His name is usually given as Phormis, but the form in Suda is also found in Athenaeus (see note 6 below) and Themistius (Or. 27.337b), who knows of him from Aristotle (Poetics?). See Kaibel, Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 1.148, for the little else we know of his work. An Arcadian named Phormis of Maenalus, who fought as a general in Sicily for Gelon and Hieron (Paus. 5.27.1,7), was perhaps confused with him (if not the same man).
[1] See generally epsilon 2766.
[2] Tyrant of Gela [491-485] and of Syracuse [485-478].
[3] The [Trojan] Horse and The sack of Troy appear be alternative names for the same play. The number of his plays is thus six including the Atalanta. See Pickard-Cambridge p.289 n.2.
[4] The last three titles refer to the same play. Kepheus was the father of Andromeda, who was rescued by Perseus after he had severed the head of the gorgon Medusa. Cf. pi 1786.
[5] The σκηνή was a tent or booth-like structure [later a stage building] used both as a backdrop to the stage and as a place where an actor could change and make his entrance and exit. See Plato Laws. [Web address 1]
[6] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.652A.