Theater Feiffer's work as a playwright has been produced
off-Broadway at
Playwrights Horizons, the
Atlantic Theater Company, the
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater,
MCC Theater and the
Cherry Lane Theatre, and regionally at
Williamstown Theatre Festival and elsewhere. Her first full-length play
How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them premiered at the
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in October 2014, directed by Kip Fagan. Her play ''I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard,'' directed by Trip Cullman and starring
Betty Gilpin and
Reed Birney, broke box office records for the
Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 space, was a
Time Out New York Critics Pick, and was nominated for an
Outer Critics Circle Award (the John Gassner Playwriting Award) in 2015. It had its
UK premiere in March 2017 at the
Finborough Theatre,
London. Her play
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, directed by Trip Cullman, won the Edgerton New Play Award before it premiered at
MCC Theater in Spring 2016. The play starred
Beth Behrs and
Lisa Emery and was a
New York Times Critic's Pick. It had its
UK premiere in October 2018 at the
Finborough Theatre,
London. The
Geffen Playhouse presented the West Coast premiere of the play in the fall as a part of their 2017–18 season in Los Angeles, which Feiffer also starred in. Feiffer's world premiere of her new play,
Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, a contemporary adaptation of
Anton Chekhov’s
Three Sisters, was part of the
Williamstown Theatre Festival 2017 season. The production was directed by Trip Cullman, and starred
Rebecca Henderson,
Tavi Gevinson,
Ryan Spahn, and
Tony Award nominees
Cristin Milioti,
Thomas Sadoski and
Micah Stock. The play received its New York premiere at
MCC Theater in June 2019, and was nominated for a 2020
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation and for a 2020
Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play. In March 2019,
Playwrights Horizons premiered Feiffer's other new play
The Pain of My Belligerence directed by Trip Cullman and featuring Feiffer in the lead role opposite
Hamish Linklater, for which she was nominated for a 2020 Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance. Feiffer won the National Young Playwrights' Contest in 2002 and the Lotos Foundation Award for Playwriting in 2015. Three of her plays have landed on
The Kilroys' List. Her plays have been produced, commissioned and developed by
Manhattan Theater Club,
Second Stage Theatre,
New York Theatre Workshop,
LAByrinth Theater Company, The
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center,
Cape Cod Theatre Project and elsewhere, and have been commissioned by
Manhattan Theater Club,
Williamstown Theatre Festival, the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
Atlantic Theater Company and
Playwrights Horizons. Her work is published by
Dramatists Play Service,
Overlook Press,
Vintage Books,
Applause Books,
Samuel French and Smith & Kraus. In addition to five full-length plays, she has written a variety of short plays.
Thank You So Much for Stopping was included in a 2011 short play anthology. ''I Didn't Want a Mastodon'' was produced by Core Artist Ensemble at the Barrow Group Studio Theater in New York City from September 21–23, 2012, and was also performed by the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City from April 11–13, 2014.
Frank Amends was first produced at the New Ohio Theatre in New York City in October 2012. She has performed off-Broadway in
subUrbia,
Election Day,
None of the Above,
Still Life,
Some Americans Abroad,
Tigers Be Still (for which she was nominated for a
Drama League Award),
Kenneth Lonergan's
Medieval Play and
Ethan Coen's
Women or Nothing. In April 2011, she made her Broadway debut in
The House of Blue Leaves starring
Ben Stiller,
Edie Falco and
Jennifer Jason Leigh, directed by
David Cromer, for which she won a
Theatre World Award. In Fall 2016, Feiffer starred in the Broadway revival of
The Front Page starring
Nathan Lane,
John Slattery,
John Goodman,
Holland Taylor,
Jefferson Mays,
Sherie Rene Scott, and
Robert Morse. She is writing the book for the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of
Thelma and Louise with music and lyrics by
Neko Case, directed by Trip Cullman.
Television and film As an actress, Feiffer's film credits include
Kenneth Lonergan's
You Can Count on Me,
Stephanie Daley,
Noah Baumbach's
The Squid and the Whale and
Margot at the Wedding,
Oren Moverman's
The Messenger,
Jared Hess's
Gentlemen Broncos, Jeff Lipsky's
Twelve Thirty,
Todd Haynes'
HBO miniseries
Mildred Pierce, Desiree Akhavan's
Appropriate Behavior, and Sasha Gordon's "It Had to be You" opposite
Cristin Milioti. She also guest-starred on the
HBO show
Flight of the Conchords in the Season Two episode "
Wingmen", and has guest-starred on
Ugly Betty,
The Good Wife,
Law & Order,
Torchwood and
Royal Pains. She had a recurring role in the third and final season of
Jonathan Ames' cult
HBO series
Bored to Death as
Ted Danson's character's recovering alcoholic daughter Emily. Additionally, Feiffer starred in the 2013 film ''
He's Way More Famous Than You, directed by Michael Urie, which she co-wrote with Ryan Spahn and executive produced. She also co-created and stars with Ryan Spahn in the 2015 Stage17.tv web series What's Your Emergency?'', the first season of which was directed by Urie. In 2014, Feiffer became a writer for the
Starz series
The One Percent, co-created by
Academy Award-winner
Alejandro González Iñárritu, which was scheduled to begin filming in 2016 but was put into turnaround the following year. Feiffer was a writer/producer for the
Amazon Studios series
Mozart in the Jungle. She was also a producer on the comedy series
Kidding starring
Jim Carrey for
Showtime, a Supervising Producer on FX's
Impeachment: American Crime Story for which she was nominated for a
WGA Award, a Consulting Producer on the
Apple TV+ series
Roar (created by
Carly Mensch and
Liz Flahive), and a co-executive producer on the
Apple TV+ series
Dear Edward (created by
Jason Katims). She has developed her own shows with
Apple,
Hulu,
Netflix,
Amazon,
Freeform,
TNT and
FX. In April 2023 it was announced that Feiffer would take over for
Ryan Murphy as the showrunner of
American Horror Story, becoming the first showrunner other than Murphy of the long-running franchise and the first female showrunner of a
Ryan Murphy Productions show. She wrote every episode of the show's twelfth season,
American Horror Story: Delicate. In October 2024, it was announced that Feiffer would showrun a future season of the show. In March 2025, it was announced that Feiffer had sold a show about crisis PR with
A24 and actress
Lizzy Caplan to
Netflix in a competitive bidding war. ==Filmography==