Diana Grisanti

Diana Grisanti is a playwright and educator whose work has been produced across the country. Her plays include Vanessa in Bed (Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund); Enter Ghost. an immersive haunted HAMLET experience (co-written with Steve Moulds, for Kentucky Shakespeare); Bowling for Beginners (Vanderbilt University); The Patron Saint of Losing Sleep (Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte); River City (National New Play Network); The Starkweather-South High School Physics Club First Annual End-of-Year Lock-In, or Ghost Party (Cleveland Play House); and the musicals Casa Alfonsa and El Guayabo/The Guava Tree (co-written with composer Emiliano Messiez, for Creede Repertory Theatre). Diana has been a Michener Fellow, a Kentucky Arts Council Fellow, and a Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University. She teaches dramatic writing at Ball State University.