[1] Cefaly is the recipient of the 2023 National New Play Network's Goldman Prize (Alabaster), the 2017 Lambda Literary Award ("Lammy") in the category of LGBTQ Drama (The Gulf),[2] the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award (The Gulf),[3] and the 2017 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize (Alabaster).
[5] She is the founder of Into the Woods, an annual artist's retreat in coastal Delaware, and the author of How to Playwright, a Substack newsletter.
Cefaly's play Alabaster won the 2017 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize from Marin Theatre Company.
[8] Its full length adaptation received its world premiere at Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, in September 2016 (directed by Joe Calarco).
[15] In October 2015, Cefaly directed the world premiere of what would become her most popular play, Maytag Virgin, as part of the inaugural Women's Voices Theatre Festival.