Honor Molloy, also known as Honour Kane, is an Irish-American playwright. Her plays have been produced by The Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, WOW Café, NADA, The Cell Theatre, Irish Repertory Theatre, Irish Theatre of Chicago, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Belvoir Street Theatre, the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and elsewhere. Molloy’s debut novel, Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2012.
Throughout her career, Molloy has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Berilla Kerr Foundation, the Skirball Foundation, the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
In 2017, she received a Proclamation from the New York City Council for “Contributions to Irish Culture.” The critic Stanley Crouch once described Molloy as “beyond recommendation, her writing and performances should be mandatory events for all civilized people.