Upcoming Events
2018
Their Dogs Came With Them Workshop, Perryville Women's Prison, Goodyear, AZ
Oct.-Nov. 2018
Mexico 68 Workshop, Mexico City, MX
June-July 2018
The Austin Project 2.0, Austin, TX
May 2, 2018
This is a Manifesto! Workshop, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
April 25, 2018
WE ARE Opening Reception, AAA3A, South Bronx, NY
April 8, 2018
National Association for Chicano Chicana Studies, Minneapolis, MN
April 7, 2018 Panelist, Because No Space is Safe Space: On Prison Rebellions, Mexican Magic, and Manifestos Written in the Subjunctive
Association of Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA
March 30, 2018 Panelist, Chinese Mexican Memory Work
This is a Manifesto! Workshop, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
March 27, 2018
rasgos asiaticos Open Studio, Soho Rep, New York, NY
March 19-25, 2018
Your Healing is Killing Me Mini Book Tour
March 5, 2018, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
March 11, 2018, Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson, AZ
Shakespeare Workshop, Perryville Women's Prison, Goodyear, AZ
March 6-8, 2018
Alls Well that Ends Well, Detour Festival, Dallas, TX
March 1-4, 2018
Your Healing is Killing Me Performance Lecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Feb. 22, 2018
Guest Lecture, Radical Women Playwrights, New School, New York, NY
Feb. 21, 2018
Aperture Panel, Narratives from the Inside, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
Feb. 7, 2018
Artist Residency, This is a Manifesto!, Jump Start Theatre, San Antonio, TX
Jan. 22-29, 2018
Mexico 68 Workshop, Mexico City, MX
Jan 2-6, 2018
2017
National Performance Network Conference, San Francisco, CA
Dec. 14-18, 2017
Your Healing is Killing Me, Tardeada, AAA3A, Bronx, NY
Dec. 10, 2017 at 2pm
Artist Residency, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Nov. 6-21, 2017
OSF Play On! Workshop at Boston Court. Pasadena, CA
Nov. 1-3, 2017
Your Healing Is Killing Me, Southern, CA Tour
Nov. 4 Reading by Moonrise in L.A. at 5:30pm
Nov. 8 Reading at UCSantaBarbara
Nov. 13 Reading w/ PoetrIE in San Bernadino at 6pm
Nov. 14 Reading w/ LibroMobile in Santa Ana at 7pm
Nov. 15 Reading at UCRiverside
Your Healing Is Killing Me, Texas Tour
San Antonio:
Oct 10 Workshop at Texas A&M University, 3:30-5:30pm, Auditorium
Oct 11 Book Reading and Signing at UT San Antonio, 6pm, HEB Travis Rm. 2.202
Oct 12 Book Reading and Signing at Trinity University, 5:30pm, Holt Center, 106 Oak Mont Court
Oct 20 Book Reading and Signing, 8pm, Private Party Jane Madrigal's House
Austin:
Oct 14 Book Reading and Signing w/ Salvage Vanguard, 7pm Grey Duck Gallery
Oct 15 Book Reading and Signing at Resistencia Bookstore, 5pm, 4926 East Cesar Chavez St.
Oct 17 Class Visit St. Edwards University, 11am, Moody Hall Oct 20
Book Reading and Signing at St. Edwards University, 1-3pm, Jones Auditorium
Rio Grande Valley:
Oct 17 Book Reading and Signing, 7pm, Private Party Victor Santo's House, 7pm
Oct 18 Book Reading and Signing at UTRGV, 7pm, Jeffers Theater
Book Launch, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
Oct. 5-7 at 8pm
OSF Play On Convening, Ashland Oregon
Sept. 14-18th
Black Swan Lab, Ashland Oregon
Sept. 17th, Reading of Their Dogs Came With Them
Mexico Research & Writing Residency, Cuernavaca & Mexico City, MX
July-August
Summer Dreaming en el Parque, St. James Park 2530 Jerome Ave., Bronx, NY
Sunday June 18th 1-4pm. Tendremos una variedad de actividades gratuitas para toda la familia: Free Printmaking ◎ Aprenda a imprimir con nosotros ◎ Free Piñata Making ◎ Creación de piñata ◎ Free Games ◎ Juegos ◎ Free Books ◎ Libros ◎ Lecturas al aire libre ◎ Free Yoga to celebrate Summer in the Bronx! ¡Celebremos el verano juntos en el Bronx! 1-3:30 Printmaking with visual artist Blanka Amezkua; 1-3:30 Marbles with Mari Infante and Diana Perez Ramirez; 1-1:30 Family Yoga with Lisa Harris Reading of Maya Christina Gonzalez's Call Me Tree/Llámame árbol by Manny Rivera and Fernanda Garcia; 1:30-3 Writing Workshop with Virginia Grise; 2-3:30 Piñata Making with Rene Valdez 3-3:30; Family Yoga with Lisa Harris Reading of Maya Christina Gonzalez's Call Me Tree/Llámame árbol by Manny Rivera and Fernanda Garcia; 3:30 Piñata
State Goods: Curator Talk & Performance, Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY
June 2nd 7-9pm
Join us for an evening in the gallery to discuss the current exhibit, State Goods: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration with co-curator Nicole R. Fleetwood. Following the talk will be performances by playwright Virginia Grise and actor/ spoken-word artist David Roberts.
Todo esto es un sueño: 24hrs with Juan Rulfo, AAA3A, Bronx, NY
Birthday Celebration May 27th 4pm-May 28th 4pm at AAA3A (309 Alexander Avenue Apt. 3) A 24 hour celebration of Juan Rulfo with art, performance, and food.
Artist Talk with Blanka Amezkua, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, Bronx, NY
May 17, 6-7pm, 928 Simpson St. 6th Floor
Workshop of All's Well That Ends Well, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New York, NY
May 3rd, 12-6pm
Their Dogs Came With Them Artist Residency, Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
April 8-22, 2017
What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing, Yale University, New Haven, CT
March 9, 2017 from 4:30-6:15 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center
On a panel with David Hare, Arthur Kopit, Donald Margulies, Marsha Norman, Jeffrey Sweet, Neil Wechsler. The conversation will be moderated by Yale Press director John Donatich.
DJ Latinidad's Latino Dance Party Directed by Mark Valdez, MACLA, San Jose, CA
Feb. 17-18 8:30pm & Feb 19 at 2pm Directed by Mark Valdez. Playwrights, choreographers, DJs, composers, novelists, and comedians – Dominican, Cuban, Mexican, Chilean, Colombian, Chicano, Nuyorican, and Sotarican – have been commissioned to create pieces that will be sculpted by director and dramaturg Mark Valdez into a theatrical extravaganza collage that reveals a contemporary snapshot of Latinidad. Comprised of commissioned works by Kristoffer Diaz, Michael John Garces, Virginia Grise, Maria Isa, Sean San Jose, and Octavio Solis.
2016
Their Dogs Came With Them Workshop, Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
Dec. 9-11, 2016
One Minute Play Festival at Intar Theater, NY
Dec. 3 at 9pm, Dec. 4, 2016 5:30pm
Writing for Impossibility, Latino Theater Commons Regional Convening, NY
Dec. 2, 2016 at 10am
Tomorrow is Now! Writing Workshop, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
Nov. 6-28, 2016
Inviting all artists and/or cultural workers, soulsisters and homeboys, those trans to gender and/or genre who want to explore artistic practices rooted in the politics of creating a better world. This Writing for Performance Lab is facilitated by Virginia Grise and is based in convivial methods for radical dreaming and creative political intervention with a particular focus on artistic process, improvisation, and aesthetics. The workshop series will feature guest workshops by cultural workers and artistic innovators including Felipe Teixeira Gonçalves and Kristiana Rae Colón. From quilombos (fugitive settlements in Brazil) to the Freedom Square occupation of urban street corners in the United States of America, join other artists who are actively creating spaces where we can collectively breathe, dream, and imagine a new world into existence.
CalArts Artist in Residence Workshop, Valencia, CA
Oct. 13-24, 2016
Djerassi Writing Residency, Woodside, CA
Sept. 14-Oct. 12, 2016
She She She at the New Ohio Theater Ice Factory Festival, NYC
July 20-23, 2016
Conceived by Carrie Heitman and created by writer Virginia Grise, director Elena Araoz, visual artist Susan Zeeman Rogers and the performing ensemble of Hook & Eye. Buy tickets here: http://newohiotheatre.org/icefactory2016.htm
Little Theater, at Dixon Place, New York
July 11, 2016 at 7:30pm
Curated by Casey Llewellyn as part of the HOT! Festival at Dixon Place. Included performances by Nia Witherspoon, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Cecilia Gentili, and Princess Carter.
Writing Residency, Athens, Greece
June 2016
Mestiza Power! by Conchi Leon Mora, translated by Virginia Grise, NYC
PEN World Voices Festival, Dixon Place, April 29, 2016 at 7pm
Hedgebrook Writing Residency, Whidbey Island, WA
April 28-May 17, 2016
Reading at Seattle Rep May 16, 2016
Reading at Hedgebrook May 15, 2016
DJ Latinidad's Latino Dance Party, at Mixed Blood Theater, Minneapolis, MN
March 4-27, Directed by Mark Valdez. Playwrights, choreographers, DJs, composers, novelists, and comedians – Dominican, Cuban, Mexican, Chilean, Colombian, Chicano, Nuyorican, and Sotarican – have been commissioned to create pieces that will be sculpted by director and dramaturg Mark Valdez into a theatrical extravaganza collage that reveals a contemporary snapshot of Latinidad. Mixed Blood’s reconfigurable space will be gutted to open its doors to a curated event that is more dance party than play. Comprised of commissioned works by Junot Diaz, Kristoffer Diaz, Michael John Garces, Virginia Grise, Maria Isa, Melinda Lopez, Marcela Lorca, Joe Minjares, Kyoung Park, Sean San Jose, Tanya Saracho, and Octavio Solis.
Rivera-Servera & Martinez Writing Residency, Chicago, IL
March 11-18, 2016
Barrio Stories, Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
March 3-6, for more info: http://www.barriostories.org
Led by Borderlands Theater's Producing Director, Marc David Pinate, the Barrio Stories Project will utilize cross-sector partnerships to collect oral histories from the residents of Tucson’s historic barrios. These narratives will be theatricalized and performed in sight-specific locations. The first iteration of the initiative will focus on Barrio Libre, Tucson’s original Mexican-American enclave that was demolished with the construction of the Tucson Convention Center. In collaboration with Elaine Romero, Martin Zimmerman, Milta Ortiz, and Lydia Otero.
Your Healing is Killing Me, directed by Emily Mendelsohn, at MECA, Houston Texas
March 4 at 8pm & March 5 at 7pm, 1900 Kane St., Houston, TX
This performance manifesto seeks to replace individual self-care with collective self-defense. This is one artist’s reflection on living with post-traumatic stress disorder, near-blindness, ansia, testosterone and eczema in the new age of trigger warnings, the master cleanse, and kickstarter funded self-care. Based on lessons learned in San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools; from the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, community health workers, and bourgie dermatologists. Part performance, part lecture, part therapy (cuz her insurance doesn't cover it) this talk is unprocessed and gluten and guilt free. Because Capitalism is toxic and The Revolution is not in your body butter.
2015
When the Concrete Breaks: A Reading with Helena Maria Viramontes, Casa Azul Bookstore, NY
Dec. 5, 7-9pm
One Minute Play Festival, at Intar Theater, NY
Dec 4-6, 7pm
Writing Workshop Series, at JACK, Brooklyn, NY
Oct. 4-Nov. 29, 2015 This Writing for Performance Lab is facilitated by Virginia Grise and Kyla Searle and is informed by the basic principles of the jazz aesthetic with a particular focus on creative process and artistic risk taking. The workshop series will feature guest workshops by theatrical jazz artists and innovators including Sharon Bridgforth, Erik Ehn, Daniel Alexander Jones, Omi Osun Joni Jones, Carl Hancock Rux, and Ni’Ja Whitson.
An Artist's Statement, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
Nov. 11-12, 2015
Barrio Stories, Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
Nov. 7-8, New Play Workshop
Led by Borderlands Theater's Producing Director, Marc David Pinate, the Barrio Stories Project will utilize cross-sector partnerships to collect oral histories from the residents of Tucson’s historic barrios. These narratives will be theatricalized and performed in sight-specific locations. The first iteration of the initiative will focus on Barrio Libre, Tucson’s original Mexican-American enclave that was demolished with the construction of the Tucson Convention Center. In collaboration with Elaine Romero, Martin Zimmerman, Milta Ortiz, and Lydia Otero.
Luminaria, San Antonio, TX
Oct. 23-24, A collaboration between Rafa Esparza, Virginia Grise, and Joe Jiménez commissioned for Luminaria San Antonio, flesh and bone, and from the Earth’s body: how do you pull your own sadness up from the ground? is an intimate site specific performance ritual inspired by Jiménez’s The Presence of Absence and Kites.
blu at Cara Mia Theater, Dallas, TX
Oct. 3-18, 2015
Sun Ra-Opera and Celebration, BAM Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
Sept. 26, 9pm, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave.
Concept by Fred Ho; Music by Fred Ho, with Marie Incontrera; Libretto by Quincy Troupe; Directed by Virginia Grise; Conducted by Marie Incontrera.
The dynamic jazz ensemble Eco-Music Big Band presents the world premiere of scenes from Mr. Mystery: The Return of Sun Ra to Save Planet Earth!, a free-jazz opera by the late activist composer (and Eco-Music Big Band founder) Fred Ho. In this freewheeling odyssey, visionary jazz musician Sun Ra is summoned back to life to save the world from impending destruction brought on by war, global warming, and economic decline.
PEN Mingle, Casa Azul Bookstore, Spanish Harlem, NY
Sept. 23, 6:30-8:30pm
Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Sept. 20, 3pm, Mainstage (Columbus Park)
Whiting Foundation presents Writing for a Live Audience. Tony Award-winner Lisa Kron (Fun Home) talks to Whiting Award-Winning Playwrights Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns), Lucas Hnath (The Christians) and Virginia Grise (blu) about making characters come alive on stage via the page.
Directing and Ensemble Creation Institute Professinal Peer Exchange, Minneapolis, MN
August 12-18, 2015
Carnaval of New Latino Plays, Chicago, IL
July 23-25, Latino Theatre Commons, De Paul University
For more info: http://howlround.com/announcing-the-2015-ltc-carnaval-of-new-latinao-work
Big Tex Short Play Festival
Let it BURN, Kraine Theater, 85 E 4th Street, New York, NY, May 24, 7:30pm
Latino/a Utopias, John Jay College, New York, NY
Theater of the Rowdy: Queer Cantinera Performance and Philosophy, April 25, 2:40-3:55
Part of Identification, Disidentification and other Syntheses in New Latino/a Writing.
Southern California Mini-Tour
Graduate Student Luncheon, UCSB South Hall 1613, April 15th, 12noon
Theatre of the Rowdy Performance Talk, UCSB Studio Theater, April 15th, 6pm
Guest Lecture, Carlos Morton's Theater Class, April 16, 12-1:50pm
Kitchen Table Conversation: A Performance Experiment in Radical Dialogue, CalArts, April 16, 5pm
Panza Monologue Book Reading & Signing, Casa de la Raza, 601 East Montecito Street, April 17, 6pm
Your Healing is Killing Me, April 20, UCRiverside INTS 1113, 3-4:30pm
Guest Lecture, Tiffany Lopez's Theater Class, April 21, 12-2pm
Local Author Night, Casa Azul Bookstore, New York, NY
Reading of The Panza Monologues, March 27, 143 East 103rd St., New York, NY, 10029
Tucson Book Festival, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Writing for Performance Workshop, March 14, 2:30-3:30pm, Intergrated Learning Center, Rm 151
Reading of The Panza Monologues, March 15, 1-2pm, Pima County Public Library
Barrio Stories Project, Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
March 1-2, New Play Workshop
blu directed by Marc Pinate, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Feb. 26-March 1, Harold Dixon Directing Studio
Workshop of Making Myth, Alliance Theater, Atlanta, GA
Feb. 18, 2pm, Black Box Theater
Mini-Residency in Austin, Texas
Feb. 6, Conversation with Prof. Brian Herrera, 2-3:30pm, UT Austin, Winship Bldg. 2.2112
Feb. 7, Writing for Performance Workshop, 1-4pm, MACC @ 600 River St.
Feb. 8, Book Signing & Reading of The Panza Monologues, 5pm, Resistencia Bookstore, 4926 East Cesar Chavez St.
The Panza Monologues produced by Teatro Vivo, Austin, TX
Feb 5 -March 22, Thurs.-Sat. 8pm & Sun. 2pm, MACC @ 600 River St.
2014
The Lark's Mexico-U.S. Playwright Exchange Program, NYC
December 6-12
Reading at Cave Canem
December 3, 6-8:30, 20 Jay Street
Author as Bookseller Event, Casa Azul Bookstore, El Barrio, NY
November 29th, 4:30-6pm
Grise will sell books at Casa Azul Bookstore during Small Business Saturday. Come see what books she recommends for the holidays.
The Foundry Theatre's Free Range Thanksgiving Performance Feast, NYC
November 25th, Details Forthcoming
Intar Theatre's 1 Minute Play Festival, NYC
November 22nd & 23rd, 7pm
Las Marthas Film Screening, Bronx, NY
November 22nd, 7pm, Bronx Documentary Center
Grise will moderate a talkback with Cristina Ibarra, director of Las Marthas.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Nov. 21, Writing Workshop & Theatre of The Rowdy Performance Talk
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Nov. 17, Theatre of The Rowdy Performance Talk
Nov. 18, Guest Lecturer in Cristina Serna's Women's Studies Class
SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
Nov. 17, 6:30 PM, Staged Reading of The Panza Monologues, part of The Identity Series
The Panza Monologues Staged Reading, Riverside, CA
Nov. 13, 7pm, UCR ARTSblock.
Fordham University, NYC
Nov. 11, 11:30, Guest Lecturer in Daniel Alexander Jones' Theatre Class
Yoni Residency, New York, NY
Nov. 9-15
The Right to Remain Reading and Closing Reception: A Scientific Soul Session
Oct. 19, 3pm at the Local Project, 11-27 44th Rd,, Long Island City, NY, 11101
Grise directs a reading about resisting community displacement in NYC, part of The Right to Remain Exhibit curated by Diana Perez Ramirez.
Dat Black Mermaid Man Lady by Sharon Bridgforth, New Dramatists, NYC
Reading, directed by Grise, featuring Daniel Alexander Jones and Kelly Sloan
Oct. 12th, 12noon
Panza Monologues Book Release Party, Casa Azul Bookstore, NY
Sept. 13th, 2-4pm
South Texas Panza Monologues Tour
August 24th Private Party at Anel Flores' Home, 2-4pm
August 25th Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts, 1-3pm
August 25th Paragraphs Bookstore, 5pm
August 26th Private Party at Victor Santos' Home, 6pm
August 27th Performance at UT-PanAm, 6pm
August 28th Workshop at UT-PanAm, 1pm
YONI Residency, Berkshires, MA
June 29-July 6
Theatre of the Rowdy Performance Talk at Cal State Fullerton
April 29, 4pm HUM 322
BLT Salon Reading, Brooklyn, NY
April 26, 7pm curated by R. Erica Doyle & Melody Nixon
Residency at Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
March 26, From Panzas to Prisons Talk at ASU
March 26, Performance at the Herberger Theatre
March 29, Reading at Perryville Women's Prison
Reading at the Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN
March 22nd, 8pm, with Florinda Bryant, Emmanuel Ortiz, Nimo Farah and DJ Nak
Women's History Month Reading at UTSA, San Antonio, TX
March 17, 12noon, Center Bexar Room 1.102
American Literature Symposium's The Latino/a Literary Landscape, San Antonio, TX
March 7, 9am, Panel Presentation
World Premiere of The Architecture of Becoming, NYC
February 28-March 23rd New York City Center, Stage II
Workshop Production of Making Myth, New Georges, NYC
The Room Feb. 16-18th, 7pm
2013
Visting Artist at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Performance of Body, A Body of Performance Wednesday, October 23, 4:30-6pm GS258 Reading of rasgos asiaticos October 24, 7pm Shwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Reading of Mestiza Power ! by Concepcion Leon Mora, translated by Virginia Grise, Chicago, IL
Goodman Theatre, Saturday, July 13th at 6 p.m.
Summer Wave Workshop Writing and Dance Theatre Workshop, Los Angeles, CA
Loyola Marymount University, May 31-June 3
corn does not grow in the museum Brooklyn, NY
Performed by Toussaint Jeanlouis, part of the Spring Cycle Highly Impractical Theatre/Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY) May 4, 7-9pm