A writer, actor, and performer, Spalding Gray created a series of eighteen monologues which were performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia, including: "Sex and Death to the Age 14"; "Booze, Cars, and College Girls"; "A Personal History of the American Theater"; "India and After (America)"; "Swimming to Cambodia"; "Terrors of Pleasure"; "Monster in a Box"; "Gray's Anatomy", "Morning, Noon and Night", and "Life Interrupted".
His OBIE Award-winning "Swimming to Cambodia" became a critically acclaimed film by Jonathan Demme and "Terrors of Pleasure" was televised as a special for HBO.
Mr. Gray received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Rockefeller Foundation. Spalding Gray died January 10, 2004.
He co-founded the Wooster Group in 1977, an avant-garde ensemble, where he wrote and performed the autobiographical trilogy, "Three Places in Rhode Island." Mr. Gray also appeared on stage in the role of the Stage Manager for the revival of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town", directed by Gregory Mosher; and Off Broadway as Hoss, in the Performing Group's New York premiere of Sam Shepard's "Tooth of Crime".
His film roles include "The Killing Fields", "Swimming to Cambodia", "True Stories", "Stars and Bars", "Clara's Heart", "Revolution #9", and "Beaches".
Publications include a collection of monologues, "Sex and Death to the Age 14"; "Swimming to Cambodia"; "In Search of the Monkey Girl"; a Chekhov adaptation in the collection "Orchards"; the novel "Impossible Vacation", and "Morning, Noon and Night."
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