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Virginia Grise was born on 27 June, 1976 in Fort Gordon, Augusta, Georgia, United States, is an American playwright and director. Discover Virginia Grise's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

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Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 27 June, 1976
Birthday 27 June
Birthplace Fort Gordon, Augusta, Georgia, United States
Nationality United States

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1976

Virginia Grise (born June 27, 1976, in Ft. Gordon, Georgia) is a playwright, and director.

1998

In 1998 Grise received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History and Spanish with a minor in Chicano Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Grise also studied critical pedagogy and second language acquisition at the University of Texas and also earned her teaching certificate to teach English and Spanish as a secondary language.

Grise has more than 15 years of teaching experience.

2003

In addition to working with Bridgforth, Grise was a member of the Austin Project produced by Omi Osun and Joni Jones from 2003 to 2006.

As a member of The Austin Project, she was introduced to experimental artists such as Erik Ehn, Robbie McCauley, Laurie Carlos, Daniel Alexander Jones and Carl Hancock Rux.

Grise has also been a guest lecturer and held writing workshops.

2009

In 2009, she received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Writing for Performance from California Institute of the Arts.

Her play blu, was developed at Cal Arts as her MFA thesis project under the mentorship of Carl Hancock Rux.

Grise at the time was living in Boyle Heights and said, "every time I saw or heard helicopters I wrote a poem."

These poems eventually transformed into the play blu, which is about a Chicano family (raised by two queer women) that tries to envision a life and sky free of police and helicopters.

Themes in blu are prison, war, state violence and desire.

While teaching in Austin, Texas, Grise coordinated a series of writing workshop at the Travis County Juvenile Detention Center and Austin High School with La Peña Cultural Arts Center and Resistencia Bookstore.

At the request of one of the students in the program, Grise read her first poem publicly at the juvenile detention center and later went on to study writing with Bridgforth.

2010

Grise's most recognized work is blu (Yale University Press), the winner of the 2010 Yale Drama Series Award and a finalist for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Latino/a Playwrighting Award.

In addition, Grise is the co-writer of The Panza Monologues (University of Texas Press) with Irma Mayorga, and edited a volume of Zapatista communiqués called Conversations with Don Durito (Atonomedia Press).

She is also a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award and the Princess Grace Award in Theater Directing.

Grise grew up in San Antonio, Texas.

Her father, Ronald Grise is from Goshen, Indiana and her mother, Emma Lesi Grise (née Yee) is from Monterrey, Mexico.

Her maternal grandfather Manuel Yee was from Canton, China.

2012

In 2012, Grise served as a Visiting Writer in the Department of English and Literature at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. She has been invited to share her works at universities including University of Southern California, Vassar College, Brown University, and Cornell University, to name a few

Grise began activism as a teenager as being part of the Brady Greene Teen Advisory Board, where she taught sexuality education classes in local high schools.

She was also a founding member of Acción Zapatista, an organization in Austin, Texas, committed to spreading history of the Zapatistas (Mexican Revolution), and other pro-Democracy movements in Mexico.

As a member of Acción Zapatista, Grise served as an international peace observer in Chiapas, Mexico and organized protests, community forums, and attended the Intercontinental Encuentro Against Neo-Liberalism.

Grise was also a writing, directing, performing and founding member of Teatro Callejero, at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas.

The street theatre created performances around important issues affecting the city of Austin such as environmental racism and gentrification.

And as a middle school teacher at Kazen Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, Grise was an organizing member of Books in Barrio, a grassroots organization that successfully launched a campaign to locate a bookstore in a predominantly Mexican and working class community on the South Side of San Antonio.

Currently, she works with prison abolitionists and community organizations that are teaching inside women's prisons.