military, living in 17 houses before graduating from high school. Places she's called home include the following:
• Marietta, Ohio
• Sumpter, South Carolina
• Orlando, Florida
• Valdosta, Georgia
• Waco, Texas
• Alexandria, Virginia
• Managua, Nicaragua
• Abilene, Texas
• Fort Walton Beach, Florida
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Washington, D.C.
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Her short and long works have been performed and workshopped in festivals and theaters in the US and Ireland. Her short plays have been produced in competitive festivals including Boston Theatre Marathons, the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, New Bedford Culture*Park Theatre Marathons, the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary...
Candace Perry grew up in the military, living in 17 houses before graduating from high school. Places she's called home include the following:
• Marietta, Ohio
• Sumpter, South Carolina
• Orlando, Florida
• Valdosta, Georgia
• Waco, Texas
• Alexandria, Virginia
• Managua, Nicaragua
• Abilene, Texas
• Fort Walton Beach, Florida
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Washington, D.C.
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Her short and long works have been performed and workshopped in festivals and theaters in the US and Ireland. Her short plays have been produced in competitive festivals including Boston Theatre Marathons, the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, New Bedford Culture*Park Theatre Marathons, the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, Provincetown Theater’s Playwrights’ Festivals, Heartland Theatre Company’s Ten Minute Play Festivals (Normal, IL), International Women’s Theater Festivals (Provincetown, MA) and many other venues.
Her full length plays have been workshopped or produced by the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT), the Provincetown Theatre Company, and the Bendheim Performing Arts Center (Scarsdale, NY). During the Covid pandemic, a dozen of her short plays were produced online by various theater companies, including Sailor Beware with WHAT, the Sandwich (MA) Arts Alliance, and the Provincetown Theater’s 24 Hour Plays.
She is the recipient of the Jerome Kaplan New Play Prize for full length plays and the Blue Institute’s “Words on Water” for short plays. She was selected as a commissioned playwright for the Four Squared Collaborative Theater Project of Cape Cod and served as the Playwright-in-Residence for the Eventide Theatre Company in Dennis, MA. She has taught courses in writing short plays, writing for radio and writing for social change on Cape Cod and in New Orleans and is a multiple recipient of Cultural Council grants for teaching and producing. She recently taught playwriting at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, MA.
Though she’s written and published in other forms, she finds that the making of a play presents the greatest opportunity and challenge for creating work that might change the world, or nudge it in the right direction. Her writing life has been enriched and interrupted by relationships, activism, teaching, travel, open water swimming, and her clinical social work career. She lives in Wellfleet, MA with her husband, Charles Thibodeau, a writer, musician and activist.