Grace Hoffman

Grace Hoffman

Grace Hoffman is a playwright, dramaturg and poet from the Bay Area. She graduated from Emerson College in 2016 and has since been included in TheatreWorks’ Amendment Project, The Dragon’s Monday Night Play Space Series,The Ohlone Playwrights Festival, and Bench Plays at Los Altos Stage Company. Her plays Intimacy & Other Forgotten Things (2015) and Blood Sun (2016) were included in Emerson College’s New...
Grace Hoffman is a playwright, dramaturg and poet from the Bay Area. She graduated from Emerson College in 2016 and has since been included in TheatreWorks’ Amendment Project, The Dragon’s Monday Night Play Space Series,The Ohlone Playwrights Festival, and Bench Plays at Los Altos Stage Company. Her plays Intimacy & Other Forgotten Things (2015) and Blood Sun (2016) were included in Emerson College’s New Works Festivals. Her poetry has appeared in East Coast Ink and Letters from Ugly Women. She participated in Company One's Season 20 PlayLab.

Plays

  • Loner by Grace Hoffman
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: dark comedy, romantic comedy
    Genre: dark comedy, romantic comedy
    The Grim Reaper has been hapless in romance until they meet Jose, a kind, tattooed bartender getting by in New York City. Everything is finally clicking for the Grim Reaper, except for the fact that Jose’s “death date” is looming near.
  • Gathering on Maple by Grace Hoffman
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, holiday + 1 more
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    Keyword: suburbia, christmas + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, holiday, zoom
    Keyword: suburbia, christmas, neighbors
    With the pandemic in full swing, the holidays will look a little different for neighborhood friends Mary Anne, Joyce, Deb and Carol. They are paring down their traditions and finding new ways to safely spread cheer, well everyone except for Joyce. Gathering on Maple is a Zoom play about friendship and the grey area that we have all come to be acutely familiar with during these unprecedented times.
  • An Aquarium Play by Grace Hoffman
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
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    Keyword: death and grief, friendship + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: death and grief, friendship, aquarium
    After a sudden loss in her family, Nikki returns home to help her parents grieve. She spends time in an aquarium in an effort to get away and befriends a teen conservation worker (CJ) and a broadnose sevengill shark (Malcom). Their friendships evolve, but Malcom begins taking on human feelings that can't live in a shark body.
  • Blood Sun by Grace Hoffman
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Blood Sun is the nonlinear love story of two childhood friends, Nadia and Will. Friendship is fuzzy when there is the enduring possibility for intimacy. This play explores that open vulnerability and the hard edges of making difficult choices.