Ahoy, you scurvy lot!
We’re full speed ahead toward Opening Night of the World Premiere of Strange Cargo: The Doom of the Demeter at City Lit Theatre, this Saturday, 10/18/2025! In spreading the word, I got a chance to chat with Dean Richards at Chicago’s WGN Radio on Sunday 10/12! You can hear the interview RIGHT HERE (starting at 1:01 and running to 1:09). Dig it! And get your tix fast – presales are hopping!
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Ahoy, you lot!
It is with great joy and excitement that I direct you to the official cast announcement of the World Premiere of STRANGE CARGO: The Doom of the Demeter, playing this fall at City Lit Theatre!
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Hey you lot! I can now officially announce that my new play, STRANGE CARGO: The Doom of the Demeter will World Premiere this fall as part of City Lit Theater’s 45th Season in Chicago, Illinois!
Based on Chapter Seven of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this gothic horror high seas adventure tells the shocking events aboard the cargo ship transporting Count Dracula’s belongings from Transylvania to England. Suspicion, paranoia, and madness infect the crew as the harried sailors disappear one by one. Full of creeping mystery, vibrant language, rich characters, sinister vanishings, violent sea storms, swashbuckling action, monstrous puppetry, and, of course, a boatload of terrors, this is the Dracula tale you’ve never seen.
Here’s the link to the lit to the City Lit page: https://www.citylit.org/ A co-production with Black Button Eyes Productions, the play will be directed by the amazing Ed Rutherford and Sound Designed by my criminally talented brother Joe Griffin! Watch this space for ticket info!
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Hey gang – It thrills me to tell you that as part of their Junior Play Festival, Chagrin Falls Academy for the Performing Arts (Chagrin Falls, OH) will be performing my short play – Once Upon a Time… In Denmark! Performances are March 11th & 12th. Anyone in Ohio – go check it out!
Get tix here: https://www.chagrinacademy.org/
Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 PM, at City Lit Theatre, 1020 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago, IL.
Twenty-three years before the events of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Yorick, a brilliant young jester, infiltrates Elsinore on a quest for revenge against Denmark’s Lord Chamberlain (and deadly spymaster), Polonius. Full of comedy, sword fights, romance, juggling, heartache, horror, and an array of Shakespearean touchstones turned slightly askew, this love letter to the Bard is akin to such Shakespeare-adjacent plays as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and The Book of Will.
ONE NIGHT ONLY! FREE ADMISSION!
FEATURING
Courtney Abbott Caty Gordon
Douglas Bryan Bean Timothy Griffin
Ross Compton Jamie Redwood
Shelley DeHosse Troy Schaeflein
Michael Dias Chad Wise
AND
Dan Hitzemann
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Get your tickets ASAP here: YORICK
Update 02/03/2020: you can hear the performance of “Subject #9” here.
My play, “Subject #9,” has been chosen for this year’s Deathscribe plays festival.
Directed by Elizabeth Lovelady and featuring Moira Begale, Elisabeth Del Toro, Dave Skvarla, and Joseff Stevenson, it’s in contention for the Bloody Axe award. I’m thrilled to be part of this annual Chicago theatre tradition once again.
My short play, “Imaginary Fiend,” is an official selection of the 2017 HEAR Now Audio Fiction and Arts Festival in Kansas City, MO. The recording of the piece is from a live performance at Wildclaw Theatre‘s 2015 Deathscribe* short plays festival and was directed by Elly Green.
Thanks to Wildclaw and the HEAR Now Festival!
* Writers: the submission window for Deathscribe 2017 is open until July 31!
This past weekend I attended a production of my full-length horror/comic play “Deadworry” at East Alton-Wood River Community High School near St. Louis. Congrats and many thanks to the cast and crew!
I recently played the title role in Shakespeare’s Richard III at Oakton Community College. I also choreographed the fights for the show. I’ve posted new photos from the production in the Theatre Gallery, and a video of the final Richard v. Richmond fight is up on vimeo.
Richard III, Oakton Community College
The video “Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Degas” –in which I play Edgar Degas– has won the American Library Association’s Notable Children’s Video award.
You can watch a clip of “Degas” here.
Congratulations to everyone at Getting To Know!
Edgar Degas, voiced by Tim Griffin
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