Lawrence Grimm
Lawrence (Larry) Grimm is a founding ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre as well as a board member. As an actor at A Red Orchid, he has appeared in American Bottom, Do You Feel Anger?, Small Mouth Sounds, Traitor, 3C, Trevor (which earned him a Jeff Award nomination), In A Garden, Solstice, Megacosm, Abigail’s Party, Pumpgirl, The Meek, The Physicists, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Mr. Kolpert, and Born Guilty. As a director, he helmed the remount of Mierka Girten’s With or Without Wings, The Cut, and various AROT youth ensemble projects for Collaboraction’s Sketchbook and Theatre 7’s Landmark Project. He served as producer of the A Red Orchid project created for the citywide Now is The Time Project on youth violence and bullying.
Other select theatre credits: Marriott Lincolnshire (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Chicago Shakespeare Theater (King Charles III, The Tempest), Goodman (2666, The Upstairs Concierge), Timeline (My Name is Asher Lev), Victory Gardens (In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play), Shattered Globe (The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Hannah & Martin), Next Theatre (Maple & Vine, Welcome Home Jenny Sutter), Court (Orlando), Lookingglass (The Brothers Karamazov, 1984, The Naked King), Steppenwolf (I Never Sang for My Father, Wolf Lullaby), Piven Theatre Workshop (King Lear, Two by Pinter), and Raven Theatre (Glass Menagerie – Jeff Award Supporting Actor).
Film: Eric Larue (written by AROT’s Brett Neveu and directed by Michael Shannon), Night’s End (written by Brett Neveu), Captive State, Welcome to Me, Perfect Manhattan, and Cicero in Winter. TV: Chicago Med, PD, and Fire, Somebody Somewhere, and The Red Line. He is also the co-creator of the Grimmagination podcast.
As an avid arts educator and teacher, Larry has worked at Stevenson High School, Lincoln Center Institute, Steppenwolf for Young Audiences, CAPE, Lookingglass, Writer’s Theater, the Illinois Arts Council, Piven Theater Workshop, and the Acting Studio. He has a Masters in Education from DePaul University; taught for 4 years at Chi-Arts, Chicago’s first public high school for the arts; and served as a board member of Chicago Youth Shakespeare.