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Doug Grissom

DOUG GRISSOM

  
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Doug Grissom is an associate Professor at the University of VirginiA. His plays have been produced at many regional Theatres, including INTaR in New York City, TheatreVirginia, the Source Theatre in Washington D.C., Mill Mountain Theatre, and Theatre 40 in Los Angeles. He has won several awards, including the Virginia Playwriting award (Tocoi Light), Mill Mountain New Play Competition (Ned & Dan's History Emporium), and the Outstanding New Play award at the Washington Theatre Festival (Year of Pilgrimage). His educational Theatre piece on acquaintance rape, But I Said No (co-written with Margaret Baldwin), has received national acclaim and has toured extensively for the last ten years on college campuses around the country. He has written two educational pieces for the Charlottesville Sexual assault Resource center. I Never Saw It Coming, which deals with teen assault, tours high schools in Virginia and has been seen by over 20,000 students so far;ear of the Beholder is his most recent work, addressing sexual harassment in middle school. In 1998 his play Deep Down was produced Off-Broadway at the INTaR Theatre, and received positive reviews from Fintan O'Toole in the New York Daily News, John Simon in New York Magazine,and Time Out New York, among others.Deep Down went on to be produced at the Venture Theatre in Philadelphia and the Main Street Theatre in Houston. In 2002 his one-acts Contact and Undress Me Clarancewere published by Dramatic Publishing Company in an anthology of new American playwriting called 25 IN 10. His work is also published by Playscripts, Inc. Mr. Grissom is a co-founder of Offstage Theatre in Charlottesville, Virginia, a Theatre devoted to the performance of original works in site-specific venues.

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

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         But I Said No         Contact         Deep Down         Ear Of the Beholder         Elvis People         Fish Kill On Maria Sanchez         I Never Saw It Coming         Ned And Dan's History Emporium         Undress Me Clarence         Year Of Pilgrimage

But I Said No

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Date rape.

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Contact

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Deep Down

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Ned, a farmer in the American South has hired a black ex-convict to dig on his land. But dig for what?

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Ear Of the Beholder

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Sexual harassment in High School

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Elvis People

Elvis People
No performer before or since has had the impact of Elvis Presley. 84% of all Americans say their lives have been touched by Elvis in some way. Now, in this new play by Doug Grissom, you will meet some of the funny and touching cast of characters whose lives were forever changed by 'the King' as Grissom traces the influence of Presley on our culture.
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New World Stages, NY    2007

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Dramatic Publishing Company   978-1583426388

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Fish Kill On Maria Sanchez

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a black man and a white man are fishing together in a small Southern town in 1964. Despite the racial tensions everywhere around them, the two men try to continue their secret friendship, even as one betrays the other.

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Primary Stages (New York, NY, United States)    1992

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I Never Saw It Coming

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Consequences of a teen sexual assault.

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Ned And Dan's History Emporium

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Undress Me Clarence

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Year Of Pilgrimage

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