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RICHARD GREMEL

"Richard Gremel is turning out to be a prolific playwright for children's theater"
-Kathleen Allen, Arizona Daily Star.
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Richard Gremel with the cast of his play, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Pictured: Richard Gremel (Writer), Cindi LaFrese (Dorthy), Stephen Frankenfield (Scarecrow), Michael Martinez (Tin Man), Leslie Miller (Co-Writer/Director) Amanda Gremel (Cowardly Lion)
BIO
Richard Gremel resides in Tucson, Arizona where he lives with his wife and two kids. He earned his B.F.A in Theatre Education from the University of Arizona in 2008. Currently, he is the Theatre Arts Director at Empire High School, teaching acting and technical theatre. Richard was one of nine finalists in the 2015-2016, Circle K/University of Arizona Outstanding High School Faculty Awards Program.  Richard was also featured as an Arts Hero for ONMedia in 2018-2019.  His theatre program, at Empire High School, is well-known throughout the State and has received many awards including Best musical of Tucson for the National High School Musical Theatre Awards: Tucson Sing-off, the Chapter Select One-Act in 2013-2014, and the State One-Act Championship in 2015, where his students performed one of his original plays. In 2017 and 2019, his theatre department was named the #1 high school theatre program in Southern Arizona.  Richard also works at several local theatre companies as an actor, director, scenic and lighting designer, and playwright.
As a playwright, Richard has written a number of plays for

Live Theatre Workshop's: Family Theatre (A series that presents original plays and musicals for families.) He has also written a variety of full length plays designed to be acted and presented for middle/high school students. The mission of his writing is to create works, which allow students to develop large characters with clear objectives and to provide entertainment for the audience.
He currently has a number of plays which have been performed for local audiences, as well as, eight published plays that have been seen across the US, Canada, India, Hong Kong, England, and Australia.

Featured Play

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Tabitha Turnpike has a MONSTERous Problem

Tabitha Turnpike is a little girl with a big imagination. But when her imagination gets her in trouble with her mom and dad, they insist that she quit being creative and grow up. Only problem is, Tabitha discovers a monster living under her bed and she can’t tell her mom and dad about it, because they will think she’s using her imagination again. Her monster has problems of his own. So the two team up and travel to Underthebedland to use their creativity and prove that all of us, monsters and humans, are great despite of our differences.
This Play is currently playing at Live Theatre Workshop, Tucson, AZ .


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