Devon Wade Granmo

Devon Wade Granmo

DEVON WADE GRANMO (he/him) is a playwright, performer and theater artist who hails from the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest and now lives and works in Brooklyn (natch).

His plays Medusa, Shangri-LA, The Duchess of Malibu, Snake River, The Way Out, The Harriad, of course…, and Dirty Water have been workshopped and developed at Action/Adventure Theatre, The Fertile Ground Festival of New...
DEVON WADE GRANMO (he/him) is a playwright, performer and theater artist who hails from the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest and now lives and works in Brooklyn (natch).

His plays Medusa, Shangri-LA, The Duchess of Malibu, Snake River, The Way Out, The Harriad, of course…, and Dirty Water have been workshopped and developed at Action/Adventure Theatre, The Fertile Ground Festival of New Work, Sand & Glass, Vital Joint/Title:Point, and The Brick.

In addition to his own work, he frequently performs and collaborates with Title:Point, is a proud staff member at The Brick, and works with other Brooklyn-based artists in various production & artistic capacities. He received his BA in Theatre from Reed College in 2006 and from 2007-2015 was a Co-Artistic Director and producing company member of Action/Adventure Theatre, a theater collective and performance venue which he co-founded in Portland, OR.

Plays

  • Medusa by Devon Wade Granmo
    Cast: 
    12–100
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 14 more
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    Keyword: Greek mythology, face acting + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, faith-based, fantasy, farce, horror, movement/physical, pageant, political, romantic comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: Greek mythology, face acting, puppetry, masks, magic, a Chorus of Harpies, Zither-Punk, Country Goat Song
    Medusa is a gorgon. She’s got snakes for hair. Her gaze turns men to stone. She’s a head and she’s here to tell her tale.
  • Shangri-LA by Devon Wade Granmo
    Cast: 
    15–50
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 14 more
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    Keyword: Southern California, spirituality + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, faith-based, holiday, horror, immersive, movement/physical, musical, pageant, political, satire, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Southern California, spirituality, Veganism, Toxic Positivity, Cults, Dystopia, american fable, Grand Guignol
    An Evening of Ecstatic Rituals, Music, Plant Based Recipe Demonstrations and Messages from a Utopian Future, with a heavy and heady dose of Blood and Grotesqueries. A bit of Zardoz, a dash of Logan's Run, and a big helping of filtered and poetic memories of working in a spiritual, organic, vegan restaurant. We're all just screaming into the waterfall.
  • The Duchess of Malibu or "Brit donne gone madde again" by Devon Wade Granmo
    Cast: 
    12–100
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: pop, Malibu + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, musical, pageant, tragedy
    Keyword: pop, Malibu, revenge, Southern California Fantasy, dance break
    BJS is a duchess of Malibu, but she lives under the oppression of a conservatorship run by her father and a shadowy cabal of lawyers and managers. Her life is not really her own.
    A bloody, witchy dream of a Revenge Tragedy with Pop Music Video Dance Breaks.
  • The Way Out by Devon Wade Granmo
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 9 more
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    Keyword: Los Angeles, Theosophy + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, movement/physical, musical, pageant, political, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: Los Angeles, Theosophy, Moorcrest, spiritualism, science, Steampunk, drag, climate crisis, earthquake
    Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, California. Mary and James clean the house and tend to the Tesla. The Musician plays her harp. The Comedian plays darts. Her Holiness expounds on Matters Spiritual, and Herr Doktor works on Science. There's probably a Gorgeous Sunset and a Tremor or two. Just an average day in a City-State-Run-By-Celebrities-And-A-Gratitude-Cult. The Way Out is a Post-Climate-Catastrophe-...
    Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, California. Mary and James clean the house and tend to the Tesla. The Musician plays her harp. The Comedian plays darts. Her Holiness expounds on Matters Spiritual, and Herr Doktor works on Science. There's probably a Gorgeous Sunset and a Tremor or two. Just an average day in a City-State-Run-By-Celebrities-And-A-Gratitude-Cult. The Way Out is a Post-Climate-Catastrophe-Hollywood-Dystopian-Pastoral-Comedy replete with High Edwardian fashion, dream ballets set to harp arrangements of Doobie Brothers songs, and a steampunk rocket-ship.
  • The Harriad by Devon Wade Granmo
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    10–100
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: epic, History + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, faith-based, pageant, political, satire
    Keyword: epic, History, Road, Gods and Goddesses, national personifications, war, democracy, republics
    “The American Experiment Is Over!” So declare the Gods. Athena is missing and Columbia (the Personification of the United States, not the river) is on a mission to find her. Harry gets a visit from his dead Mum who tasks him with overthrowing the United States to win back the Colonies for Queen and Country. Do their paths cross? Boy do they ever. The Harriad is a pseudo-Homeric war epic/pseudo-Shakespearean...
    “The American Experiment Is Over!” So declare the Gods. Athena is missing and Columbia (the Personification of the United States, not the river) is on a mission to find her. Harry gets a visit from his dead Mum who tasks him with overthrowing the United States to win back the Colonies for Queen and Country. Do their paths cross? Boy do they ever. The Harriad is a pseudo-Homeric war epic/pseudo-Shakespearean History play disguised as an American-as-Apple-Pie Picaresque Road Play disguised as an exploration of the thesis that the United States should break up into a collection of smaller autonomous Republics.
  • of course... by Devon Wade Granmo
    Cast: 
    5–9
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Pacific Northwest, the Oregon coast + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: Pacific Northwest, the Oregon coast, ocean, sasquatch, food, Norse mythology, surreal pastoral
    Tom and Sheryl are getting a divorce.
    A walk on the beach.
    Dead seals, a sasquatch, Norse gods trapped in lighters.
    The ocean goes in. The ocean goes out.
    It's the Coast.
  • Dirty Water by Devon Wade Granmo
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Pacific Northwest, surreal pastoral + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: Pacific Northwest, surreal pastoral, marijuana, LSD, hippies, UFO, ghosts, endless war on terror, AWOL, karaoke
    Just another day in your typical rural bed and breakfast run by hippies. Ghosts, buried treasure, UFOs, a little bit of LSD and a seance lead to an explosion of violence.