Grace Ward
I tell stories that laugh at the world while still believing in it!
Bio
Grace Ward is a screenwriter, librettist and author from the wildflower-filled foothills of Boise, Idaho. Raised on the road with her parents’ rock band, she developed an early love for outrageous comedy, protest art, and storytelling in community. Her work centers girlhood, neurodivergence, and women reclaiming power in unconventional ways. She is passionate about writing stories that offer meaningful representation for neurodivergent women, and themes of accessibility, accommodation, and acceptance permeate her work, informed in part by her experience as a special educator and disability advocate. Grace is committed to creating complex, funny roles for women and crafting comedy-forward stories where women tell the jokes instead of being the butt of them.
Grace holds an MFA in Creative Writing for Young People and Dramatic Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is an alum of the Seattle Opera Creation Lab, Surel’s Place Residency, and the National Theatre Institute. Her work has been developed and presented by Seattle Opera, Boise Contemporary Theatre, SheArts Festival, and Connective Theatre Co. in Chicago.
As a librettist and lyricist, she has written two children’s musicals, a one-act opera (Caccini’s Ghost, Seattle Opera, 2025), and two full-length musicals. Her flagship project, BL!NK, co-written with composer Elke Myers, is a hot-pink musical comedy about ambition, friendship, and what it means to be a woman in STEM. Their other collaboration, The Wind in the Wildflowers, a feminist adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, premiered as a Children’s Reading Series hit at Boise Contemporary Theatre in 2025, which also commissioned their next children’s musical.
Grace’s honors include the Ginny Rorby Scholarship, the SheArts Composers Scholarship, and the Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship for Feminist Writing. Her essays and short fiction appear in Clockhouse Literary Journal, Noyo Review, and Antioch Voices. Outside of writing, she enjoys trail running, skiing, mountain biking, and backpacking through the Idaho mountains with her partner.
My work blends irreverent humor with heartfelt sincerity, remixing history, myth, and everyday life into playful, stylized worlds where outsiders, dreamers, and underdogs take center stage. Whether it’s a coming-of-age misadventure, a revisionist romance, or a fantastical comedy, I use wit and wonder to explore how hope survive in unlikely places.
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