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into the silver mouth [of time]

Irish Hunger Memorial, New York, NY 

into the silver mouth [of time] is a 30 minute performance piece, commissioned by the New York Foundation for the Arts' City's Artists Corps Grants (CACG) program. In the summer of 2021, NYFA partnered with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) in launching CACG, a $25 million recovery initiative designed to help artists who were both hard hit by the pandemic. As part of the program, CACG members presented workshops, exhibitions, performances, installations, murals, and much more-free and open to all New Yorkers–from July through October. 

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Programmed as a performance instillation at the Irish Hunger Memorial in Lower Manhattan, into the silver mouth [of time] was designed to fit snugly within the Memorial and take the audience along for a ride through time.

 

Audiences entered through the main passage (“Into The Silver Mouth – Monologues About Childbirth”), moved into a stone cottage (“Roofless Home – Domestic Scenes”), and walked the winding path (“Green Path To The Sky – Death and Rebirth”) to the top platform (“Into The World – Choral Chant About The Diaspora”).  Directed by Britt Berke, the piece featured performances from Zoe Watkins, Clemmie Evans, Caroline Winterson, Carina Goebelbecker, and Barrie Kreinik.

Round Room: An Open Studio

Theaterlab, New York, NY

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 grainAn ontological sequel to her earlier play Maiden Voyages,  the play features original music from Grammy Award-wining Irish folk singer Susan McKeown. 

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Round Room had a workshop presentation at Theaterlab in New York, NY, as part of the 2020 Origin's 1st Irish Theatre Festival. This workshop presentation was directed by Britt Berke, and featured performances from Labhaoise Magee, Brenda Meaney, Rachel Pickup, Maeve Price, Zoe Watkins, and Aoife Williamson. Round Room won the 1st Irish Theatre Festival Award for Best Playwright. 

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Round Room  has had developmental readings with New Dramatists, the Irish Arts Center,  and The Cell Theatre, among others.​

Crackskull Row

Irish Repertory Theatre, New York, NY

Tonight – for the first time in over thirty years – a 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.

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Crackskull Row  premiered at The Cell Theatre as part of the 2016 Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival, where it won Best Production. This production was directed by Kira Simring, and featured performances from Gina Costigan, Colin Lane, Terry Donnelly, and Charles McLaughlin. Crackskull Row later transferred Off-Broadway to the Irish Repertory Theatre beginning February 3rd, 2017, and was named a "Critics' Pick" by The New York Times.  The play was subsequently honored at the 2018 Irish Central Creativity and Arts Awards.

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Crackskull Row was first commissioned through a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University from 2001-2002.  It was later developed  with New Dramatists, the Inisbofin Arts Festival, Pennsylvania Stage Company, and The Theatre Outlet. The play went unproduced in the United States for more than a decade before being named to the 2015 edition of The Kilroys' List.

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Crackskull Row  is available to license through Samuel French.​​​

In Pigeon House

Irish Theatre of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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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In Pigeon House premiered at the Irish Theatre of Chicago in 2012.  The production was directed by Brian Shaw and featured performances from Ira Amyx, Katherine Schwartz, Barbara Figgins, and John Mossman.

 

In Pigeon House was originally commissioned in 2001 by the New York State Council on the Arts Playwriting Commission. It was later developed at the Australian National Playwrights Conference, New Dramatists, the American Theater Company, and the Irish Repertory Theatre.

 

In Pigeon House was honored with the 2002 Berilla Kerr Playwriting Award,

Madame Killer

Clubbed Thumb, New York, NY

A Gothic noir about Ann Lohman who, upon her death in 1878, 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! ​

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Madame Killer  had  workshop presentation with Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks Festival in April/May of 2005.  The workshop was directed by Wier Harman and featured performances fromMarsha Stephanie Blake, Aedin Moloney, Maria Porter, Jonathan Rose, Mark Shanahan, and Melinda Wade.

 

Madame Killer has had developmental readings with the American Place Theatre, The Playwrights' Center's PlayLabs Festival, New Dramatists, and the 92nd Street Y's Makor Theater Project, featuring 4x Oscar nominee Marsha Mason in the titular role.

Snapshot

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, Louisville, KY

Snapshot, a multi-author project from the Actors Theatre of Louisville premiered as part of the 26th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, which ran from March 3 – April 13, 2002. Within Snapshot, Molloy's one-act play Monument tells the story of two emergency telephone operators navigating a terrifying series of calls on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001.

 

The production was directed by Russell Vadenbroucke and featured an ensemble of Jake Goodman and Ellie Clark. The creative team included Paul Owen (scenic design), John White (costume design), Tony Penna (lighting design), Colbert Davis (sound design), and Doc Manning (props)

 

Snapshot is available to license through PlayScripts, Inc. 

Maiden Voyages

New Georges, New York, NY

Maiden Voyages is set in the corridors, back staircases, and wards of Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital, the oldest maternity hospital in Europe. Written with Bronagh Murphy, the play features musical arrangements by Grammy Award–winning Irish folk singer Susan McKeown.

 

Maiden Voyages had it's World Premiere in February of 1991 at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury, England. The play was subsequently produced Off-Broadway by New Georges at The Samuel Beckett Theatre in May of 1993. This production was directed by Jessica Bauman, and featured perofrmances by Susan Bernfield, Tobi Brydon, Robin Howard, Susan McKeown, Colleen McQuade, Bronagh Murphy, Marian Quinn, and Caroline Winterson. 

 

Maiden Voyages had it's Irish premiere in October of 2008 with a limited engagement at the Liberty Hall Theatre in Dublin, where it enjoyed a sold out run.

 

Maiden Voyages had developed by the Royal Court Theatre in London, Working Theater in New York, and the Women in Theatre Festival in Boston.

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