Tom Griffin's Bio

Tom Griffin s plays include THE BOYS NEXT DOOR, AMATEURS, THE TAKING AWAY OF LITTLE WILLIE, MRS. SEDGEWICK S HEAD, PASTA, WILL THE GENTLEMEN IN CABIN SIX PLEASE RISE TO THE OCCASION, WORKERS, and EINSTEIN AND THE POLAR BEAR. His work has been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, on London s West End, in scores of regional theatres, and in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. THE BOYS NEXT DOOR has been seen in over 3500 productions in the United States and Canada, and has had openings in Paris, Tokyo, Oslo, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Sydney, Johannesburg, et al. His work has been premiered at The Mark Taper Forum in L.A., The McCarter Theatre at Princeton, Trinity Rep, The Long Wharf in New Haven, The Alley Theatre in Houston, and The Hartford Stage Company. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a CBS/Dramatists Guild Award, a McCarter Commission, a Playboy editorial award, an Edinburgh Fringe First, and an O Neill fellowship. His short fiction has been published here and in Europe, and he has written sixteen screenplays. From 1974 to 1987, he was a member of the Tony Award-winning resident acting company at Trinity Rep in Providence, Rhode Island. He still lives in Rhode Island with his wife and son and one extremely disturbed cat.

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