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Lisa Kenner Grissom

LISA KENNER GRISSOM

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robin Budd, Viewfinder Management

Lisa Kenner Grissom's play Tattoo You (National 10-Minute Play Award winner, The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival) has been seen by audiences in Washington D.C., Boston, New York and Los Angeles. Other short plays include: the girls (Boston Theatre Marathon), Orangutan & Lulu (Estrogenius Festival), Drinks Before Flight (Jewish Women's Theatre). Full-length plays include: MOTHERLAND (semi-finalist: Jewish Plays Project), Chambers (finalist: O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Lark, WordBRIDGE). Lisa attended the O'Neill Playwrights Conference as a Kennedy Center Playwright Observer and was a finalist for the Playwrights' Center Core Apprentice Program. Her work has been presented and/or developed at The Kennedy Center, Boston Playwrights Theatre, The Clurman Theater, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Blank Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Theatre of NOTE, and others. B.A. Wesleyan University; MFA Lesley University. Lisa is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild and The Playwrights Union

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Lisa Kenner Grissom's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Asshole         Building The Perfect Chair         Chambers         Drinks Before Flight         Gente Means People - (or the gentrification play)         girls, the         Motherland         Orangutan and Lisa         Penelope's Roses         Shelter         Tattoo You

Asshole

Synopsis:
Meet Lena. She may have a great ass but she can't hide behind it forever. When her personal taboo rears its ugly head, Lena must go on an unexpected journey as she confronts the unimaginable, seeking self-acceptance and inner strength along the way.

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1st Produced:
Collaboraction's Sketchbook Festival, Chicago    May 2014

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Genre:
Short play

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Building The Perfect Chair

Synopsis:
Creative and romantic partners Connie and Theo are trying to start a design revolution and follow in the footsteps of their artistic muses, Charles and Ray Eames. When they move to New York after winning an award, they want to hit the ground running. But when old romantic entanglements and newly surfaced artistic differences get in the way, they will have to confront what it means to build a perfect chairor relationship. What sacrifices must they make to make either or both possible?

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full length play

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Chambers

Synopsis:
There's no one way to grieve and Mari is determined to carve her own path. After her husband Daniel dies in a domestic terrorist incident, Mari plays cards with Daniel's ghost, smokes pot, and shocks her fellow support groupies whenever possible. Mari refuses to let go of Daniel but her compartmentalized life starts to fray at the edges. What is the cost of holding on? Of letting go?

Notes:
Finalist: ONeill National Playwrights Conference, The Lark, WordBRIDGE;Semi-finalist: Ashland New Play Festival, PlayPenn. A monologue from Chambers was selected and presented at the 2011 TCG Conference. Development: The Road Theatre Company Summer Playwright Festival; The Blank Theatre Company Living Room Series; The Playwrights Union Festival of New Work.

1st Produced:
Playwrights Union New Works Festival, New York    2010

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Genre:
full length play

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Drinks Before Flight

Synopsis:
When former college friends with benefits reunite years later at an airport bar, the past melts into the present like ice cubes in a cocktail glass.

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1st Produced:
The Boston Theatre Marathon And As Part Of The Jewish Women's Theatre Salon Series.    -

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gente Means People - (or the gentrification play)

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WIP

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girls, the

Synopsis:
The fraying friendship of two young girls is played out at the neighborhood coffee shop. It is a subtle tug-of-war between their shifting identities as each struggles to find her place in the world. Can their friendshp survive?

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Boston Theatre Marathon    -

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Motherland

Synopsis:
MOTHERLAND is a generational family drama that follows Lizzie, who, after being away for several years following her father's death, returns home to recoup from a nervous breakdown. Lizzie believes she will be getting some R&R, but instead her aging Russian grandmother is anxious to share memories and asks Lizzie to help her remember. Meanwhile, her mother has struck up a friendship with Lizzie's former high school boyfriend, who moved back home as he deals with a divorce. Caught between her family's past and her uncertain future, Lizzie discovers secrets about her mother and grandmother, which force her to turn the mirror on herself.

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Semi-finalist: Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship 2014; Jewish Plays Project.

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Genre:
full length play

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Orangutan and Lisa

Synopsis:
Orangutan and Lulu may have been together for two weeks, two years, or two decades. Along the journey of couple-hood, they must navigate intimacy and spatial relations to arrive at a place called happiness. Where will they land?

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1st Produced:
14th Annual Estrogenius Festival @ The Barrow Group Theater    Nov 2013

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Penelope's Roses

Synopsis:
When an ill-fated young couple hits the road to escape the dim prospects of their present life, their tenuous relationship grows frayed. Can they escape the dirt of the past?? Is there hope for their future?

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shelter

Synopsis:
Will is in love with Lily. Lily is in love with Will. But when he takes her home to meet the parents, their romance is thrust against the backdrop of family dysfunction. Love takes an unexpected turn down a dangerous path that challenges the very nature of love, family, and the concept of home. Can love survive? And where is that place that we can truly call home?

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Semi-Finalist: PlayPenn. Development: Monday Night Reading Series, Road Theatre Company; NOTEWorthy Reading Series, Theatre of NOTE.

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Genre:
full length play

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tattoo You

Tattoo You
When two women from the same town, yet with very different backgrounds, re-connect in the bathroom at their 20th high school reunion, their troubled past breaks the cool veneer of the present. Some scars dont fade away.

Notes:
38th Annual Samuel French Off Off-Broadway Short Play Festival

1st Produced:
Clurman Theatre, Theatre Row, NY    24 Jul 2013

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Genre:
ten min drama

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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