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John Angell Grant
John Angell Grant

 

John Angell Grant is a writer/director/actor from Palo Alto, California.

 

Movies

John’s latest short film “Lurk” won “Best Super Short Film” at the Florence Film Awards. It also won Best Micro Short at the Berlin Short Film Festival. You can watch “Lurk” here.

His earlier short film “Desert Harem” also won multiple film festival awards, including the Gold Award for Drama at the Paris Film Awards. You can watch “Desert Harem” here.

John’s short film “How to Make Amendswon “Best Indie Short Film” at the Paris Film Awards; “Best U.S. Narrative Short” at the Austin International Art Festival; the “Gold Award: Best Indie Short Film” at the International Gold Awards; and the “Silver Award: Indie Short Film” at the New York Movie Awards. You can see the film here.

His earlier short film “Two Stoners” won multiple awards, including “Best Micro Film” at the Vienna Indie Short Film Awards; “Best Micro Short” at the Philadelphia International Filmmaker Awards; and a Sapphire Award for “Comedy Short” at the Focus International Film Festival. You can see “Two Stoners: here.

John’s short film, “1958” won several awards, including “Best Super Short Film” at the Hollywood Gold Awards; and “Best Cast” at Toronto’s Couch Film Festival. You can see the film here.

American Golden Pictures did an interview with John here.


Poetry

John’s book of poems, “The Green Notebook,” is published by EPE Press, in San Francisco. More info here and here (press release) and here.

You can read reviews of “The Green Notebook” here.


Books

Academica Press published John Angell Grant’s book entitled Women and Religion in the Modern Drawing Room Plays of T.S. Eliot.  Read more

John’s serialized novel A Deadly Secret tells of homicide and intrigue in present-day Palo Alto. Episodes from the novel were published each day in the Palo Alto Daily Post. Read episodes

John’s earlier serialized novel Palo Alto Odyssey, about rapidly changing life in present-day Palo Alto, ran for seventy-two episodes in the Palo Alto Daily Post newspaper in the fall of 2015. Read episodes


Plays

John Angell Grant - Package for Max
Kim Baer, Abraham Arello and David Grissom in John Angell Grant’s play “A Package for Max” at New Branch Theater Company in Chicago

Grant is also the author of twelve produced stage plays. Read more


Holocaust Interviews

During his tenure as video producer for San Francisco’s Holocaust Oral History Project, Grant produced hundreds of video interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and liberators. Read more


Acting

John Angell Grant is also an actor. You can see samples of his work in the short films “How to Make Amends” and “Desert Harem.”

Stay in touch!

Tom Ammon and Stewart Lyle in “A Package for Max” at the Pear Avenue Theater in Mountain View

Leighanna Edwards and Nadine Chiarito in John Angell Grant’s play “Recess” at the Labor Day Theatre Festival in Belmont, CA

Jan Zvaifler and T. Mikel in John Angell Grant’s “Breakfast” at the Bare Stage in Berkeley

Rhonda Joy Taylor and Dorothea Standish in John Angell Grant’s play “Skunk” at Onstage Theater, Martinez, CA.