Audrey Cefaly Full-Length Plays

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Alabaster

Pulitzer-nominated, Kilroys-listed, all-female southern drama. Winner of the Calicchio Prize. This all-female, darkly comic Southern drama offers a profound exploration of art’s elusive nature. In the aftermath of a catastrophic tornado that reduces a town to ruin, only a reclusive artist, June, and her devoted companion, Weezy, remain to bear witness. When a renowned photographer arrives to capture the indelible marks of June’s ordeal, together, they navigate the delicate interplay of grief and healing, finding in each other not only a mirror for their own pain but also a muse for artistic rebirth.

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Maytag Virgin

A classic love story. Audrey Cefaly’s most popular play. Maytag Virgin is a southern love story about what happens when two wounded souls end up side by side. Lizzy Nash, a sharp-tongued schoolteacher barely holding it together, is thrown off balance by Jack Key—a quiet, steady man with a past of his own and a Maytag dryer parked on his porch. Neither is looking for company, but sparks fly as their guarded lives begin to tangle. As grief gives way to unexpected grace, Maytag Virgin explores how love can take root in the wake of loss—if we let it. Tender, funny, and unafraid of stillness, Maytag Virgin is a play about what lingers in the quiet—and what blooms when we finally speak." "For those who fear this is too heavy a play, be assured it contains plenty of laughs. For those who fear it’s a silly, romantic trifle, know that it plumbs the depths of human emotion.” ~ Florida Weekly

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The Gulf

Lammy Award for Best LGBTQ Drama The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent turn.

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The Last Wide Open

A new musical play by Audrey Cefaly, music by Matthew M. Nielson. A diner. 2AM. Anywhere. Lina and Roberto's lives intersect and parallel as three alternate realities unfold. The play renders the near hits and near misses that are the realities of this worn out waitress and immigrant dishwasher as well as the mystical ways the universe conspires to bring us all together.

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Trouble
(at the Vista View Mobile Home Estates)

A new all-female drama by Audrey Cefaly.

Official Selection:
Blue Ink Festival - American Blues Theater
Official Selection:
Florida Rep PlayLab
Featured Finalist:
2023 Blue Ink Award (American Blues Theater)
Official Selection:
2023 Appalachian Plays and Playwright Festival
Official Selection:
2022 Southern Writers Festival

TROUBLE is a portrait of fierce women in the small (fictional) mill town of Litman, Alabama. The play centers around struggling ex-mill worker Euba on the eve of her "unwanted" birthday party, which her mother Bernie (against Euba's express wishes) is intent on hosting, Also in the mix are mill workers Lila (8 months pregnant) and Fin (Euba's best friend), along with YoYo, a local security officer. As the birthday hour approaches, Euba is visited by a raven, sending her spiraling in search for answers to the untimely death of her father. This all-female drama attempts to traverse the landscape of family ties, mental illness, addiction, and the trials and tribulations of motherhood.

TROUBLE is the 4th installment in regionalist Audrey Cefaly's Alabama Cycle (The Gulf, Alabaster, Maytag Virgin), an exploration of the unsung voices, stories, and topographies of working class people in the Gulf Coast region.