George Gray

Actor    Director    Designer
Producer    Playwright
Teacher

Founding Director of 

Stage One

A Non-Profit Umbrella

for Independent Theatre

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824 Brookside Avenue, Charlotte, NC  28203 

(704) 376-9047 (H) (704) 661-7585 (C)

  geogray@earthlink.net

 

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George Gray has acted, directed, designed, produced, written, and/or taught in association with more than 50 professional, academic, or community theatre organizations, for nearly half a century.  He earned degrees from Chapel Hill and Kansas State University, held a Schubert Fellowship at the University of Texas, and taught at Limestone College, SUNY/Brockport, and Salisbury State College.  During this time (1961-83), he also served in the Army, sojourned in Paris, drew unemployment, and worked professionally with stock and repertory theatres all over the country.

       In 1983, he settled the family in Charlotte, where worked extensively with the Children’s Theatre, the Golden Circle Theatre, Barebones Theatre Group, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre, the Afro-American Children's Theatre, and Theatre Charlotte. He has also appeared in numerous radio and TV commercials, several TV programs, and five feature films. 

       These days, he's pushing WolfTales, a rock and roll musical for kids he and Peter developed back in '92.  Click on the marquee for a tour.

 

 

Theatre Credits

Directing

(Selection)

Blood Wedding   Electra   Don Juan in Hell   Rashoman Too True to Be Good   I Remember Mama   The Woods   Spoon River Anthology   Desire Under the Elms   Orphans   A Streetcar Named Desire   Little Murders   All My Sons   Adaptation/Next   The Rose Tattoo   Danger, Memory!   Kennedy’s Children   Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?   Blessed Assurance   Slow Dance on the Killing Ground   

You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running

See How They Run   You Can’t Take It With You   

Waiting for Godot   Endgame   Happy Days   

The Fantasticks!   Man of La Mancha   I Do! I Do!   
Amahl and the Night Visitors   Jacques Brel...   Oklahoma!   South Pacific   Show Boat  

 Rumpelstiltskin   The Magic Isle   The Velveteen Rabbit   The Happy Prince   The Emperor's New Clothes    WolfTales   The Brink of Disaster   Charlotte’s Web   

Playwriting

Full Length
The Assembly of God        Seance & Wake  
The Dog Man of Brignoles        Susanna Rowson in Hull
Sing You Morning Birds!        The Infernal Machine (trans)
A Charm of Finches, A Murder of Crows

Musicals
WolfTales       A Live Woman in the Mines  
The Brink of Disaster           State of the Union  
The Happy Prince      *The Velveteen Rabbit
The Mark Twain Traveling Sunshine Show

Short Plays

The Freedom Tree    The Elephant Gun     Ella May   
The Button    The Isolate    Another Bus Stop   
Of All the Forgotten Faces    Norman’s Turn to Ride   
Three Way Stop    Behind the Mill    Jack & Bill

* Published by Encore Performance Publishing

Acting Favorites

(since 1959)

Claudius & Ghost   The Two Dukes   Norfolk  Gratiano   Vladimir & Krapp   King Arthur   Don Quixote   Jacques Brel...   Scrooge   El Gallo   Narrator/Mysterious Stranger   Willie Baxter   Mister Green   Commodore Roseabove   Max   Joe   Leo   Obadiah Buckhorn   Valere   Trofimoff   Chaim Soutine   Sir Francis Levison   Alan Baker

 

(Also radio/TV commercials, industrial/feature films)

Design

(Often collaborating with Sandra Gray;

excluding plays listed under Directing)

Brighton Beach Memoirs    The Underpants    My Fair Lady    Driving Miss Daisy    The Importance of Being Earnest    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?    The Taming of the Shrew    Into the Woods    Sweet Charity   Catch Me If You Can    Damn Yankees    Ten Nights in a Barroom   East Lynne  Romeo and Juliet   Private Lives   Design for Living   
The Lion in Winter    Mixed Babies & The Love Talker   

Courses Taught

Acting

beginning to advanced    children, teens, undergraduates, adults

improv    character analysis    voice & movement    audition & performance techniques

Limestone College, SUNY/Brockport, Salisbury State University, Kansas State University, University of Texas/ Austin, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, People First Players, Fort Mill Community Players, Summer STAARTS

 

Directing

Kansas State University, Limestone College, SUNY/Brockport, Salisbury State University 

 

Theatre Appreciation, Theatre History, Dramatic Literature

Limestone College, Salisbury State University

 

Design, Playwriting, Stagecraft

Limestone College     

Positions Held 

Recent Activity

      Acting:  Claudius/Ghost in Hamlet and Bill Tanner in Midwives, NC Stage Company

      Directing:  I Do! I Do!, Fort Mill Community Players; Little Murders, Barebones Theatre Group

      Design:  My Fair Lady, Brevard High School; Brighton Beach Memoirs, Davidson Community Players

                   Parade Day and The Underpants, Barebones Theatre Group; Negras Eros, Afro-American
             Cultural Center

 

Employment History

1999-2002   Technical Director, Theatre Charlotte

1983-1999   Freelance Theatrical Credits, Charlotte Area (see above)

      Golden Circle Theatre, Actors Theatre of Charlotte, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Charlotte

      Repertory Theatre, Theatre Charlotte, Afro-American Children’s Theatre, Afro-American Cultural

      Center, Charlotte Shakespeare Company, Old Courthouse Theatre, Rock Hill Children’s Theatre,

      Fort Mill Community Players, Wink Lighting, JTA Talent Agency

1983-90       Product Information Analyst, Unisys Corporation (1983-90)

1976-82       Teaching (see below)

1973-74       Technical Writer, AMP, Inc., Gastonia, NC

      1966-69       Special Services Officer, 4th Armored Division, Goeppingen, Germany

1964-83       Freelance Theatrical Credits (Acting, Directing, Playwriting)

      Fredericksburg (VA) Summer Theatre; Pine Cone Players, Grand Lake, CO; Student Theatre Guild,

      Raleigh, NC; State of the Union and  Susanna Rowson in Hull, Boston, MA; Gastonia (NC) Little

      Theatre; Conkle Playwrights Theatre, Austin, TX; Zachary Scott Theatre, Austin, TX; Continental

      Theatre Company, Manhattan, KS; Old Abilene (KS) Opera House; Manhattan (KS) Community

      Theatre; Quonset Theatre, Cooke Barracks, Germany; Barn Dinner Theatre, Richmond, Roanoke,

      Greensboro, Atlanta; East Carolina Summer Theatre, Greenville, NC

 

Teaching Experience      (College/University)

        1980-82       Director of Theatre, Salisbury (MD) State University (SSU)

        1979-80       Visiting Assistant Professor (Acting and Directing), State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport

        1976-79       Director of Theatre (1-person department), Limestone College, Gaffney, SC

        1972-73       Graduate Teaching Assistant (Voice & Diction), University of Texas at Austin

        1969-72       Graduate Teaching Assistant (Acting, Directing, Speech), Kansas State University

                (Non-Academic Teaching Positions)

        1997-99       Playwriting Coach, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte Young Playwrights Festival

        1996-97       Director, Forth Mill (SC) Community Players Summer Camp (grades 4-12)

        1993-96       Adjunct Instructor, Winthrop University Summer Camp (grades 6-8)

        1990-92       Founding Director, Mental Health Association’s People First Players, Charlotte, NC

        1987-93       Post Advisor, Children’s Theatre Explorers, Charlotte, NC

                Courses Taught:  Acting, Voice & Diction, Oral Interpretation, Directing, Playwriting, Stagecraft, Design, Theatre Appreciation, Theatre History, Dramatic Literature

 

Education

BA in Dramatic Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1965

MA in Speech & Theatre, Kansas State University, 1972

Schubert Playwriting Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, 1973

 

References Upon Request