Halley Feiffer is a New York-based writer and actress. Her full-length plays include I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic Theater Company, dir. Trip Cullman; OCC Nomination, John Gassner Playwriting Award), How To Make Friends And Then Kill Them (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, dir. Kip Fagan), and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MCC, Spring 2016, dir. Trip Cullman). Her plays have been developed by MTC, Second Stage, New York Theater Workshop, LAByrinth, The O’Neill, The Orchard Project, Naked Angels, Cape Cod Theatre Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Keen Company, Partial Comfort, and the Amoralists. Halley is a former Playwright in Residence at Stella Adler Studio, a winner of the Young Playwright’s Competition, and a winner of the 2015 Lotos Foundation Prize for Playwriting. She is currently under commission by MTC, Jen Hoguet Productions, MTC / Sloan, Playwrights Horizons, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service, Overlook Press, Vintage Books, Applause Books, and Smith & Kraus. Halley co-wrote and starred in the 2013 film He’s Way More Famous Than You, and co-created and stars in the web series What’s Your Emergency for Stage17.tv (both directed by Michael Urie). She won the Theater World Award for her performance in the Broadway revival of John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves (dir. David Cromer); other theater credits include Daniel Godfarb’s Legacy (Williamstown, dir. Oliver Butler), Jon Robin Baitz’ The Substance of Fire (Second Stage, dir. Trip Cullman), Ethan Coen’s Women or Nothing (Atlantic, dir. David Cromer), Kenneth Lonergan’s Medieval Play (Signature, dir. Kenneth Lonergan), Kim Rosenstock’s Tigers Be Still (Roundabout, dir. Sam Gold; Drama League Nomination). TV / Film credits include HBO’s Bored To Death and Mildred Pierce, and the films The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Gentlemen Broncos, and others. She is currently a writer on the upcoming Starz series The One Percent, created by the Academy Award-winning writers of the film Birdman. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University.
Halley Feiffer