Overview
Character Name
Grandma Gellman
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Role Size
Featured
Dancing
Mover
Voice
Mezzo-Soprano
Vocal Range
High Note: E5
Low Note: G3
Time & Place
lake charles, louisiana, 1963
Analysis
Stuart Gellman’s mother. Jewish. Like her husband, Grandma Gellman is omnipresent in her son’s life. She sees how his grief over the loss of his wife, Betty, tears at him, but is judgmental of the way she died (lung cancer following a life of chain-smoking cigarettes).
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