“She is not an ordinary human being… She has the spunk of Punky Brewster, the mind of General Patton, and the awkward neuroticism of Woody Allen. She is lively, honest–full of piss and vinegar.” -Scott Lifton, producer of Mortified SF

“She is perfect for the stage. Presence, personality. Inward discipline, outer buoyancy.” -Kennedy Gray, Director, KRT Marketing

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Gray is on a mission to love Existence with such wild abandon that she inspires in you the courage and enthusiasm to do the same. Up for the challenge?

A writer and performer for nearly 2 decades, Gray draws on her eclectic background of improv, theater, dance, gymnastics, linguistics, Zen Buddhism and Corporate America to rub a metaphorical nose in the juicy, blurry spaces between I, me, you, Who. Mu.

Her fast-paced solo show, BURST opened in 2009 and has since been performed in New York, San Francisco, Santa Fe and Phoenix and part of the Women at Work festival. As the keynote speaker, Gray performed BURST at the 2010 New Mexico Consumer Wellness Conference in Albuquerque, NM. She is currently working on her second solo show Self-ish , which was presented at the 2011 Santa Fe Solo Performance Fest and is coming to The Garage in San Francisco April 4, 5  2012.

Gray does both on-stage and off-stage public, site-specific improv performances with central themes of identity, vulnerability, transparency. She performs regularly  with Mortified! San Francisco, Berkeley and New York. She appeared in “Joy of Lex,” a documentary on language for The Discovery Channel.

She studied improv and movement with Action Theater™ founder Ruth Zapora and teacher Owen Walker, Pan Theater, and ACT San Francisco, as well as writing with Natalie Goldberg, the late California poet laureate David Bromige, and was an editorial intern at The Believer Mag/McSweeney’s. She has a BA from University of California, Berkeley, in both Linguistics and Mass Communications.

And she loves you.

Click here for an artist resume (pdf)

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All photos (c) Todd Chalfont