Rinne B. Groff’s plays and musicals, including Your Lie in April (West End premier), The Woman’s Party (2021 New York Times Critic’s Pick), The Red Beads, Fire in Dreamland, 77%, Comfort Inn, Compulsion, The Ruby Sunrise (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Saved (Lucille Lortel nomination and Broadway.com Audience Award), Jimmy Carter was a Democrat, Molière Impromptu, Orange Lemon Egg Canary, What Then, Inky, Seven Supermans, and The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem, have been produced by the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Kansas City Rep, Trinity Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Women’s Project, PS122, Target Margin, and Clubbed Thumb Theater, among others in the United States, and internationally. She is a founding member of the award-winning devised theater company Elevator Repair Service and also writes for television, most recently on AMC’s “The Audacity.” Rinne is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Obie Award grant, the Whiting Writers Award, and two NYSCA Individual Artist grants. B.A. from Yale College and M.F.A from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Dramatic Writing where she is currently a professor.
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