Grimsley, Jim
GRIMSLEY, Jim
GRIMSLEY, Jim. American, b. 1955. Genres: Novels, Plays/Screenplays. Career: Writer. Seven Stages Theatre, Atlanta, GA, playwright in residence, 1986-. ACME Theatre Co., founding member 1983-87; Celeste Miller and Company, board of directors, 1988-89, president, 1989-94; Regional Organization of Theatres-South (ROOTS), chairman 1990-91. Publications: NOVELS: Comfort and Joy, 1993; Winter Birds, 1994; Dream Boy, 1995; My Drowning, 1997; Kirith Kirin, 2000. PLAYS: The Existentialists, 1983; The Earthlings, 1984; The Receptionist in Hell, 1985; Estelle and Otto, 1985; Dead of Winter, 1986; On the Appearance of a Fire in the West, 1987; Mr. Universe, 1987; Math and Aftermath, 1988; Man with a Gun, 1989; White People, 1989; The Lizard of Tarsus, 1990; The Fall of the House of Usher (adaption), 1991; Belle Ives, 1991; Aurora Be Mine, 1992; The Borderland, 1994; The Decline and Fall of the Rest, 1996; A Bird of Prey, 1996; The Non, 1996; In Berlin, 2001. PERFORMANCE PIECES: Stop and Think, 1987; 88; Anti-Gravity, 1988; Eating the Green Monkey, 1989; Shelter, 1991; Walk through Birdland, 1992; The Masturbator, 1992; Memo to the Assassin, 1992. Contributor to periodicals. Address: c/o Peter Hagen, The Gersh Agency, Inc., 41 Madison Ave, Fl 33, New York, NY 10010-2210, U.S.A.