Doug Grissom

Doug Grissom’s plays have been widely produced at many venues around the country, and Deep Down and Elvis People were mounted in major Off-Broadway productions and subsequently produced at regional theatres across the country. Other plays of his have been produced at Mill Mountain Theatre, the Source Theatre, Theatre Virginia, Venture Theatre, Main Street Theatre, and many others. Elvis People and several other plays of his have been published by Dramatic Publishing Company and Playscripts, Inc. His educational theatre piece on acquaintance rape, But I Said No (co-written with Margaret Baldwin), has received national acclaim, and has toured extensively on college campuses around the country. He has written two educational plays commissioned by the Charlottesville Sexual Assault...

Doug Grissom’s plays have been widely produced at many venues around the country, and Deep Down and Elvis People were mounted in major Off-Broadway productions and subsequently produced at regional theatres across the country. Other plays of his have been produced at Mill Mountain Theatre, the Source Theatre, Theatre Virginia, Venture Theatre, Main Street Theatre, and many others. Elvis People and several other plays of his have been published by Dramatic Publishing Company and Playscripts, Inc. His educational theatre piece on acquaintance rape, But I Said No (co-written with Margaret Baldwin), has received national acclaim, and has toured extensively on college campuses around the country. He has written two educational plays commissioned by the Charlottesville Sexual Assault Resource center: I Never Saw It Coming, addressing teen assault, toured high schools in Virginia and was seen by over 20,000 students; Ear of the Beholder, addressing sexual harassment in middle school, played extensively in middle schools in central Virginia.. He is a co-founder and current president of Offstage Theatre in Charlottesville, Virginia, a theatre devoted to the performance of original works in site-specific venues.

Scripts

Enemy of the People

by Doug Grissom

Synopsis

Adaptation of the Ibsen play, set in 1963. In this adaptation, the characters Hovstad (editor of the local paper) and Billings (Hovstad's assistant) are written as women.

Adaptation of the Ibsen play, set in 1963. In this adaptation, the characters Hovstad (editor of the local paper) and Billings (Hovstad's assistant) are written as women.

Dreyfus Affairs

by Doug Grissom

Synopsis

Based on the Dreyfus Affair, where a man was unjustly convicted of treason in 1890's France, this play adheres to the external facts of the case, but imagines the personal journey of Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, as they cope with years of separation and struggle. Minimal set and prop requirements.

Based on the Dreyfus Affair, where a man was unjustly convicted of treason in 1890's France, this play adheres to the external facts of the case, but imagines the personal journey of Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, as they cope with years of separation and struggle. Minimal set and prop requirements.