Rinne Groff

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Rinne Groff is a playwright and performer. She was trained at Yale University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches. She is the author of Jimmy Carter was a Democrat (produced at Clubbed Thumb and PS 122), Orange Lemon Egg Canary (Actors Theater of Louisville), Inky (Clubbed Thumb and Salt Theater), Moliere Impromptu (Trinity Rep), and co-writer with Charles Strouse of You Never Know. A founding member of Elevator Repair Service Theater Company, she has been a part of the writing, staging, and performing of their shows since the company’s inception in 1991. She is at work on a commission from The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Her play, The Ruby Sunrise, will open November 1st at the Public Theater, directed by Oskar Eustis, and What Then (produced by Clubbed Thumb) will open in January. ^[1]