Gilbert Girion

Gilbert Girion is primarily a playwright, though he has also written for film and has had short fiction published. His plays include Bridge Over Land , Faith's Body , Floating With Jane , Broken English , Bad Country , Word Crimes , (Drama-Logue Award) The Last Word , Fizzle , Murder In Santa Cruz and Songs And Dances From Imaginary Lands (co-written). His plays Juice , Glue , and Palm 90 (co-written) were produced at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where he served as Playwright-In-Residence. He...See more

Gilbert Girion is primarily a playwright, though he has also written for film and has had short fiction published. His plays include Bridge Over Land , Faith's Body , Floating With Jane , Broken English , Bad Country , Word Crimes , (Drama-Logue Award) The Last Word , Fizzle , Murder In Santa Cruz and Songs And Dances From Imaginary Lands (co-written). His plays Juice , Glue , and Palm 90 (co-written) were produced at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where he served as Playwright-In-Residence. He has been commissioned to write plays by Overtones Theatre, New Writers, Playwright's Horizons and New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF). Nominated by NYSF, he was the recipient of a Drama League Grant. He was also given a grant from Anna Sosenko Assist Trust. He wrote American Blue Note , a film directed by Ralph Toporoff and Let Go , a short film shown at Hampton's Film Festival. He worked with Joseph Chaikin and Bill Hart at Atlantic Center For The Arts where they developed Bodies , a piece about disability. His short stories have been published in Word , Noir Mechanics , Urban Desires and Saturday Review . Currently, he teaches screenwriting at the School Of Visual Arts in New York City. He is the author of SOUND OF A TRAIN (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2013). See less