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.