Halley Feiffer's play I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard, directed by Trip Cullman and starring Betty Gilpin and Reed Birney, broke box office records for the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 space, was a Time Out New York Critics Pick, and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award in 2015.
10 Facts About Halley Feiffer
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Halley Feiffer won the National Young Playwrights' Contest in 2002 and the Lotos Foundation Award for Playwriting in 2015.
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Halley Feiffer's plays have been produced, commissioned and developed by Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project and elsewhere, and have been commissioned by Manhattan Theater Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Atlantic Theater Company and Playwrights Horizons.
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Halley Feiffer has performed off-Broadway in subUrbia, Election Day, None of the Above, Still Life, Some Americans Abroad, Tigers Be Still, Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play and Ethan Coen's Women or Nothing.
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In Fall 2016, Halley Feiffer starred in the Broadway revival of The Front Page starring Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Holland Taylor, Jefferson Mays, Sherie Rene Scott, and Robert Morse.
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Halley Feiffer is writing the book for the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of "Thelma and Louise" with music and lyrics by Neko Case, directed by Trip Cullman.
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Halley Feiffer had a recurring role in the third and final season of Jonathan Ames' cult HBO series Bored to Death as Ted Danson's character's recovering alcoholic daughter Emily.
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Additionally, Halley Feiffer starred in the 2013 film He's Way More Famous Than You, directed by Michael Urie, which she co-wrote with Ryan Spahn and executive produced.
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In 2014, Halley Feiffer became a writer for the Starz series The One Percent, co-created by Academy Award-winner Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, which was scheduled to begin filming in 2016 but was put into turnaround the following year.
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Halley Feiffer is developing an adaptation of the upcoming book Bad Summer People for Prime Video and an adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz's book The Latecomer for Fifth Season.