Stephanie Grilo

Stephanie Grilo

Stephanie Grilo is a theatre artist currently living in Albuquerque, NM.

Stephanie is a MFA Graduate from the University of New Mexico's Dramatic Writing Program under the tutelage of Gregory S. Moss.

Her MFA Dissertation play, Red Dirt, received a two weekend sold-out run at UNM's Theatre X. In 2017 her play, Nassau County had a staged reading through Chicago's...
Stephanie Grilo is a theatre artist currently living in Albuquerque, NM.

Stephanie is a MFA Graduate from the University of New Mexico's Dramatic Writing Program under the tutelage of Gregory S. Moss.

Her MFA Dissertation play, Red Dirt, received a two weekend sold-out run at UNM's Theatre X. In 2017 her play, Nassau County had a staged reading through Chicago's Coffee and Whiskey Productions. And in 2020 her play, Daughter, went through development with a final filmed staged reading with Blackout Theatre Company in Albuquerque, NM.

She has been involved in several Indie Film Projects in Albuquerque throughout the past decade as well as a participant in the National 48 Hour Film Project.

She has performed throughout Albuquerque, New York and Internationally at the Beijing School of Drama. She is a proud member of the NM Shakespeare Festival, an Orchard Project Core Company Alumni, Blackout Theatre Company Alumni, and a member of the Chicago chapter of Naked Angels theatre company where several of works have been read.

Plays

  • The Women of Little Fannie Mine
    The Women of Little Fannie Mine is based on a once thriving mining town in Mogollon, New Mexico. Several fires and mining accidents occurred at this mine during the years of 1890-1910 before the mine became a ghost town. This play is a reimagining of the mines' story. What if the women of the town took over after a great fire killed the men miners? What would their story be?
  • Steal Your Heart Away
    Based on the song, J.J Sneed by Dolly Parton, two clowns, Dolly and Sneed are nothing but in love until they are not. These outlaw lovers find themselves in a great robbery opportunity but will they succeed? Will their love prevail?
  • The Commoners
    When the world is very clearly coming to an end, Four Individuals in very different positions of life, authority, and emotional stability serendipitously collide. Morals are questioned, beliefs are shifted; The Commoners asks us: What lengths would we go to when we know it's all going to rise up in flames?
  • 1,2,3,4 Go Tiger Titties!
    The year is 1978 and Bowling Alleys everywhere will be forever changed. With new technology comes new problems.
  • A Brief History of Why My Only Husband Drowned Himself in a Full Suit of Armor
    It's 1887. Just before his suicide in the Charles River, George Perkins writes to his wife the famous actress, Elizabeth Robins, "I will not stand in your light any longer." In this full-length drama, we travel in time with the great American actress, suffragette and playwright, Elizabeth Robins. Through her life and times we are met with the on-going fight of Women's Civil Rights on and off...
    It's 1887. Just before his suicide in the Charles River, George Perkins writes to his wife the famous actress, Elizabeth Robins, "I will not stand in your light any longer." In this full-length drama, we travel in time with the great American actress, suffragette and playwright, Elizabeth Robins. Through her life and times we are met with the on-going fight of Women's Civil Rights on and off the stage. An array of great contributors to the theatre as well as politics are among her including: Edwin Booth, Henrik Ibsen, and W.E. Dubois.
  • Red Dirt
    Welcome to Freedom Oklahoma where there’s nothin’ but red dirt. After her mother is sent to a mental health facility for attempted suicide, Amaly is court-ordered to live with her Uncle and three boy cousins. As she tries to adjust and live the life forced upon her, love, fear and tragedy ensue. Will Amaly inherit her mother's mistakes? Or will she change the paradigm?
  • Daughter
    It's quiet. The snow packs in the homestead tight. Wolves howl. Wind howls. She...howls. Daughter is a three person play about the impossible nature of a father and daughter's situation in the middle of a sequestered cabin in Maine. When a stranger arrives, memory and an unrelenting hunger awaken.
  • Self: A Clown Show for One
    a stranger arrives at your home.
    you don't invited them in.
    they gate is open, they'll find a way.
    you are undressed, in your clown nose, smoking a cigarette in your laundry room when they arrive.
    they may or may not see you' that is just as well.

    Self is an anti-capitalist clown manifesto created during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It can...
    a stranger arrives at your home.
    you don't invited them in.
    they gate is open, they'll find a way.
    you are undressed, in your clown nose, smoking a cigarette in your laundry room when they arrive.
    they may or may not see you' that is just as well.

    Self is an anti-capitalist clown manifesto created during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It can be performed anywhere, by anyone and is an immersive experience for one audience member at a time.
  • Everly Heart and the Dollar and a Quarter Coaster Ride
    When a hair pomade salesman gets kicked out of his no-good croonie's car in the middle of the desert, he happens upon a clown who belongs to a nearby circus. Our protagonist, Everly Heart is bound to turn this crooked circus into a real bona fide outfit with the help of his new friends Trumpet Kid, Clown, Tootsy Taylor, Ace the Headless Prophet and the Triplets.