S.A. Griffin

S.A. Griffin is an American actor, performance artist, poet, and publisher who has worked professionally on stage and on camera since 1979. Born in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in the San Francisco East Bay, he moved to Los Angeles after winning a scholarship in 1978 to a workshop run by the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. He won a Drama-Logue Award for his stage performance as Jud in Oklahoma! and has appeared in more than 150 commercials. His screen credits include Nightmare at Noon (1988), Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988), Cool as Ice (1991), and Red Velvet (2008), and he has worked with directors such as Clint Eastwood and Kathryn Bigelow. He is also the co-editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, a Firecracker Alternative Book Award winner, and he toured with the poetry performance groups The Lost Tribe and The Carma Bums.