MARGOT CONNOLLY

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SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
Finalist for Composer-Librettist Development Program ALT 2021
Finalist for Patty Abramson Prize Theater J 2020
EST/Sloan Commission Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation 2019
Honorable Mention Kilroy’s List 2019
IRAM Award for Outstanding Work on New Plays University of Iowa 2018
Finalist for the Jerome Fellowship Playwrights Center 2018
International Summer Travel Grant University of Iowa/Argentina 2016
Finalist for Princess Grace Award New Dramatists 2016, 2019
Norman Felton Scholarship University of Iowa 2015 – 2018
Henry Jaglom Scholarship (for female writers of promise) University of Iowa 2015 – 2018
Jean Schaal Scholarship University of Iowa 2015 – 2018
Core Apprentice Playwrights Center 2010 – 2011
Early Stages Resident Berkshire Fringe Festival 2010
SELECTED FULL LENGTH PLAYS
Hello, World
Reading EST First Light Festival Mar 2020
Commission EST/Sloan Foundation 2019
Dream Phone
Reading PlayLab, The Juilliard School Feb 2020
Tough
Production New Work Series, American Academy of Dramatic Art Oct 2019
Finalist Jerome Fellowship, Playwrights Center May 2018
Production University of Iowa New Play Festival May 2017
Workshop Production Williamstown Theatre Festival July 2016
What Happens Next
Workshop Production Playwrights Festival, The Juilliard School Sept 2019
Finalist The Emerald Prize, Seattle Public Theatre Feb 2019
Quiz Out
Reading Ignite! Festival, Repertory St. Louis Mar 2019
Reading ESPA Drills, Primary Stages Apr 2019
Production University of Iowa Gallery Series Oct 2016
Honorable Mention Kilroy's List 2019
Finalist Princess Grace Award 2016
The Twitch
Semifinalist Jerome Fellowship, Playwrights Center 2020
Finalist Princess Grace Award 2019
Reading PlayLab, The Juilliard School Nov 2018
Lingering
Production University of Iowa New Play Festival May 2018
IRAM Award University of Iowa 2018
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Production University of Iowa Gallery Series Feb 2018
Belfast Kind
Runner Up Theater J’s Patty Abramson Prize Sept 2020
Winner ‘Best Of’ Year, JPP’s Jewish Playwriting Contest 2018
Production Jewish Community High School of the Bay Feb 2016
Winner Jewish Plays Project’s Jewish Playwriting Contest 2015
Workshop OPEN: Festival of New Jewish Plays June 2015
1 John 4:20
Workshop Playwrights Center, Minneapolis, MN June 2011
Reading Berkshire Fringe Festival, Great Barrington, MA Aug 2010
SELECTED SHORT PLAYS, OPERA, AND OTHER WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE
Shine (20 min opera)
Production The Juilliard School, Opera Lab May 2022 (upcoming)
The Original and Only (duet for opera)
Production Scenes from New York Fall 2022 (upcoming)
Shabbat Shalom, Singles (10 min)
Finalist Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival Aug 2021
Juvenilia (20 min opera)
Production The Juilliard School, Opera Lab Jun 2021
The Vale of Cashmere (10 min for over the phone, commissioned by Telephone Plays)
Production The Telephone Plays, 24/6 Feb 2021
The Bennington Triangle (aria for opera)
Production O Solo Mio, Juilliard Mar 2021
Decamereunion (10 min, collaborative play for Zoom)
Production The Juilliard School May 2020
My Daughters Are My Writings (20min, commissioned by Iowa Arts Share)
Production University of Iowa Arts Share Feb 2019
Cross Examined (10 min, commissioned by Iowa Arts Share)
Production University of Iowa Arts Share June 2017
The Best Worst Birthday in the History of the World (10 min)
Production 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Aug 2015
Keys (one act)
Production The Kraine Theater Mar 2015
Reading Playwrights Festival, Bennington College, VT May 2010
Code Strawberry (10 min)
Production Village Playwrights Feb 2015
Intern’s First Office Party (10 min)
Production Ugly Rhino’s Tiny Rhino: Office Holiday Party Dec 2014
Wombat Day (10 min)
Production MITF Short Play Lab, Roy Arias, NY, NY April 2012
SuperLoser (collaboratively written six-episode performance series)
Production Sitcom Performance Series, Bennington College April - May 2011
Twin B (solo performance)
Production Bennington College May 2010
RELATED THEATER AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Admissions Reader
Workshop Assistant
Essay Coaching
Playwriting I
Group Leader/Teacher
Comedy and Society
History of Theater & Drama II
Theater and Society I
Theater and Society II
Mentor/Script Reader
Creative Writing Instructor
The Juilliard School 2018 - Present
Iowa Playwrights Workshop 2016 – 2018
Writing Coach, Prompt 2021 - Present
Instructor, University of Iowa 2017 – 2018
Strong Girls Read Strong Books 2018
TA, University of Iowa Spring 2017
TA, University of Iowa Fall 2016
TA, University of Iowa Spring 2016
TA, University of Iowa Fall 2015
UIowa Undergrad Playwrights Festival 2015, 2017
Long Lake Camp for the Arts 2012 -13

EDUCATION
The Juilliard School
Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program 2018 – 2020
University of Iowa
MFA in Playwriting 2015 – 2018
Bennington College
BA in Liberal Arts, Drama Concentration 2008 – 2012