Rinne B. Groff’s plays and musicals have been produced at the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Trinity Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Rep, the Women’s Project, PS122, and Clubbed Thumb, among others, in the United States and internationally. She also writes for television and teaches in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Rinne is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Obie Award grant. Founding member of Elevator Repair Service Theater Company. New Dramatists, Dramatist Guild.
"A riveting drama for three actors and an ensemble of marionettes . . . [Groff's] semifictional dive into one real Jewish writer's litigious battle over Anne Frank's diary is a compelling foray along a thin line between idealism and fanaticism." —The San Francisco Chronicle [on Compulsion]
“Groff assembles the story with a nod to Tom Stoppard, past and present ricocheting off one another in illuminating ways . . . Even as her play shows the folly of Ruby’s and Lulu’s dreams, it celebrates them for persisting in those dreams; she exposes the limits of idealism while inspiring us to embrace idealism anew. It is a mature work from a young playwright.” —New York magazine [on The Ruby Sunrise]
“Originality—it’s rare but you can experience the pleasurably sharp intake of breath it brings by seeing Rinne Groff’s Inky . . . a neat little noir comedy full of deft twists, acerbic quips, and a lunge at your guts.” —Francine Russo, The Village Voice
Selected Works
