Adverse Effects

After the death of their daughter, Phil and Jessica must find a balance in their marriage while struggling with being middle class in the Midwest. 

Richard, a university scientist, is being paid by a pharmaceutical company to put his name on studies he didn't conduct. 

Allysa, the representative of the pharmaceutical company, wants a more lavish life. 

Maurice, the local reporter for a small town online newspaper, wants to connect some dots. 

"[A] meticulously researched and deliberately presented, building the drama of ordinary people facing wealthy giants who normally crush them. Gruenloh spares nobody in his script: the pharmaceutical companies, the marketers, the academic community so eager to get in on the big money by signing off on drug tests, and, of course, Congress." (FromtheEditr) 

“What marks a good playwright is his sense of how fiction works in motion. Gruenloh has that.” (The Roanoke Times)