Claire Greising

Claire Greising is a playwright from Evanston, Illinois. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College.

Plays include: lonely people on the internet (Winner of Brooklyn College's Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing; Semi-Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center; Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award; reading at Loading Dock Theatre; Second-Rounder at the Austin Film Festival; and developed through an intensive at Workshop Theater), The Artwork Is Behind You (produced at Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, MI with PTD Productions; Finalist for NYU’s Goldberg Prize; Second-Rounder at the Austin Film Festival), Addiction As A Verb (Finalist for the New Jersey Play Lab Residency; developed at...

Claire Greising is a playwright from Evanston, Illinois. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College.

Plays include: lonely people on the internet (Winner of Brooklyn College's Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing; Semi-Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center; Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award; reading at Loading Dock Theatre; Second-Rounder at the Austin Film Festival; and developed through an intensive at Workshop Theater), The Artwork Is Behind You (produced at Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, MI with PTD Productions; Finalist for NYU’s Goldberg Prize; Second-Rounder at the Austin Film Festival), Addiction As A Verb (Finalist for the New Jersey Play Lab Residency; developed at Workshop Theater), Carbondale, IL (Semi-Finalist for Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Marathon of One Act Plays), GERADEAUS (Semi-Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center; reading at Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 as part of the Brooklyn College Thesis Readings), Thank You For The Opportunity (Semi-Finalist at the Austin Film Festival; reading at The Brick Aux as part of Brooklyn College's New Play Lab), All Smoke, No Gun (reading at Loading Dock Theatre), Call & Response (reading at Loading Dock Theatre), The Rise and Fall of Adam Neumann (reading at The Tank), and her solo show about Al Gore, titled An Inconvenient Truth 3: This Time, It’s Even More Inconvenient (performed at SolocomNYC). Her ten-minute works have been presented as part of The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, Brooklyn College's Weasel Festival, and Confessions: Scenes From A Party.

Claire is also an essayist and music journalist whose writing has appeared in Paste Magazine, Hobart, Human Parts, and elsewhere on the internet. She's a member of WET, a Lloyd Team at UCB, and she has performed stand up around the country. She currently lives in Manhattan.

Scripts

lonely people on the internet

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

An Amish teenager, a nonverbal speedrunner, a divorced agoraphobe, and a part-time cam model daylighting as an online therapist enter a chat room. A play about communication, connection, delusion, and destruction.

An Amish teenager, a nonverbal speedrunner, a divorced agoraphobe, and a part-time cam model daylighting as an online therapist enter a chat room. A play about communication, connection, delusion, and destruction.

The Artwork Is Behind You

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

Tess, a recent graduate from Sarah Lawrence College, needs to do two things at her new job as a museum security guard: Stand still and be quiet. As she is trained by her 60 year-old colleague Ned, it becomes clear that those are the two things she cannot do. In conversations that take place while guarding the priceless Ad Reinhardt painting behind them, the two realize that their seemingly disparate lives aren't...

Tess, a recent graduate from Sarah Lawrence College, needs to do two things at her new job as a museum security guard: Stand still and be quiet. As she is trained by her 60 year-old colleague Ned, it becomes clear that those are the two things she cannot do. In conversations that take place while guarding the priceless Ad Reinhardt painting behind them, the two realize that their seemingly disparate lives aren't as different as they seem.

GERADEAUS

Written by Claire Greising

Synopsis

Franny and her dad Frankie ride their bikes to Bielefeld.

Franny and her dad Frankie ride their bikes to Bielefeld.

Thank You For The Opportunity

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

Allegra begins a new job at The Company, where she'll do anything to rise up through the corporate ladder. Meanwhile, a Sister and Brother grapple with their Father's decline at a memory care facility that practices therapeutic fibbing. A play about the meaning of doing labor and the labor of making meaning.

Allegra begins a new job at The Company, where she'll do anything to rise up through the corporate ladder. Meanwhile, a Sister and Brother grapple with their Father's decline at a memory care facility that practices therapeutic fibbing. A play about the meaning of doing labor and the labor of making meaning.

MEETING THE FBI AGENT WHO READS MY EVERY TEXT MESSAGE AND SEDUCING HIM BECAUSE HE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO TRULY KNOWS ME: A ROMANTIC TRAGEDY IN THREE PARTS

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

Sarah propositions Agent Morris, the FBI agent who reads her every text message. Hilarity and heartbreak follows.

Sarah propositions Agent Morris, the FBI agent who reads her every text message. Hilarity and heartbreak follows.

Addiction As A Verb

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

After dropping out of college, John finds himself working at the Stop 'n' Shop in his suburban hometown. Portraying dependency in its many forms, Addiction As A Verb dares to ask the questions: What keeps us from returning to the things that we are avoiding? How do you change when everything around you has stayed the same? And is it possible to drink an entire gallon of milk in one big gulp?

After dropping out of college, John finds himself working at the Stop 'n' Shop in his suburban hometown. Portraying dependency in its many forms, Addiction As A Verb dares to ask the questions: What keeps us from returning to the things that we are avoiding? How do you change when everything around you has stayed the same? And is it possible to drink an entire gallon of milk in one big gulp?

The Last Dive Bar in North America

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

As America sinks into the ocean, two exes meet up for a final beer and conversation.

As America sinks into the ocean, two exes meet up for a final beer and conversation.

Carbondale, IL

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

Abby, a recent graduate from SIU, has lived in Carbondale her entire life and is eager to escape the claustrophobic environment-- Specifically, the insular queer community. When she meets newcomer Dr. Kensington at a run-of-the-mill appointment, Abby realizes that the sense of home she's come to find in Carbondale isn't something to be taken for granted. The two quickly form a strong connection, but is it too...

Abby, a recent graduate from SIU, has lived in Carbondale her entire life and is eager to escape the claustrophobic environment-- Specifically, the insular queer community. When she meets newcomer Dr. Kensington at a run-of-the-mill appointment, Abby realizes that the sense of home she's come to find in Carbondale isn't something to be taken for granted. The two quickly form a strong connection, but is it too late?

All Smoke, No Gun

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

Marty is a musician. Eric is a music journalist. Marty just released a new album. Eric wrote a negative review about it. Marty decides to shoot and kill Eric. There's one major problem with this plan-- Marty has no idea how to use a gun. A play about honesty, violence, and boneheaded idiots.

Marty is a musician. Eric is a music journalist. Marty just released a new album. Eric wrote a negative review about it. Marty decides to shoot and kill Eric. There's one major problem with this plan-- Marty has no idea how to use a gun. A play about honesty, violence, and boneheaded idiots.

Call & Response

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

A group of old friends gather by a quarry in Redgranite, WI to tell tall tales. But something more sinister is afoot-- Are these stories just urban legends, or do the monsters they describe really exist? A play about the power of repetition, the claustrophobia that comes with being adults stuck in childish friendship dynamics, and the American conception of the devil.

A group of old friends gather by a quarry in Redgranite, WI to tell tall tales. But something more sinister is afoot-- Are these stories just urban legends, or do the monsters they describe really exist? A play about the power of repetition, the claustrophobia that comes with being adults stuck in childish friendship dynamics, and the American conception of the devil.

I Become Balloon

by Claire Greising

Synopsis

Addie has locked herself in the bathroom at a house party. Lea is trying to get her to come out. A play about fear and friendship.

Addie has locked herself in the bathroom at a house party. Lea is trying to get her to come out. A play about fear and friendship.