Honor Molloy

Honor Molloy’s plays and musicals have been produced at over 100 venues across the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, and India. Select credits include CRACKSKULL ROW (Irish Repertory Theatre, 2017), AND IN MY HEART (International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, 2016) IN PIGEON HOUSE (Irish Theatre of Chicago, 2012), MADAME KILLER (Clubbed Thumb, 2005), SNAPSHOT (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, 2002), TONGUES OF STONE (Belvoir Street Theater, 1995), MOLLOY (Todo Con Nada, 1994) LESBIAN CHEEK (WOW Café, 1994), MAIDEN VOYAGES (New Georges, 1993), REHEARSING THE GRANDA (The Public Theater, 1992), and STICKY N JUICY ON DA SENATE FLOOR (The Public Theater, 1992). A frequent collaborator of Susan Hefner & Dancers, Molloy authored the libretto for EVE OF CONSUMPTION ...

Honor Molloy’s plays and musicals have been produced at over 100 venues across the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, and India. Select credits include CRACKSKULL ROW (Irish Repertory Theatre, 2017), AND IN MY HEART (International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, 2016) IN PIGEON HOUSE (Irish Theatre of Chicago, 2012), MADAME KILLER (Clubbed Thumb, 2005), SNAPSHOT (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, 2002), TONGUES OF STONE (Belvoir Street Theater, 1995), MOLLOY (Todo Con Nada, 1994) LESBIAN CHEEK (WOW Café, 1994), MAIDEN VOYAGES (New Georges, 1993), REHEARSING THE GRANDA (The Public Theater, 1992), and STICKY N JUICY ON DA SENATE FLOOR (The Public Theater, 1992). A frequent collaborator of Susan Hefner & Dancers, Molloy authored the libretto for EVE OF CONSUMPTION (1994), UNRULY GRACES (1993), MARROW CLAMOR (1992), and ATTEMPTED FLIGHT (1990).

Her plays have been developed by Lincoln Center Theater, the Royal Court Theatre, the Australian National Playwrights’ Conference, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Inishbofin Arts Festival, the Women Playwrights Festival, the Playwrights Center, the 92nd Street Y’s Makor Theater Project, the American Place Theatre, Circle Repertory Company, the Irish Arts Center, The Cell Theatre, Origin Theatre Company, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, Flesh & Blood Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, City Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Merit Theater & Film Group, Curious Theatre Company, The Theatre Outlet, Pennsylvania Stage Company, and the National New Play Network.

Molloy is the recipient of numerous fellowships, awards, and honors, including Radcliffe, Pew, Rockefeller, NEA, NYFA, NYSCA, and PCA Fellowships; a Creative Capitol Award; two Frederick Loewe Awards for Musical Theatre; two 1st Irish Theatre Festival Awards; the Joe Calloway Award; and the Berilla Kerr Award for Playwriting. In 2017, she received a Proclamation from the New York City Council for her “Contributions to Irish Culture.” She is an alumna of New Dramatists and has completed residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Millay Arts, Annaghmakerrig, Hedgebrook, the Tennessee Williams Center, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation.
 
A co-founder of Working Theater in 1985, Molloy served as the company's Director of Play Development, Literary Manager, and Artistic Associate. She has also worked as a Program Officer in Arts & Humanities for the Rockefeller Foundation, Auditor of Theatre & Dance for the New York State Council on the Arts, and Evaluator of Awards & Grants for the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has taught creative writing at Barnard College, the City University of New York, and Brown University, in addition to leading dozens of workshops at academic and arts institutions.

Molloy is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the League of Professional Theatre Women, Parity Productions, and Irish American Writers & Artists. Her debut novel SMARTY GIRL: DUBLIN SAVAGE was jointly published by Simon & Schuster and Gemma. She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.

Scripts

Crackskull Row

by Honor Molloy

Synopsis

Rasher Moorigan has a secret that only his mother knows. Tonight – for the first time in over thirty years – mother and son spend May Eve together in a wreck of a house down the backlanes of Dublin. Melding reality and myth, Crackskull Row is the story of an Irish family’s desperate actions and forbidden loves, “exploring rage, dissolution, sexual perversity and family history with a bleak and penetrating...

Rasher Moorigan has a secret that only his mother knows. Tonight – for the first time in over thirty years – mother and son spend May Eve together in a wreck of a house down the backlanes of Dublin. Melding reality and myth, Crackskull Row is the story of an Irish family’s desperate actions and forbidden loves, “exploring rage, dissolution, sexual perversity and family history with a bleak and penetrating acuity.”

Madame Killer

by Honor Molloy

Synopsis

A Gothic noir about Ann Lohman, who was a paradigm of capitalism, worth millions … but she had secrets. This fair doctor owned a black book filled with incriminating evidence about all the women she serviced over the years, striking fear in both rich and poor if this information ever got out!

A Gothic noir about Ann Lohman, who was a paradigm of capitalism, worth millions … but she had secrets. This fair doctor owned a black book filled with incriminating evidence about all the women she serviced over the years, striking fear in both rich and poor if this information ever got out!

In Pigeon House

by Honor Molloy

Synopsis

Juxtaposed against the contemporary drug-fueled club scene in Dublin, In Pigeon House weaves together vaudeville, music hall, and cinema in this love letter to traveling shows. Moving between time and genres, the itinerant players Basher, Masher, Rasher and Dolly rip up the stage with a furious tornado of language and Moving Pictures. A startlingly theatrical and darkly comic oeuvre, In Pigeon House at once...

Juxtaposed against the contemporary drug-fueled club scene in Dublin, In Pigeon House weaves together vaudeville, music hall, and cinema in this love letter to traveling shows. Moving between time and genres, the itinerant players Basher, Masher, Rasher and Dolly rip up the stage with a furious tornado of language and Moving Pictures. A startlingly theatrical and darkly comic oeuvre, In Pigeon House at once explodes and upholds the romantic myth of the traveling show.

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Round Room

by Honor Molloy

Synopsis

Round Room takes place in the corridors, back staircases and on the wards of Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital, the oldest maternity hospital in the world. Spanning more than two centuries, the play tells the stories of handywomen and harlots, the lamp tender, the airline hostess and the girl in the grain.

Round Room takes place in the corridors, back staircases and on the wards of Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital, the oldest maternity hospital in the world. Spanning more than two centuries, the play tells the stories of handywomen and harlots, the lamp tender, the airline hostess and the girl in the grain.

Dublin Noir

by Honor Molloy

Synopsis

On a day trip to Drogheda, Dubliner Tadgh Steele is captured by a dairy farmer named Murphy and locked in a cowshed. Is Tadgh a poet as he claims or - as Murphy suspects - a Nazi spy? Makes no difference to Murphy’s slop girl Dolly, who falls in love with the handsome stranger and casts him as the hero of a “fil-um in her head.” There’s only one way off the farm.

On a day trip to Drogheda, Dubliner Tadgh Steele is captured by a dairy farmer named Murphy and locked in a cowshed. Is Tadgh a poet as he claims or - as Murphy suspects - a Nazi spy? Makes no difference to Murphy’s slop girl Dolly, who falls in love with the handsome stranger and casts him as the hero of a “fil-um in her head.” There’s only one way off the farm.

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by Honor Molloy

Synopsis

Kick Malone--Publisher / Editor / High Flying Media-Babe--has six bestsellers on the list when she loses her mind.

Kick Malone--Publisher / Editor / High Flying Media-Babe--has six bestsellers on the list when she loses her mind.