Grifyn Thomas
Words & Music
GRIFYN THOMAS is a performer, author, pianist and composer whose works include over a dozen full-length and one-act plays, a cabaret musical, numerous novels, art songs, pop songs, kirtan, meridian music and piano improvisations.
Andrognykka! The Hello Tour!
Workshop Production | Joan Harris Theater | New Smyrna Beach, FL
AIRspace Developmental Residency | John Sims Center | San Francisco
Developmental Workshop | Z Space New Music Theater Project | San Francisco
the desire to return to the safety of Day
Full Production | Sideshow Physical Theater | Mondavi Center, Davis, CA
Warm Water
Full Production | Estrogenious Festival | Manhattan Theatre Source | New York City
Named “honorary chick” so that his gynecological fantasia could be performed in this annual festival of women’s work
HoMom
Full Production | Theater Rhinoceros | San Francisco
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The Comforts of Homley
Full production | Ensemble Stage Theater | Davie, Florida
Excerpts | Marsh | San Francisco Climate Theater | San Francisco
Lovelock
Workshop | Florida Studio Theater New Play Festival
Workshop | Florida International University (FIU) playwrights’ competition
Auto Erotik
Full Production | New World Theater’s New Play | Miami Beach, FL
Nominated for five South Florida Carbonell Awards, including Best Regional Play
The Ugliest Bride of the Month Club
Staged Reading | Florida Studio Theater | Sarasota, FL
Staged Reading | Actor's Playhouse | Miami, FL
The Attack of the Jellyfish
Semi-finalist | CBS/Dramatists Guild Competition
Souvenirs
Staged Reading | San Francisco Bay Area Playwright’s Festival
Participated in month-long invitational writing workshop led by Sam Shepard
Other full-length works include: the epic modular play Datemania (a comedy in too many scenes), Lost Empires, Hamsters in Bondage, The Constantine Variations, Sweethearts, and Deja Vous.
Thomas received a $5,000 Playwriting Fellowship from the state of Florida, and was the only artist recognized in another discipline that year, receiving an Honorable Mention in Fiction Writing.
The Map of the Enigmas Trilogy
Not your mother's trilogy, these three books share some characters and themes, and span from the late 19th to the mid-22nd centuries:
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Pouf!! the trilogy's first volume, finds a hair stylist obsessed with the towering pouf hairstyles of Marie Antoinette suddenly finds his life upended after his mother announces she was once a kitten,
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In 19851985, most everyone is gay ('mo') and the straights ('strays') are the minority. When the year 1985 begins secretly repeating and varying itself, a diverse coterie including Ethel Merman, Truman Capote (secretly straight), and Richard Burton team up with a famous coffe barista named Jonson Johnson to try and solve the mystery and kick the world into 1986.
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Map of the Enigmas, the series' final book, traces the fate of a man who is somehow cast into the body of a one-night stand, uncovering a web of intrigue that will take him across time in his quest to retrive his body. The trilogy is currently in production for release in 2026 and 2027.
Other novels include Choke, about the exploits of a transcendent private investigator in the gay demimonde of gay New York in the early 20th century, and The Nickel Saints, an apocalyptic novel wherein the apocalypse encounters a serious glitch
A lyricist and composer, Thomas is an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop in New York City, studying with Maury Yeston and Richard Enquist. Acting coaches include Tony Greco and Stephen Drewes; acting credits include productions in New York at the Manhattan Theater Club and The Theater for the New City, and in assorted regional theaters.