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George Gray Actor
Director Designer Founder of Stage One A Non-Profit Umbrella for Independent Theatre
824 Brookside Avenue Charlotte,
NC 28203
(704) 376-9047 (H) (704) 661-7585 (C) geogray@earthlink.net
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Current Project
A Rock and Roll Musical for Children of All Ages by George & Peter Gray
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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.
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Theatre Credits |
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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! 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 Musicals 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Positions
Held Recent
Activity
Acting:
Gary Gauger in The Exonerated, Charlotte
Repertory Theatre; Duke of Venice in Othello, Sea
Captain in
Directing:
South Pacific, Uwharrie Players; Down Home
Play Festival, Rick Hill Community Theatre; I
Do! I Do!,
Fort
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
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
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