David Grimm

David Grimm is an award-winning New York based playwright and screenwriter. Plays include: MEASURE FOR PLEASURE (Public Theatre, winter '06; 2004 Bug 'n Bub Award; developed at the Sundance Theatre La... Read more
David Grimm is an award-winning New York based playwright and screenwriter. Plays include: MEASURE FOR PLEASURE (Public Theatre, winter '06; 2004 Bug 'n Bub Award; developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab and the Old Vic New Voices series); THE LEARNED LADIES OF PARK AVENUE (Hartford Stage); KIT MARLOWE (Public Theatre/NY Shakespeare Festival; cited by the "New York Post" in their list of the "Ten Best Plays of 2000"; GLAAD Media Award Nomination); SHERIDAN, OR SCHOOLED IN SCANDAL (La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Mark Brokaw); THE SAVAGES OF HARTFORD (Hartford Stage's Brand: New Festival; commissioned by the Public Theatre); EDGAR (Julie Harris Playwright Award; Panowski Award, Northern Michigan University); ENOUGH ROPE (Williamstown Theatre Festival, starring Elaine Stritch); A CHRISTMAS GOLEM (Minnesota Public Radio); KILLING HILDA (Stage Q); THEATROPHY (adobe); TWISTED (New York Stage & Film; developed in residence at the Sundance Writer's Retreat at Ucross, Wyoming); ONCE IN ELYSIUM (Hartford Stage’s Brand: New Festival); DIVINITY DU STYX (24-Hour Plays); an adaptation of Marlowe's TAMBURLAINE (commissioned by Lincoln Center Theatre, with Mark Brokaw); I WAKE UP SCREAMING; FOLLOWING WOLF; ORPHEUS IN HIS UNDERWEAR; and LIVING EXPENSES. David holds an MFA from NYU, a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and is a lecturer in Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and Columbia University. He is the recipient of an NEA/TCG Residency Grant and a member of New Dramatists, the Writer's Guild, the Dramatists Guild, and the PEN American Center.