Virginia Grise

Playwright, and director. Curator, artist, and activist. Professor and public school teacher.
Woman smiling at the camera
Pronouns:
she, her, hers

Virginia Grise received a Haury Visiting Associateship Award in January 2017. Grise, the recipient of a Yale Drama Prize, is a fast-rising Chicana playwright with impact nationally and abroad. She aims to increase the diversity of voices in discussions of environmental issues and planning. She collaborated with The University of Arizona English Department and Borderlands Theater to workshop the script of Their Dogs Came With Them (an adaptation of Helena Maria Viramontes' novel) with community members whose experiences inform the lives of the play’s characters, incorporating their feedback into the play. The novel focuses on the effects of destructive urban planning in Los Angeles in the 1960s upon a Mexican-American community. Grise documented this new process that engages the community and creates opportunities to share stories. Her work resonates with urbanization patterns in Tucson and across the Southwest.

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