Lawrence Grimm

Lawrence Grimm has been an actor and teacher for over 25 years. His teaching artist work includes extensive residencies in New York and Chicago’s public, private, and parochial schools, social services facilities, and with corporate businesses and ad agencies.

He served as a Communication and Presentation Skills Director for the database marketing team at Leo Burnett in Chicago for over five years and did extensive workshops with the Razorfish Ad Agency. In New York, Lawrence worked with Lincoln Center Institute, Roundabout Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, and Arts Connection. In Chicago his affiliations as a teacher include the Second City, Piven Theater Workshop, the Audition Studio, Writer’s Theater, Lookingglass Theater, The Illinois Arts Council, CAPE, Urban Gateways and Steppenwolf for Young Audiences where he served as Senior Facilitator for Curriculum and Instruction for over 10 years. He has a Masters in Education from DePaul University and was a high school English and Drama teacher at Stevenson High School (2006-09) and Chicago’s public high school for the arts, Chi-Arts (2010-14). Lawrence was the director of the Thresholds Theater Arts Project (1993-2000) which brought the voices of adults who have suffered from mental illness to the stage. Additionally, he currently works with the Memory Ensemble and those afflicted with Alzheimer’s through the Mesulam Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

As an actor, he is a founding ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theater and is the current Education Manger. He has worked extensively at Chicago’s prominent theaters including shows with Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, Next, Timeline, Shattered Globe, Court, Collaboraction, and Piven Theater Workshop. Film: Captive State, Welcome to Me (directed by Shira Piven with Kristen Wiig), Cicero in Winter, A Perfect Manhattan TV: Chicago PD, Chicago Med, The Red Line, Unsolved Mysteries, Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

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