Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Grant is an actor, director, playwright and fight choreographer with thirty years of professional experience. As an actor he appeared opposite F. Murray Abraham in the Broadway national tour of The Merchant of Venice and has played leading roles at such prestigious American theatres as Lincoln Center, Theatre for a New Audience, The Guthrie Theatre, Yale Repertory, Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Old Globe, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage, Court Theatre (Chicago), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre Company, Phoenix Theatre Company, PlayMakers Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Milwaukee Repertory, People's Light (Philadelphia), Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Arizona Theatre Company, Red Bull Theater and the Utah, Illinois, Notre Dame, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Austin and Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals among many others. Film & Television work includes Chicago Fire, As the World Turns, Sex and the City, and Sleepers among others. Grant is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. A veteran of over seventy-five productions of Shakespeare's plays, Grant was recently chosen to represent the U.S. in the International Acting Fellowship at The Globe Theatre in London. As a performer, he has worked with luminary, Tony and Oscar Award winning directors and actors and has performed across the U.S. and abroad.  As a professional director, Grant was a founder of New York's Compass Rose Theatre Company - created with a mission to perform works of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama with a minimalist style and progressive, modern point of view. Grant has directed productions by playwrights ranging from Shakespeare to David Mamet to Georg Büchner and has helmed successful productions on both the professional and educational level. An innovative storyteller with an imaginative aesthetic, Grant brings an experienced practitioner's perspective to his direction. As a playwright, Grant’s plays include adaptations of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (finalist for The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship in Heightened Language for 2024), as well as the full-length plays The Forgeries of Jealousy, American Cyclone and These Gilded Monuments.