Audrey Cefaly is a playwright / screenwriter, actor and director in the Washington Metro Area. Her original one-acts have won the Virginia, Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Eastern States One-Act Festivals as well as the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s In 10 Festival. She placed 2^nd in the Nantucket Short Play Festival, and was a two-time finalist in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival.

Audrey is best-known for her award-winning one-act Fin and Euba, which has received over 30 productions throughout the U.S. and Canada and will be published by Applause Books in October of 2008, in the anthology Best American Short Plays 2004-2005. Fin and Euba also received a reading at the acclaimed Ensemble Studio Theatre and won the 2006 Strawberry One-Act Fesitval.

The short screenplay adaptation of Fin and Euba was a finalist or winner of seven screenplay competitions including Total Film (winner); Indie Gathering (2nd place) and Gimme Credit (3rd place). Cefaly is currently working on the feature-length version.

Cefaly is a Writer In Residence at Quotidian Theatre Company where she recently completed work on a commissioned piece called Mill Town Girls, a full-length prequel to Fin and Euba. Mill Town Girls was read at the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage Festival and had its world premiere with Quotidian in the Spring of 2007.

Cefaly studied theater at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. Her writings are typically set in Alabama and the gulf-coast region where she spent her summers as a child. Her writings, which are heavily influenced by McClure, Williams and Henley, often explore themes such as disenchantment, fulfillment, longing and heartache. Her heavily-themed plays often include rich Southern characters and are made more accessible through simplistic dialogue and humor.