BIO
Marjorie Duffield is a lyricist, playwright and screenwriter. She most recently penned lyrics for Over The Moon, an Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated animated feature-length musical from Netflix/Pearl Studios, written by Audrey Wells (The Hate U Give, Under The Tuscan Sun, Truth About Cats & Dogs) and directed by Oscar winner and Disney Legend Glen Keane (released October 2020). She received an Annie nomination for her work on the music, as well best original song nominations from the Hollywood Critics Association, the LEJA Award, the Satellite Award, and more.
As a writer for the stage, her play Ice Island: The Wait for Shackleton was produced off-Broadway by The Melting Pot Theatre Company. She has written book and lyrics for Sit-In at the Five & Dime with composer Janice Lowe (New Harmony Project, Voice & Vision, Dixon Place), Lucky Hans (White Bird Productions, music by Danny Ashkenasi), Cyber-Alice (Lincoln Center Directors Lab at HERE, music by Sunmee Cho), In a Lake of Fire (Williamstheatre, music by Greg Pliska – Winner, Moss Hart Award and Finalist, Richard Rodgers Awards), and Tit Tales, A Body Politics Cabaret (WOW Café and Williamstheatre, music by Greg Pliska). Other plays include On The Road To Last Chance (Theatre 333, Dixon Place) and Fever (Women’s Project & Productions at La Mama Galleria). Her current projects include lyrics for Vaude and Someday (both with music by Chris Curtis), and the libretto for Viral (music by Xander Green) and Presenting Olivia Jameson (music by Robert Waldman).
Marjorie’s other screen work includes the screenplay for Betterthandead, a feature-length film (2012), and episodes of the TV series Caged (2016). Her new feature length screenplay Scary-Etta, a spooky comedy set in Iceland, was co-written with Diana Yanez. In addition, she is writing, producing and acting in a comedic web series entitled, Pip and Pen Show. (Also created with Diana Yanez.) Marjorie also directs (Viva La Evolucion, Time Out NY Critics’ Pick – 2010 New York International Fringe Festival) and acts (Pip and Pen Show, Purdy Teefs, The Dragging, Fawnbook and Zamboni Godot.)
In addition, Marjorie has worked extensively as a theatre educator with numerous arts-in-education programs including The Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Women’s Project, the International School Theatre Association (ISTA) and The Calhoun School in Manhattan where she received the Uhry/Thompson Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009).
Marjorie is a graduate of Williams College and received her MFA from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where she was a Jacob Javits Fellow. She was a recipient of the Dramatist Guild’s Jonathan Larson Memorial Musical Theatre Fellowship, and is a member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll!, and the Society of Composers and Lyricists.