Rinne Groff

Rinne Groff’s plays and musicals, including Compulsion, Saved, The Ruby Sunrise, In the Bubble, Moliere Impromptu, Jimmy Carter Was a Democrat, Orange Lemon Egg Canary, What Then, Inky, and The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem, have been produced and commissioned by Yale Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Rep, Trinity Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Women’s Project, P.S. 122, Clubbed Thumb, Target Margin, and Andy’s Summer Playhouse, among others. Rinne is a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE Award grant, and a NYSCA grant. Residencies: the MacDowell Colony, the Orchard Project, the Sundance Theatre Lab, the Australian National Playwrights Conference, the Perry Mansfield New Noises Festival, and the Chautauqua Theater Company. Other affiliations: Elevator Repair Service (founding member), New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she teaches in the Department of Dramatic Writing. Yale B.A., NYU M.F.A.