Fengar Gael (a.k.a. Mary Fengar Gail) is a playwright.
Ms. Gail’s works include “Drink Me,” “Opaline,” “Devil Dog Six,” “The Cantor’s Tale,” “Lord Velvet,” “Touch of Rapture,” “The Orchid Lover” and “Carnivals of Desire,” which was produced by New Voices. She has had workshops and productions at various theater including the Sundance Institute, New York Stage and Film Company, the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Collaborative Arts Project 21 and MultiStages of New York, the InterAct Theatre of Philadelphia, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, the Seanachai Theatre of Chicago, the Kitchen Dog Theatre of Dallas and the Salt Lake Acting Company.
She is a recipient of the Arnold Weissberger Award administered by New Dramatists, the Stanley Drama Award sponsored by Wagner College, the TheatreFest Playwriting Competition, the National Children’s Theatre Festival Award, the Playwrights First Award as well as commissions from South Coast Repertory of Costa Mesa, the National New Play Network, the Salt Lake Acting Company, and a playwrighting fellowship
from the California Arts Council.
Her play “Devil Dog Six” was produced by the Moxie Theatre Company and won the 2007 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding New Play presented by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. “The Island of No Tomorrows”
was selected as one of six plays from more than 600 submissions for a staged reading at the 2007
International Playwrights Festival at the Warehouse Theatre in England. She is currently collaborating
with the composer Dennis McCarthy on a musical, “Soul on Vinyl,” which earned a reading at the New Jersey
Repertory on Nov. 17, 2008.
Contact Mary at fengar@aol.com.
