Diana Grisanti is a Playwright in Residence at Theatre [502] in Louisville, Kentucky. Her plays include The Patron Saint of Losing Sleep (premiere: Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte); River City (NNPN Rolling World Premiere); Abilene; Semantics; and The Class of ’94 (commissioned and produced by Weber State University). She was a contributing writer on the bluegrass-inspired anthology That High Lonesome Sound, which premiered in the 2015 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

She has written multiple plays for young actors and audiences: Dorina and the Plague (Commonwealth Theatre Center); Extracurricular, or The World Is Caving In on My Little Brain (Idyllwild Arts Academy); and The Starkweather-South High School Physics Club First Annual End-of-Year Lock-In, or Ghost Party (commissioned and produced by Cleveland Play House).

She has also co-written three plays with her spouse and colleague, Steve Moulds: The Two Lobbyists of Verona, the first world premiere in the history of Kentucky Shakespeare; The Stranger and Ludlow Quinn, a serialized epic in 11 parts; and The Baker Goes to War, a socialist play for children.

Diana was a Core Apprentice at The Playwrights’ Center, the inaugural recipient of the Marsha Norman Spirit of Achievement Lilly Award, a finalist for the Dramatist Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award, an Al Smith Fellow through the Kentucky Arts Council, and a Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University. Currently, she is at work on a play for the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage (StageOne Family Theatre commission), and an ethnographic play about Vanderbilt’s women’s bowling team--2018 NCAA champs!