Diana Grisanti
Diana Grisanti
Assistant Professor of Playwriting

Phone:765-285-8798

Room:NQ 223


Diana Grisanti (she, her, hers)

Diana Grisanti is a playwright and educator whose work has been produced across the country. Her plays include Vanessa in Bed (Audible Theater); Untimely Ripp’d and Enter Ghost. (co-written with Steve Moulds, for Kentucky Shakespeare); Lawbreakers! (a fast and furious history of women’s suffrage) (StageOne Family Theatre); The Patron Saint of Losing Sleep (Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte); River City (National New Play Network); …Ghost Party (Cleveland Play House); Bowling for Beginners (Vanderbilt University); and the bilingual musicals Coyote and the Counting Game, The City Dog and the Prairie Dog, Casa Alfonsa, and The Guava Tree / El Guayabo (co-written with composer Emiliano Messiez, for Creede Repertory Theatre). Diana has been a Michener Fellow, a Kentucky Arts Council Fellow, and a Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa. Her creative and scholarly interests include playwriting, devising, theatre for young audiences, global education, and ghosts.

Find out more at dianagrisanti.com.


Course Schedule
Course No. Term Level Hours Location
New Works Seminar [syllabus] THEA 161.1 Spring 2026 Undergraduate 3.0 Lecture/Lab
New Works Laboratory 1 [syllabus] THEA 261.1 Spring 2026 Undergraduate 3.0 Laboratory
Playwriting 1 [syllabus] THEA 340.1 Spring 2026 Undergraduate 3.0 Studio
Theatre Creation Capstone [syllabus] THEA 434.7 Spring 2026 Undergraduate 3.0 Experiential