BIOGRAPHY


Molly is a playwright, songwriter and experience designer whose work  gravitates toward unusual collaborations, offbeat musicality and site-specific attempts at enchantment. Her projects have been developed/ produced in NYC (the Public, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, Women’s Project, NYTW, HERE, NYU/ Tisch, New Georges, Soho Rep) and nationally (American Repertory Theater, Montana Rep, Kitchen Dog Theater, Hangar Theater, Salvage Vanguard, Trinity Rep, Bricolage Production Company). Her work has been published by American Theater Magazine, Kenyon Review, Heinemann Press, Clarkson Potter Press, Indie Theater Now, LooseChange.com, DEVICE.com and Play: A Journal, and she’s enjoyed residencies at Tofte Lake, Pilot Balloon Church House, Voice and Vision, Hangar Theater, Missoula Colony, Yale/ P73 Residency, America-In-Play, Bartlett Island Retreat, and Women’s Project Lab.


Molly has been commissioned by the NYU/Tisch Graduate Acting Program, Visible Theater, Montclair State University, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Motherlodge Live Arts Exchange, and has been honored by the International Women’s Playwriting Festival, Brown’s Weston Prize For Graduate Playwriting, Theater Masters, and both the Montclair and Pace University New Works Initiatives. Throughout her career she has been a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the PONY award,  and twice for the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, and has been nominated for honors such as the Kesselring Fellowship, the New York Innovative Theater Awards, and twice for the Cherry Lane Mentor Program.


Recent projects include Futurity at American Repertory Theater (2012) and Soho Rep/ Ars Nova (2014), with the band The Lisps; The Saints Tour, which has appeared in neighborhoods from Louisville to Braddock PA to Wall Street (2009-2015); and A Doll House (in a Doll House), Ibsen’s classic play presented in its entirety on Facebook using 3-inch dolls as actors (2015). Some of her projects are produced by her company Real/Time Interventions, for which she is Co-Artistic Director with director/producer Rusty Thelin.


Molly’s MFA came from Brown University and she has taught at Brown, Kenyon College, Marymount Manhattan College, Montclair State, and Pace University, where she created the curriculum for a multi-genre BA Program entitled “21st Century Storytelling: Writing for Theater, Film and New Media”. She now teaches in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and in the new Point Park University Writing for Stage and Screen MFA, for which she helps to develop the curriculum.


Molly is a longtime musician/ songwriter. When she was 18 one of her songs made the Top 100 Charts in Alaska. She still doesn’t know what number it was.