Reva Grimball is a director, writer, and teaching artist from Austin, Texas, based in New York City. She is a member of the Alliance of Women Directors, a Saturday Night Live Scholarship recipient for comedy writing, and an alumna of The Onion’s Diverse as F*ck writing program.
She created the Drunk Bathroom Girl TikTok series, winner of Best Original Concept at NYC Web Fest in 2024. Her film and digital work has also received recognition including Best Music Video at the Women’s Comedy Film Festival. She is a freelance writer for Cracked.com, heads the Director Program and directs at the independent sketch comedy collective BoogieManja, and teaches comedy writing at Upright Citizens Brigade and The Second City.
Before comedy and theatre, Reva trained as a biologist studying nematode neural pathways, virulence factors in pathogenic yeast, and gamifying sexually transmitted infection testing (in which she’s published). She holds a Master of Public Health in Infectious Disease and Vaccinology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from St. Edward’s University. In her free time, she likes reading space operas, participating in citizen science, making puppets, and playing taiko (Japanese drums).
