Ashlin Halfnight

Ashlin Halfnight

Ashlin Halfnight is currently a writer on the Emmy Award-winning Netflix show, BLOODLINE. His feature films ASTRAEA and DIVING NORMAL can be found on VOD, and his mockumentary feature MAYBE THERE'S A TREE (starring Colin Mochrie & Creed Bratton) is currently in post-production. His teen thriller SURVIVAL BOX is in pre-production, scheduled to shoot in July, 2017 in Toronto. His plays have been...
Ashlin Halfnight is currently a writer on the Emmy Award-winning Netflix show, BLOODLINE. His feature films ASTRAEA and DIVING NORMAL can be found on VOD, and his mockumentary feature MAYBE THERE'S A TREE (starring Colin Mochrie & Creed Bratton) is currently in post-production. His teen thriller SURVIVAL BOX is in pre-production, scheduled to shoot in July, 2017 in Toronto. His plays have been performed across North America and Europe and include ARTIFACTS OF CONSEQUENCE, A HARD WALL AT HIGH SPEED, LAWS OF MOTION, and GOD'S WAITING ROOM. Ashlin is a Fulbright Scholar, former professional hockey player signed by the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, a Howard Stein Playwriting Fellow, and was the 2006 artist in residence at the National Theater of Hungary, in Budapest. Ashlin holds an honors BA in English from Harvard University and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and sons, and enjoys whiskey, new socks, and the film Footloose.

Plays

  • BALATON by Ashlin Halfnight
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: hungary, communism + 8 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, fantasy, period, political, tragedy
    Keyword: hungary, communism, limbo, purgatory, Hungarian, immigration, Immigrants, Soviet Union, post-communist, 1989
    Set in a tenuous afterlife, Balaton is a multi-generational drama that charts a fractured Hungarian family’s fight for unity and security in a post communist, pro-American world.

  • DIVING NORMAL by Ashlin Halfnight
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Brooklyn, love triangle + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: Brooklyn, love triangle, autism, Drugs, BDSM, Apartment, graphic novel
    Fulton, an ambitious Brooklynite graphic novelist, and Gordon, his socially awkward neighbor, are best friends who both vie for the attention of Dana, a beautiful but damaged girl. Fulton and Dana begin dating, but the increasingly complicated situation is compounded by their pasts of abandonment, accident, and sexual deviation. After discovering that Fulton has gone to visit his ex-girlfriend, things take a...
    Fulton, an ambitious Brooklynite graphic novelist, and Gordon, his socially awkward neighbor, are best friends who both vie for the attention of Dana, a beautiful but damaged girl. Fulton and Dana begin dating, but the increasingly complicated situation is compounded by their pasts of abandonment, accident, and sexual deviation. After discovering that Fulton has gone to visit his ex-girlfriend, things take a dark turn as Dana relapses and debases with drugs and alcohol.
  • ARTIFACTS OF CONSEQUENCE by Ashlin Halfnight
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 8 more
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    Keyword: labyrinth, Ariadne + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, immersive, political, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: labyrinth, Ariadne, minotaur, post-apocalyptic, America, Bunker, audience engagement, wasteland
    In a crumbling, burnt-out America, an underwater bunker stores the relics of our everyday lives: Barbie, Moby Dick, Twinkies and bond traders are all preserved in a labyrinthine warehouse, shelved in boxes, awaiting the stabilization of the continent above. One woman is charged with safeguarding our cultural artifacts for the rebuilding of a great society… but the walls are leaking, resources are running out,...
    In a crumbling, burnt-out America, an underwater bunker stores the relics of our everyday lives: Barbie, Moby Dick, Twinkies and bond traders are all preserved in a labyrinthine warehouse, shelved in boxes, awaiting the stabilization of the continent above. One woman is charged with safeguarding our cultural artifacts for the rebuilding of a great society… but the walls are leaking, resources are running out, and her wide-eyed assistant is hell-bent on losing her virginity to the first man she can find.

    As the facility nears collapse, it’s clear that vast quantities of our legacy will be lost… Artifacts of Consequence asks if that’s such a terrible thing.
  • A HARD WALL AT HIGH SPEED by Ashlin Halfnight
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    Genre: biography, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: 9/11, family + 8 more
    Genre: biography, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, political, tragedy
    Keyword: 9/11, family, Florida Keys, pilot, twin towers, military, navy, childbirth, Alcohol, flight school
    As crisis hits the Florida gulf and the nation, a pilot finds himself firmly in the crosshairs of a community out for blood.  A play about one man's mistake, and how it changed the country, A Hard Wall at High Speed asks how we heal, how we forgive, and how far we've come.
  • GOD'S WAITING ROOM by Ashlin Halfnight
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 12 more
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    Keyword: Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, immersive, melodrama, movement/physical, political, satire, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, Russia, magical realism, beer, infidelity, infertility
    Inspired by Buglakov's Master and Margarita, God’s Waiting Room snaps four perplexed people into purgatory for the ride of their afterlife.
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    “God’s Waiting Room is briskly well written and highly entertaining… a cleverly deconstructed plot. Go for the concise originality.”
    The New York Times 08/19/05