Molly Hardy

Molly Hardy is a California-based playwright, writer, director, producer, and lyricist. Ms. Hardy’s critically acclaimed plays have been produced in colleges, theaters, prisons, the US Military, and high schools throughout the country. Her plays include Kitty Claws and the Magic of Dreaming, a musical with lyrics by Ms. Hardy and music composed by Grammy award-winning composer Larry Blank, produced and toured throughout Southern California. Her play Heaven’s North of Here, produced throughout the United States, deals with teen suicide, and her program Students Against Suicide, developed with several high schools, in articles in Youth Magazine. She also wrote Encore, a play about hope in the face of despair, and several others. Ms. Hardy created a playwriting program for foster youth with the Los Angeles Unified School District and Probation Department called Life Matters. She recently completed a screenplay about singer/songwriter Phoebe Show titled Something Real. Ms. Hardy has authored several essays and studied with award-winning memoirist John Evans at Stanford University and is currently working on her book, Travels of a Tragedy Queen.

Loss of Friend

Encore

ACT I One last moment in the lights… Like his life, Jim’s death held enough suspense, drama, and intrigue for a three-act play, and as

May 11, 2021