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
• 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.