HONOR MOLLOY
Playwright | Novelist | Salonnière
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Honor Molloy (also known as Honour Kane) is a Dublin-born, New York–based playwright. Her plays and musicals have been performed at more than 100 venues across the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, and India. Select credits include Crackskull Row (Irish Repertory Theatre); In Pigeon House (Irish Theatre of Chicago); Madame Killer (Clubbed Thumb); Snapshot (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival); Tongues of Stone (Belvoir Street Theatre); Molloy (Todo Con Nada); Lesbian Cheek and Les Beaux Luv (WOW Café); Rehearsing the Granda and Sticky & Juicy on da Senate Floor (The Public Theater); and Maiden Voyages (New Georges).
An alumna of New Dramatists, Molloy has held residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Millay Arts, Annaghmakerrig, Hedgebrook, the Tennessee Williams Center, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. She has served as Playwright-in-Residence at Lincoln Center Theater (New York), the Royal Court Theatre (London), and the Australian National Playwrights Conference (Sydney), among others.
Her plays have been developed by 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.
Among many honors, Molloy has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, an National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, three NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships, a NYSCA Playwriting Commission, a NYFA City Artist Corps Grant, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, two Frederick Loewe Awards for Musical Theatre, two 1st Irish Theatre Festival Awards, a Creative Capital Award, the Whitfield Cook Award, and the Berilla Kerr Playwriting Award. In 2017, she received a Proclamation from the New York City Council in recognition of her “Contributions to Irish Culture.”
A co-founder of Working Theater in 1985, Molloy served as the company's Literary Manager and Director of Play Development. She has also worked as a Program Officer in Arts & Humanities for the Rockefeller Foundation, and Auditor of Theatre & Dance for the New York State Council on the Arts, and and Evaluator of Awards & Grants for the New York Foundation for the Arts. In addition to dozens of lectures and workshops at various academic and artistic institutions, Molloy has taught semester-long courses in creative writing at Brown University, Barnard College of Columbia University, and the City University of New York.
The critic Stanley Crouch once described Molloy as “beyond recommendation—her writing and performances should be mandatory events for all civilized people.” She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.
