Molly Horan

Biography

I am a lyricist, librettist, playwright, and novelist. My play "The Patron Saint of Other Women" won Georgia College Arts and Letters’ 2021 Drama Prize. I was selected as a 2021 Bethany Arts Center artist in resident and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Governors Island resident, and was awarded a The Betsy Writer’s Residency for
2022.
I am a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop and Librettist Workshop. I co-wrote an adaptation of "Little Women" for Brooklyn’s Hedgepig Ensemble in 2019, and in 2022 I was a member of New Perspective Theatre Company Short Play Lab.

My debut novel, "Epically Earnest," a YA retelling of "The Importance of Being Earnest," was published in 2022. My first picture book, "I Have Seven Dogs," was published in 2023 by Penguin/Random House. I currently teach creative writing and literature at NYU and The School of Visual Arts.