THEATRE PIECES

Plays Directed by Paul Gray

Early Productions

Off- Broadway Theatre

Co-founded with Bernard Grebanier the Playwrights Repertory Company New York off Broadway Theatre. Founder (with Bernard Grebanier).

  • Directed GARCIA LORCA’S BLOOD WEDDING

Other early productions

  • WIILLIAMS’ CAMINO REAL
  • SAROYAN’S HELLO OUT THERE
  • SHAKESPEARE’S JULIUS CAESAR (for youngsters)
  • MILLAY’S ARIA DA CAPO
  • WILLIAMS’ THIS PROPERTRY IS CONDEMNED
  • THOMAS’ UNDER MILKWOOD
  • ANHOUIL’S ANTIGONE
  • IBSEN’S HEDDA GABLER (directed with Jim Peterson)
  • CARROL’S ALICE IN WONDERLAND (LE GALLIENNE VERSION)
  • SHAKESPEARE’S MERCHANT OF VENICE
  • SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT

Founder and director of the Actors Ensemble Theatre

With Frank Baker and Gretchen Gray, trained a corps of actors, designers and technicians to respond to specialized directorial images.

Plays Directed with the Ensemble Theatre

  • A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Williams
  • THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT, Giraudoux
  • THE DREAM PLAY, Strindberg, Gray adaptation

Cafe Del Mundo

  • COMMEDIA DELL ARTE, traditional, fully improvised
  • LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL, Wolfe, Frings
  • JB, MacLeish
  • THE FLIES, Sartre
  • MEDEA, Euripides
  • THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Wilde
  • PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER, Porter, Gray adaptation
  • THE BALCONY, Genet
  • THE NORTHRYDING MYSTERY PLAYS (in Middle English)
  • THE CENCI, Artaud (American Premiere)
  • HAPPY DAYS, Beckett
  • THE VISIT, Durrenmatt (American Premiere of original version)
  • DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL, Picasso

Paul Gray directs The Actors Ensemble in Repertory at the Advance Projet Repertory Company with the partial support of Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis

  • THE BALD SOPRANO, Ionesco
  • THE CHAIRS, Ionesco
  • OH DAD, POOR DAD, MOMMA'S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET, Kopit
  • WAITING FOR GODOT, Beckett
  • THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Williams
  • THE THREEPENNY OPERA, Brecht

Paul Gray is listed in "Who's Who in the American Theatre" for his innovative directing.