Paul Donnelly

My life as a “trailing spouse” has included stops in Washington DC, Atlanta, Honolulu, and now Tallahassee. My work has won the Source Theatre Company National 10-Minute Play Contest, the Larry Neal Writers Award for Drama, the Virginia Playwriting Prize, and twice been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. I had pieces in the 2015-2017 Atlanta One-Minute Play Festivals and my romantic comedy, Falling Off the Edge, was produced in Atlanta in January 2018. My full-length play, Memorial Day, was read in Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Dark Nights series in Honolulu in March 2018, was named a Finalist (one of eight out of 1,243 entries) in the first Moss and Kitty Carlisle Hart New Play Initiative in June 2018, and was included in the 2021 Unexpected Play Festival, a collaboration between Atlanta's Theatrical Outfit and Working Title Playwrights. Memorial Day was produced by the University of Hawaii at Manoa in October 2022. My 10-minute play, The New Client, was published in The Best Ten Minute Plays of 2019! (Smith & Kraus). My ten minute play, Family Visitation, was produced in Theatre Odyssey's Ten-Minute Play Festival in May 2019 in Sarasota, FL, by Bergen County Academies in June 2022, and White Mouse Productions in Tallahassee in October 2022. 'tis True, Ma was included in the Buffalo United Artists Takes Ten: Stonewall Edition in June 2019. The Pity Mourner was presented twice in June 2022, at the Seaside Players Community Theatre in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL and at the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop in Monticello, NY and Theatre Odyssey's Ten Minute Play Festival in May 2023 in Sarasota, FL. My full-length play, After Another, received a stage reading by Script2Stage2Screen in Rancho Mirage, CA in April 2023. I am a member of the Dramatists Guild, New Play Exchange, Playwrights’ Center, Tallahassee Writers Association, and Working Title Playwrights.