# Rinne Groff > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rinne_Groff > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rinne_Groff.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinne_Groff > Source revision: 1351902810 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American playwright and performer}} '''Rinne Groff''' (aka Rinne Becker Groff) is an American [playwright](/source/playwright) and [performer](/source/Performing_arts). ==Biography== Groff was trained at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) and [New York University Tisch School of the Arts](/source/New_York_University_Tisch_School_of_the_Arts), where she currently teaches. A founding member of [Elevator Repair Service](/source/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.[http://www.whitingfoundation.org/whiting_2005_bios.html Bios of 2005 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients - Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716231148/http://www.whitingfoundation.org/whiting_2005_bios.html |date=2011-07-16 }} Retrieved 9-20-06 With playwright/lyricist [John Dempsey](/source/John_Dempsey_(lyricist)) and composer [Michael Friedman](/source/Michael_Friedman_(composer)), Groff co-wrote the book and lyrics for the [stage musical adaptation](/source/Saved_(musical)) of the movie ''[Saved!](/source/Saved!)''.{{cite news |title=Theater Review: Saved |first=Alexis |last=Greene |newspaper=[The Hollywood Reporter](/source/The_Hollywood_Reporter) |date=June 3, 2008 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/theater/reviews/article_display.jsp?rid=11221 |access-date=January 28, 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} Her play ''Compulsion'' opened [Off-Broadway](/source/Off-Broadway) at [The Public Theater](/source/The_Public_Theater) on February 1, 2011, starring [Mandy Patinkin](/source/Mandy_Patinkin) and directed by [Oskar Eustis](/source/Oskar_Eustis). The play had previously played at [Yale Repertory Theatre](/source/Yale_Repertory_Theatre) and [Berkeley Repertory Theatre](/source/Berkeley_Repertory_Theatre), both in 2010.Hetrick, Adam.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/147179-Anne-Frank-Haunts-Mandy-Patinkin-in-Compulsion-Starting-Feb-1-at-the-Public-Theater "Anne Frank Haunts Mandy Patinkin in Compulsion, Starting Feb. 1 at the Public Theater"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019215152/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/147179-Anne-Frank-Haunts-Mandy-Patinkin-in-Compulsion-Starting-Feb-1-at-the-Public-Theater |date=2012-10-19 }} playbill.com, February 1, 2011 Alongside composer [Frank Wildhorn](/source/Frank_Wildhorn) and lyricists Tracy Miller and [Carly Robyn Green](/source/Carly_Robyn_Green), Groff wrote an English language book for the stage musical ''[Your Lie in April](/source/Your_Lie_in_April_(musical))'', based on its original Japanese [manga](/source/manga) book by Riko Sakaguchi. The musical is an adaptation of [Naoshi Arakawa](/source/Naoshi_Arakawa)'s Kodansha manga [Your Lie in April](/source/Your_Lie_in_April). In November 2023, an English language concert staging of ''Your Lie in April (musical)'' was announced to debut at [Theatre Royal, Drury Lane](/source/Theatre_Royal%2C_Drury_Lane) on the West End in April 2024, directed by [Nick Winston](/source/Nick_Winston).{{cite web |url=https://playbill.com/article/frank-wildhorn-your-lie-in-april-musical-will-receive-west-end-concert-staging|title=Frank Wildhorn Your Lie in April Musical Will Receive West End Concert Staging|author= Margaret Hall|date=November 29, 2023 |website=Playbill |access-date=December 8, 2023}} It opened at the [Harold Pinter Theatre](/source/Harold_Pinter_Theatre) in July 2024. {{cite web | last1=Akbar | first1=Arifa | title=Your Lie in April review – high-school musical mixes manga aesthetics with Broadway sound | work=The Guardian | date=7 July 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jul/07/your-lie-in-april-review-musical-manga-broadway-harold-pinter }} ==Awards== *Recipient of a 2006 [Guggenheim Award](/source/Guggenheim_Fellowship)[https://archive.today/20130414213425/http://www.gf.org/fellows/5871-rinne-groff John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: Rinne Groff ] *Recipient of a 2005 [Whiting Award](/source/Whiting_Awards) for drama *Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2002-03 for her play ''Orange Lemon Egg Canary'' *Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony in 2005. ==Works== * ''Inky'' ([Clubbed Thumb](/source/Clubbed_Thumb) and Salt Theater, 2000) *''The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem'' ([Target Margin Theater](/source/Target_Margin_Theater), 2000) * ''Jimmy Carter was a Democrat'' (produced at [Clubbed Thumb](/source/Clubbed_Thumb) and [P.S. 122](/source/P.S._122), 2002){{cite journal|last=Bon|first=Deron|title=In Dialogue: Framing Rinne Groff|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=April 2005|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2005/04/theater/in-dialogue-framing-rinne-groff}} * ''Orange Lemon Egg Canary'' ([Actors Theater of Louisville](/source/Actors_Theater_of_Louisville), 2003) * ''You Never Know'' (co-writer with [Charles Strouse](/source/Charles_Strouse)) ([Trinity Rep](/source/Trinity_Repertory_Company), 2005) * ''Molière Impromptu'' (Trinity Rep, 2005) * ''The Ruby Sunrise'' ([Public Theater](/source/Public_Theater), November 2005, directed by [Oskar Eustis](/source/Oskar_Eustis)) * ''What Then'' ([Clubbed Thumb](/source/Clubbed_Thumb), 2006) * ''Compulsion'' (2010, [Yale Repertory Theatre](/source/Yale_Repertory_Theatre), 2010){{cite web|url= http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/art-news/2010/02/02/compulsion-presents-new-side-anne-frank-story/|title= 'Compulsion' presents a new side of the Anne Frank story|author= Shim, Eileen|date= February 2, 2010|work= Yale Daily News|access-date= June 21, 2010|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100609124953/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/art-news/2010/02/02/compulsion-presents-new-side-anne-frank-story/|archive-date= June 9, 2010}} * ''Sleep Rock Thy Brain'' along with Lucas Hnath and Anne Washburn ([Actors Theater of Louisville](/source/Actors_Theater_of_Louisville), 2013) * ''77%'' ([San Francisco Playhouse](/source/San_Francisco_Playhouse), 2014) * ''Fire in Dreamland'' (Public Theater, 2018){{cite news |last=Holdren |first=Sara |url= http://www.vulture.com/2018/07/theater-fire-in-dreamlands-jump-cuts-and-near-auteurs.html |title=Theater Review: Jump Cuts and Auteur Wannabes, in ''Fire in Dreamland'' |work=[New York](/source/New_York_(magazine)) |date=July 16, 2018 |access-date=July 17, 2018}} * ''[Your Lie in April (musical)](/source/Your_Lie_in_April_(musical))'' - The Concert ([Theatre Royal Drury Lane](/source/Theatre_Royal%2C_Drury_Lane), 2024){{cite web |url=https://playbill.com/article/frank-wildhorn-your-lie-in-april-musical-will-receive-west-end-concert-staging|title=Frank Wildhorn Your Lie in April Musical Will Receive West End Concert Staging|author= Margaret Hall|date=November 29, 2023 |website=Playbill |access-date=December 8, 2023}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/rinne-groff#/ Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation] * [http://www.playscripts.com/author.php3?authorid=186 Rinne Groff bio and play listing] on Playscripts, Inc. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Groff, Rinne}} Category:American dramatists and playwrights Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Yale University alumni Category:New York University Tisch School of the Arts alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rinne Groff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinne_Groff) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinne_Groff?action=history)). 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