Artist Info: Spalding Gray

Spalding Rockwell Gray (June 5, 1941 - January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer from Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s.

Theater critics John Willis and Ben Hodges described his monologue work as "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, WASP, quiet mania". Gray achieved celebrity status for his monologue Swimming to Cambodia [read more...]