David
Grimm
Patrick Herold
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David Grimm is an award-winning New York-based playwright and screenwriter. Plays: Measure for Pleasure (Public Theatre, 2004 Bug ’n Bub Award); The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue (Hartford Stage); Kit Marlowe (Public Theatre; Cited by the NY Post in their list of the “10 Best Plays of 2000”; GLAAD Media Award Nomination); Sheridan, Or Schooled in Scandal (La Jolla Playhouse); Edgar (Julie Harris Playwright Award; Panowski Award); Enough Rope (Williamstown Theatre Festival, starring Elaine Stritch); The Savages of Hartford (Hartford Stage's Brand: New Festival), Divinity Du Styx (24-Hour Plays), Once In Elysium, Twisted, Theatrophy, A Christmas Golem, and others. David is the recipient of an NEA/TCG Residencey Grant and has developed work at the Sundance Theatre Lab in Utah, the Sundance Writer's Retreat at Ucross, Wyoming, New York Stage & Film, The Old Vic. David holds an MFA from NYU, a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has been a lecturer in Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and Columbia University.
THE LEARNED LADIES OF PARK
AVENUE
Comedy
5M, 5W
Unit set
Translated and freely adapted from Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes. Set in
1936, this screwball comedy in rhyming couplets follows the romantic
adventures of Dicky and Betty who must overcome the insane artistic and
philanthropic pretentions of Betty's family in order to marry.
Commissioned and Produced by
Hartford Stage (2005).
MEASURE FOR PLEASURE
Comedy
4M, 3W
Flexible Set
Set in the 18th Century, this romantic comedy sex romp (involving
disguises, mistaken identities, gender bending, and gay marriage)
examines the nature of happiness. Are human beings meant to be genuinely
happy, or is it an unattainable goal?
The Public Theatre/NY Shakespeare
Festival’s 2004 New Work Now; winner of the 2004 Bug ’n Bub Award.
THE SAVAGES OF HARTFORD
Drama
7M, 2W
Flexible Set
Family secrets, political ambition, monstrous acts. Firmly rooted in the
tradition of Jacobean revenge tragedies, the play presents a searing
family portrait set in modern-day Hartford, CT. Two brothers--one
returning from war, one thrown out onto the streets--search for the
meaning in a world that threatens to destroy all they hold dear.
Commissioned by the Public Theatre/NY Shakespeare Festival. Developed
at Hartford Stage with the support from the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency
Program for Playwrights, and the Vivendi Universal Residency Award.
KIT MARLOWE
Drama
12M (Doubling)
Flexible Set
Set in the seedy underworld of Elizabethan England, this story of the
meteoric rise and fall of Christopher Marlowe—playwright, poet, spy, and
sexual outlaw—charts the ambitions of youth in a cold and unforgiving
world.
“Fiendishly entertaining and wildly sensational.” —Time Out
Public Theatre/NY Shakespeare Festival (2000).
SHERIDAN OR, SCHOOLED IN
SCANDAL
Comic-Drama
6M, 3W
Flexible Set
“Smart, ambitious…sharply intriguing” (Variety), this darkly comic tale --
set in a London rife with gossip, blackmail, and political intrigue during
the reign of Mad King George III -- follows the development of the
friendship between famed playwright and theatre manager, Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, and the young poet, Lord Byron.
La Jolla Playhouse (2000).
ONCE IN ELYSIUM
Drama
7M, 1W
Flexible Set
How does one reconcile a life of the mind with a life of the senses? This
darkly hypnotic tale charts the final days of Jonathan Winckelmann, 18th
century Art Historian, and one of the chief proponents of the neoclassical
movement in sculpture and painting. On his way to Greece, Winckelmann
becomes waylaid in seedy, crime-ridden Trieste, and finds himself drawn
into a passion, which costs him his life.
Readings and workshops at the New York Theatre Workshop, and
Carnegie-Mellon Showcase of New Plays.
TWISTED (FIVE SCENES OF
LOVE AND FOLLY)
Comic-Drama
3M, 2W
Flexible Set
While on the run from the law, two petty criminals take refuge at the home
of an aging Midwestern widow and her hostile and neurotic teenage
daughter. When love strikes and bombs begin exploding in town, secrets are
confronted and alliances shift in this darkly comic tale.
Workshop production at NY Stage & Film (1998, Under the title The
Ballad of Lily From Hell); Reading at The Blue Heron, NYC (2001);
Developed at the Sundance Writer’s Retreat at Ucross, Wyoming (2001).
EDGAR
Drama
7M, 3W
Flexible Set
Born in a madhouse a hundred years ago, Edgar, a 21-year-old hunchback,
longs to discover the wonders of the world that lie beyond the asylum
walls. With the help of his tutor, a man imprisoned for brutally murdering
his wife, Edgar confronts the pains of youth and price of dreams.
Winner of the 1996 Julie Harris Playwright’s Award; the 1996 Panowski
Award; University of Northern Michigan (1996).
FOLLOWING WOLF
Drama
1M, 1W, Musicians (non-speaking)
Flexible Set
Eva Braun and the young guard assigned as her chaperone traverse the years
of World War II. Opening on an idyllic afternoon on a beach and ending in
a Berlin bunker, this chilling tale explores the horrors that result from
political fanaticism.
Reading and workshops at the McCarter Theatre (1993); The New School
(1993); and the Hudson Stage Company (1999).
KILLING HILDA, a love story
One-act Comedy
2M, 1W
Flexible Set
A gay, mass-murdering Gynecologist discovers the pain of true love in this
fast-paced black comedy.
Produced by Blue Moon Productions, NYC (1999). Stage Q, Madison, WI
(2001).