About

About

Photo by Stephen Bron

Photo by Stephen Bron

 
 

DEVON WADE GRANMO (he/him/his) is a writer, performer, and theater artist who hails from the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest and now lives and works in Brooklyn. His plays include The Pyramid Builder, Shangri-LA, The Duchess of Malibu, The Way Out, The Harriad, and Dirty Water, and have been workshopped and developed at Action/Adventure Theatre, The Fertile Ground Festival, Sand & Glass Productions, Vital Joint/Title:Point, and The Brick. 

He received his BA in Theatre from Reed College in 2006, and from 2007-2015 was a Co-Artistic Director and producing company member of Action/Adventure Theatre, a theater collective which he co-founded. In addition to plays of which he has been the sole writer, he has co-written and created plays in various collaborative, ensemble and devised settings, including  the serialized plays Fall of the House, Captured by Aliens!, Fall of the Band, Robinson Crusoe, Do The D.A.N.C.E., and Sidekicks!, all with Action/Adventure Theatre, and the devised plays Tomorrow!, Something Epic/Everyday and Bike Play with The Working Theatre Collective. He has appeared as a performer with Action/Adventure Theatre, The Working Theatre Collective, Sand & Glass, Toad City Productions, defunkt theatre, Post5 Theatre, and Title:Point.

In addition to plays, he makes performances, songs, photographs, and drawings. He is profoundly interested in the intersections of the Queer experience, autonomous zones, DIY aesthetics & modes of production, ecology & permaculture, and, of course, beauty, love & storytelling. He emphatically believes that a better and different world is possible.