FOUNDING MEMBER
VICTORIA Z. DALY, an Emmy Award-winning writer/story editor/producer, is the Founder and Director of The 9th Floor, now in its 15th season.
Her plays include Doppelgänger, Sam, Demeter and Polly, Shell Collection, Invisible, Far North, On the Cross Bronx, Circling the Globe, Raw, Final Rest, High Water Line, Bottom of the Order and What to Do About It (#AfterTheBans.) They have been developed/ produced at venues including the Actors Studio, Valdez Theatre Conference, ATHE Conference, Short+Sweet Festivals in Hollywood, Dubai, and Perth, the Vspyshka Theatre in Russia, Supersound Scotland Radio, Alliance for Jewish Theatre, Berrie Center, KPBX-FM (NPR,) and the Edinburgh Festival.
Recent awards include: Regional Emmy (producer/story editor,) 3 Seconds in October: The Shooting of Andy Lopez (PBS); “The 9 Most Memorable Plays of the Last 9 Years,” Warner International Playwrights Festival, Connecticut (Final Rest); the Neem Independent International Award, Russia (High Water Line); Winner, Impossible Fest, Chicago (High Water Line); Best Play, Short+Sweet Dubai (On the Cross Bronx); Winner, Grand Theatre Playwriting Competition, Georgia (Final Rest.)
Raw and Other Short Plays, a collection of 7 of her plays, is published by Next Stage Press. Other short plays and monologues are published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books (3x) — including in She Persisted: Thirty Ten-Minute Plays by Women over Forty, which debuted on Amazon in November as the #1 New Release in American Dramas and Plays; the New Short Play Festival (Amazon); MonologueBank; The Last Frontier Theatre Conference; and some scripts.
Vicki is a Faculty Member in the Plays in Progress program at the Dramatists Guild Institute, the educational arm of the Dramatists Guild of America, where she works with Guild members to develop their new plays, and also consults privately.
She has taught playwriting for such organizations as Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights, Inc., the Fly Arts Center, Litchfield Performing Arts, Playmaking, and her own The Write Stuff! programs. A former physical actor, she also taught and performed commedia dell'arte, clown and mask work in Paris, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in New York City.
As a television producer, script consultant, and executive, Vicki has worked for entertainment and media organizations including Lifetime Cable Television, Warner Brothers, and the American Broadcasting Companies. Her journalism has appeared nationally in Glamour, Health, Portfolio, etc.
Education: MFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts; Certificat d'Etudes in Theater, L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris; A.B. and M.B.A., Harvard. Member, Dramatists Guild of America; Actors Studio Playwrights and Directors Workshop; League of Professional Theatre Women; International Centre for Women Playwrights; and Honor Roll!, an advocacy group for women+ playwrights over 40.