Broadway Producer, Director and Author. Grimball's early education was in the Charleston schools. She became interested in theatre and decided to move to New York to seek further training. She came under the tutlelage of Norman Bel Geddes, famous designer and producer and soon graduated from the Boston School of Expression. Her first dramatic teaching position was at Converse College in South Carolina. Grimball decided that her career was best lived in New York. where she founded an experimental theatrical group at Cherry Lane Theatre and later founded the New York School of the Theatre and the Drury Lane Theatre. Among her students there were Helen Gahagan Douglas and Lauren Bacall. At one point five of Elizabeth's students were playing in various plays in New York. She was co-producer of plays at Woodstock Summer Theater and co-director of the Brattleboro Vermont Company. In 1921 she directed the early silent film "The Lost Colony". During World War II she was chairman of recreation facilities for the Charleston area, working with the Office of Civilian Defense. After World War I, she conducted theatricals in France for the American troops. She also taught dramatics to groups presenting productions at the Salzburg, Austria Drama and Music Festival. Her productions there received tribute from critics in England, Austria, France, Italy, Russia and Germany. In 1951 she was named to Carnegie Hall's Gallery of Famous People and was the first woman dramatics teacher to be included in the International Who's Who and the first American Woman invited to head a department at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg. Before her death she had produced 51 plays and pageants in this country and in Europe. Among her Broadway plays were "Shoot", "March Hares", "Tyrants" and "Manhaters". A standard text "Costuming a Play" was written by her and has had three editions published. She also wrote "The Snow Queen" in 1920, and the "The Waif" in 1924. Late in her life she returned to Charleston where she founded the Children's Theatre and taught at the Watt School.
Broadway Producer, Director and Author. Grimball's early education was in the Charleston schools. She became interested in theatre and decided to move to New York to seek further training. She came under the tutlelage of Norman Bel Geddes, famous designer and producer and soon graduated from the Boston School of Expression. Her first dramatic teaching position was at Converse College in South Carolina. Grimball decided that her career was best lived in New York. where she founded an experimental theatrical group at Cherry Lane Theatre and later founded the New York School of the Theatre and the Drury Lane Theatre. Among her students there were Helen Gahagan Douglas and Lauren Bacall. At one point five of Elizabeth's students were playing in various plays in New York. She was co-producer of plays at Woodstock Summer Theater and co-director of the Brattleboro Vermont Company. In 1921 she directed the early silent film "The Lost Colony". During World War II she was chairman of recreation facilities for the Charleston area, working with the Office of Civilian Defense. After World War I, she conducted theatricals in France for the American troops. She also taught dramatics to groups presenting productions at the Salzburg, Austria Drama and Music Festival. Her productions there received tribute from critics in England, Austria, France, Italy, Russia and Germany. In 1951 she was named to Carnegie Hall's Gallery of Famous People and was the first woman dramatics teacher to be included in the International Who's Who and the first American Woman invited to head a department at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg. Before her death she had produced 51 plays and pageants in this country and in Europe. Among her Broadway plays were "Shoot", "March Hares", "Tyrants" and "Manhaters". A standard text "Costuming a Play" was written by her and has had three editions published. She also wrote "The Snow Queen" in 1920, and the "The Waif" in 1924. Late in her life she returned to Charleston where she founded the Children's Theatre and taught at the Watt School.
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