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Name
  
Rinne Groff

Role
  
Playwright


Movies
  
My America

Plays
  
The Ruby Sunrise, Saved

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Education
  
Tisch School of the Arts (1999), Yale University (1991), New York University

Awards
  
Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Nominations
  
Outer Critics Circle Award for John Gassner Playwriting Award

Similar People
  
Michael Friedman, John Dempsey, Naomi Iizuka, Marcus Gardley, Danny Hoch

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Rinne Groff is an American playwright and performer.

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Biography

Rinne Groff Rinne Groff Theatre Credits

Groff was trained at Yale University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches.

Rinne Groff Rinne Groff Theatre Credits

A founding member of Elevator Repair Service Theater Company, she has been a part of the writing, staging, and performing of their shows since the company’s inception in 1991. She is at work on a commission from The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.

Rinne Groff Rinne Groff Theatre Credits

With playwright/lyricist John Dempsey and composer Michael Friedman, Groff co-wrote the book and lyrics for the stage musical adaptation of the movie Saved!. Her play Compulsion opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on February 1, 2011, starring Mandy Patinkin and directed by Oskar Eustis. The play had previously played at Yale Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, both in 2010.

Awards

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  • Recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Award
  • Recipient of a 2005 Whiting Award for drama
  • Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2002-03 for her play Orange Lemon Egg Canary
  • Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony in 2005.
  • Works

  • Inky (Clubbed Thumb and Salt Theater, 2000)
  • The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem (Target Margin Theater, 2000)
  • Jimmy Carter was a Democrat (produced at Clubbed Thumb and P.S. 122, 2002)
  • Orange Lemon Egg Canary (Actors Theater of Louisville, 2003)
  • You Never Know (co-writer with Charles Strouse) (Trinity Rep, 2005)
  • Molière Impromptu (Trinity Rep, 2005)
  • The Ruby Sunrise (Public Theater, November 2005, directed by Oskar Eustis)
  • What Then (Clubbed Thumb, 2006)
  • Compulsion (2010, Yale Repertory Theatre, 2010)
  • 77% (San Francisco Playhouse, 2014)
  • References

    Rinne Groff Wikipedia