RINNE GROFF

Rinne Groff is a playwright and performer, born in New York, and raised in and around Tampa, Florida. Her work has been produced by the Public Theater, Trinity Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Women’s Project, PS122, Clubbed Thumb, Target Margin, and Andy’s Summer Playhouse, among others. Rinne is a recipient of an Obie Award grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Whiting Writers Award, and a NYSCA Individual Artist grant. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Sundance Theatre Lab, the Australian National Playwrights Conference, the Perry Mansfield New Noises Festival, and The Chautauqua Theater Company. Affiliations: Elevator Repair Service (founding member), the Dramatists Guild, New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, Clubbed Thumb, Target Margin, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she teaches in the Department of Dramatic Writing. Publications: Theater Magazine, BlackBook Magazine, The Complete Plays of the Humana Festival 2003 and 2004, and Playscripts, Inc. Yale B.A. ’91. NYU M.F.A. ’99. She is currently working on two musicals and an adaptation of a novel for the stage.