A Comedy

By Vincent Delaney

October 30, 2020 at 7:30pm

It’s 1894. Young Annie Londonderry takes on a wager to become the first woman to bicycle solo around the world—setting off a firestorm in the women’s movement. This surprising comedy tells the true story of a complex early feminist icon, who pushed every boundary to achieve her goal.

About the Playwright

Vincent Delaney is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced across the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan. He’s thrilled to return to Orlando Shakes and PlayFest, which featured his comedy The Art of Bad Men in 2007. His plays have been produced, commissioned, and developed at the Guthrie, Humana Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, LAByrinth, New Harmony Project, Source Theatre Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Florida Stage, the Children’s Theatre Company, the Magic, Woolly Mammoth, Shakespeare and Company, Pittsburgh Public, the Lark, PlayLabs, Capital Rep, and Bristol Valley Theatre, among others.

• Las Cruces won the New Play Festival from Premiere Stages.
• Foreclosure is currently under option for a New York production.
• Fire Station 7 was commissioned by Seattle Children’s Theatre, where it had its world premiere.
• 99 Layoffs premiered at ACT Theatre and Radial Theatre Project, and was produced at Orange Theatre in Amsterdam; the script was a nominee for the ATCA Steinberg Award.
• The Sequence, commissioned by the Guthrie, has been produced around the country and overseas.
• The War Party was developed through the National New Play Network, and had simultaneous world premieres at Seattle Public Theatre and Philadelphia’s InterAct. It was selected to the New York International Fringe Festival.
• Ampersand won the Reva Shiner Comedy Award from the Bloomington Playwrights Project.

Other awards include McKnight and Bush Fellowships, Core Membership at the Playwrights Center, the Heideman from Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Seattle
Rep Writers Group, and a Jerome Commission.

Publications: Applause Books, Smith and Kraus, Samuel French, Heineman, Dramatics Magazine, Theatre Forum, and Playscripts.com.