Halley Feiffer

Halley Feiffer
Halley Feiffer playing Emily in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Third by Wendy Wasserstein, at the BU Theatre during the 2007-2008 season.
Born	(1984-11-20) November 20, 1984 (age 32)
Education	Wesleyan University (2007)
Occupation	Actress, playwright
Relatives	Jules Feiffer (father)

Halley Feiffer (born November 20, 1984) is an American actress and playwright.

Feiffer was raised in a Jewish family, the daughter of famed satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, and writer, actor, and comedian Jenny Allen. Feiffer graduated from Wesleyan University in 2007.

Feiffer's work as a playwright has been produced off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company, the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the Cherry Lane Theatre. Her play, I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard broke box office records for the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 space, and was a Time Out New York Critics Pick.

Her play, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, premiered at MCC Theater in Spring 2016. The play starred Beth Behrs, Erik Lochtefeld, Jacqueline Sydney, and Lisa Emery. The play was a NYT Critic's Pick.

Feiffer won the National Young Playwrights' Contest in 2002 and the Lotos Foundation Award for Playwriting in 2015. She was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award (the John Gassner Playwriting Award) for her play, I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard, in 2015.

Her 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, Partial Comfort Productions and the Amoralists. She holds commissions from Manhattan Theater Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Playwrights Horizons. Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service, Overlook Press, Vintage Books, Applause Books, Samuel French and Smith & Kraus.