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 10 Minute Play Festival. She placed 2nd in the Nantucket Short Play Festival, and was a two-time finalist in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. Fin and Euba also received a reading at the acclaimed Ensemble Studio Theatre and won the 2006 Strawberry One-Act Fesitval. It was recently pubished in Best American Short Plays 2004-2005.

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). The feature-length narrative by the same title won a Maryland Arts Council Individual Artist Award in 2009. Cefaly is currently working on a full-length stage adaptation.

Cefaly is a Writer In Residence at Quotidian Theatre Company where she recently completed work on the commissioned work Mill Town Girls, a full-length prequel to Fin and Euba. Mill Town Girls was read at the Kennedy Center 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, often rich with Southern characters, explore the human condition with a textural quality that is made more accessible through simplistic dialogue, silence and humor.