katharine clark grayplaywright, etc.
katharine clark grayKatharine Clark Gray is a 2008 recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. In 2001 she created Governor’s Laundress Productions to produce challenging work for stage, including her own The B Side [music by Chris Blisset] and You see me comin’ you better run [a Village Voice Choice]. Other credits include Francis Bacon [Kitchen Theatre Co.]; Wired Shut [Manhattan Theatre Source]; True Dreams of Wichita at People’s Improv Theatre, and numerous collaborations with Raw Impressions at Chashama and LaMama, Etc. Her work has been produced by The Drilling Co., Three Graces, Boomerang, Process Theatre, MTP!, and the internationally acclaimed summer festival NextFest in Edmonton, AB. Her academic revenge romance 516 (five sixteen) premiered at the NY Int’l Fringe Festival, and has become a staple of the curriculum at Syracuse University’s Drama Dept. Locally, Ms. Gray was a writer/performer for Brat Productions’ Barrymore award-winning Three Chord Fiction, and her techno-thriller User 927 concluded Brat’s ’07-’08 season. Her work has been published by Smith & Kraus and EstroPress. Ms. Gray has lately been commissioned to write book & story for The Pestilence is Coming, a new musical for Full Circle Theatre Co., to be presented in 2010.
As a reporter for Origivation magazine, Ms. Gray has interviewed such musical luminaries as Perry Farrell, Daniel Johnston, the Skatalites, Motion City Soundtrack and Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz. She is currently enjoying her first year as member of InterAct Theatre Co.’s Playwrights Forum and as a Teaching Artist with Philadelphia Young Playwrights. She has also worked as a muralist and educator for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Ms. Gray is a co-founder and current New Media Director of A Chip & A Chair Films and acted as Art Director and Line Producer for the company’s first feature If You Could Say It In Words.
