Photo by Daniel Zajicek.
JOHN GRIMMETT (he/him/his) is a composer, writer, producer, designer, and director.
His work has been performed internationally by the Washington National Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Nautilus Music Theater, and Houston Grand Opera as well as at universities and conservatory training programs across the United States. An author of musical theatre, opera, and art songs, Mr. Grimmett has collaborated with some of the most interesting contemporary voices writing and composing for the American theatre today, including Jason Carlson, Avner Dorman, Kenneth Froelich, Charles Halka, Joel Love, Liam Wade, and Daniel Zajicek. Additionally, he has collaborated with renowned performers in the creation of new works, including Ann Moss, Lucia Lucas, Emil Miland, Chanticleer, and the Hausmann Quartet, to name a few.
Mr. Grimmett’s mentors include Edward Albee, Mark Campbell, Erik Haagensen, Jake Heggie, Howard Pollack, and David Ashley White. A graduate of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, he also studied at the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University, where he was a recipient of the Max Dreyfus Scholarship from the ASCAP Foundation in recognition of his talent as a musical theatre composer.
Mr. Grimmett is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Texas Educational Theatre Association (TxETA), and the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA).
“A composer with a real theatrical sense: these scenes, looking so simple on the page, work in the theater — powerful, evocative, unequivocal, emotional… some ideas, some motivic ideas especially, linger in the consciousness. Grimmett is gifted, of this there is no doubt. His theatrical sense is as rare as it is palpable.”