Hal Corley is an American television writer and playwright. He was associate head writer for All My Children and As The World Turns, for which he won five Daytime Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards. His plays have been developed with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Walnut Street Theatre, Premiere Stages, Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, New York's Westbeth, San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center, 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 Year Award Category Show Result Notes1992Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAll My Children1992Writers Guild of America AwardBest writingAll My Children1993Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAll My Children1994Writers Guild of America AwardBest writingAll My Children1995Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAll My Children1996Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAll My Children1996Writers Guild of America AwardBest writingAll My Children1997Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAll My Children1997Writers Guild of America AwardBest writingAll My Children1998Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAll My Children1998Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAll My Children1999Writers Guild of America AwardBest writingAll My Children 1999Writers Guild of America AwardBest writingAs the World Turns2000Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAs the World Turns2001Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAs the World Turns2002Daytime Emmy AwardsBest writingAs the World Turns
Playwriting awards Year Play Venue Award Notes2007ODD2007 Premiere Stages Play FestivalWinner2011The Imaginary OrangeFirstStage LAFirst Prize Winner2011TreedBelhaven UniversityOne-Act Contest Winner2018Married NorthThe Arch and Bruce Brown FoundationHRC Showcase AwardHonorable Mention
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www.sfgate.com Doollee Profile PlayWorksOnline Samuel French store for three of Corley's plays