Hal Corley is an American television writer and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

. He was Associate Head Writer for ''

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'' and '' As The World Turns'', for which he won five Daytime Emmy Awards and two

Writers Guild of America Award The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. Eligibility Th ...

s. His plays have been developed with the Seattle Repertory Theatre,

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, Walnut Street Theatre,

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, Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, New York's Westbeth, San Francisco's

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, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Washington DC's Source, Stageworks/Hudson, Los Angeles' New American Theatre, and Ontario's Flush Ink. Three full-length scripts, ''Easter Monday'', ''Mama and Jack Carew'', and ''ODD'', are published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals. His ''Fanny Otcott'', an adaptation of a sketch by Thornton Wilder, is published by YouthPLAYS; his ''Treed'' is in Playscripts' ''Great Short Plays Volume 10''; and his ''Dolor'' is included in Applause's ''Best American Short Plays'' for 2014-2015. His work is excerpted in Smith & Krause's ''Best Stage Scenes of 2008'' and ''Best Men's/Women's Stage Scenes and Monologues of 2011'', ''222 More Comedy Monologues'' (2017), and in Samuel French's ''Exceptional Monologues 2''. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America, East.

Awards and nominations

Television

Playwriting awards

References

External links

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Samuel French
store for three of Corley's plays {{DEFAULTSORT:Corley, Hal American soap opera writers American male television writers American dramatists and playwrights American theatre directors Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male dramatists and playwrights