Lisa Kenner Grissom

Lisa Kenner Grissom is an LA-based playwright/screenwriter whose work explores complex social truths through intimate relationships. Her award-winning short film Tattoo You is based on her award-winning one-act, Tattoo You (Winner, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival) and has been screened at over 15 film festivals nationally and internationally. Full-length plays include Here Comes The Night, Four Chambers (Winner, Jean Kennedy Smith Award), Motherland (Finalist, Jewish Plays Project), Building The Perfect Chair (Finalist: TruVoices) and Shelter (Semi-Finalist: PlayPenn). She has been a finalist for the Ashland New Play Festival, O’Neill National Playwright Conference, The Lark, Playwrights' Center, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship and Heideman Award. Short plays are published by...

Lisa Kenner Grissom is an LA-based playwright/screenwriter whose work explores complex social truths through intimate relationships. Her award-winning short film Tattoo You is based on her award-winning one-act, Tattoo You (Winner, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival) and has been screened at over 15 film festivals nationally and internationally. Full-length plays include Here Comes The Night, Four Chambers (Winner, Jean Kennedy Smith Award), Motherland (Finalist, Jewish Plays Project), Building The Perfect Chair (Finalist: TruVoices) and Shelter (Semi-Finalist: PlayPenn). She has been a finalist for the Ashland New Play Festival, O’Neill National Playwright Conference, The Lark, Playwrights' Center, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship and Heideman Award. Short plays are published by Smith & Kraus. Lisa twice attended the O'Neill Playwrights Conference as a Kennedy Center Fellow. Her work has been presented/developed at The Kennedy Center, Antaeus Company, Barrow Group, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Chalk Rep, Clurman Theater, Garage Theatre Ensemble, Inkwell Theater, Jewish Plays Project, Moving Arts, Manhattan Theatre Source and The Road Theatre Company. Originally from Boston, Lisa is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received her MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University, She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Playwrights Union, Maestra, and Honor Roll. www.lisakennergrissom.com

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