Alexandra Gray

Alexandra Gray is a playwright and performer whose work has been staged at St. Ann’s Warehouse, LaMama, One Arm Red, HERE Arts Center, and IRT Theater. Her approach and aesthetic are grounded in multimedia devised theater, where for over ten years, she worked with ensemble companies such as Six Characters and Synaesthetic Theatre to create original collaborative work for the stage, as well as three award-winning video shorts and a 30-minute TV pilot. As a solo playwright her work has been read at This Moment Productions, Houses on the Moon, and produced at Dixon Place in NYC. Her play, 'The Mud Room' was a semi-finalist for the NAP Series in 2023. Alex has been a resident artist with Holes in the Wall Collective and Chashama. Her creative nonfiction has been featured in The Huffington Post...

Alexandra Gray is a playwright and performer whose work has been staged at St. Ann’s Warehouse, LaMama, One Arm Red, HERE Arts Center, and IRT Theater. Her approach and aesthetic are grounded in multimedia devised theater, where for over ten years, she worked with ensemble companies such as Six Characters and Synaesthetic Theatre to create original collaborative work for the stage, as well as three award-winning video shorts and a 30-minute TV pilot. As a solo playwright her work has been read at This Moment Productions, Houses on the Moon, and produced at Dixon Place in NYC. Her play, 'The Mud Room' was a semi-finalist for the NAP Series in 2023. Alex has been a resident artist with Holes in the Wall Collective and Chashama. Her creative nonfiction has been featured in The Huffington Post, Girl Crush Zine (editors Jenna Wortham and Thessaly La Force), the No, You Tell It! 10-Year Storytelling Anthology, and Thó Wiŋ Magazine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Augsburg University.

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Scripts

Anne and Fran Take the Night Bus

by Alexandra Gray

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
period

Two women embark on an adventure to the Suffolk coast, in the process disrupting the course of a stranger’s life and calling into question their fundamental beliefs about the natural world.

Two women embark on an adventure to the Suffolk coast, in the process disrupting the course of a stranger’s life and calling into question their fundamental beliefs about the natural world.

Tongue-Tied

by Alexandra Gray

Cast Size
7—8
Genre
comedy,
drama,
period

'Tongue-Tied' follows two stories separated in time but linked by imagination: In 1927, a veteran film actor navigates the transition to talkies by losing his Bronx accent, while a female studio head pushes the industry to embrace its changing audience. In 1972, a young actor in London studies to mimic his uncle’s Trinidadian accent to land a film role that will honor his heritage. His grandmother, a retired...

'Tongue-Tied' follows two stories separated in time but linked by imagination: In 1927, a veteran film actor navigates the transition to talkies by losing his Bronx accent, while a female studio head pushes the industry to embrace its changing audience. In 1972, a young actor in London studies to mimic his uncle’s Trinidadian accent to land a film role that will honor his heritage. His grandmother, a retired nurse left speechless by a stroke, finds escape in fantasies of silent film, where she creates her own narrative, linking past with present. 'Tongue-Tied' examines the relationship between accent, ambition, and identity, and explores the costs of speaking with an authentic voice.

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Gnome Land's Book of the Dead

by Alexandra Gray

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama

When Bess lures her mother to a timeworn amusement park with weighty questions about their future, the answers are more bizarre and complex than either of them could have foreseen.

When Bess lures her mother to a timeworn amusement park with weighty questions about their future, the answers are more bizarre and complex than either of them could have foreseen.

The Mud Room

by Alexandra Gray

Cast Size
6—10
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
mystery/thriller

Two cousins purchase their deceased great-aunts' home at auction, in the process awakening the vengeful spirit of Baba Yaga, who has a special interest in evening the score on long-buried harms and family secrets.

Two cousins purchase their deceased great-aunts' home at auction, in the process awakening the vengeful spirit of Baba Yaga, who has a special interest in evening the score on long-buried harms and family secrets.

Botanica

by Alexandra Gray

Cast Size
5—7
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental

A magical realist dramedy about the last known specimen of a nearly-extinct lily in the American West. Botanica tangles with ideas of ownership and authenticity as locals and institutions vie for control over a beloved landscape.

A magical realist dramedy about the last known specimen of a nearly-extinct lily in the American West. Botanica tangles with ideas of ownership and authenticity as locals and institutions vie for control over a beloved landscape.

Photo Play

by Alexandra Gray

Cast Size
4—5
Genre
drama,
experimental

In a shared subconscious – the crossroads of memory, belief, and speculation – blood relations and chosen family grapple with shared truth in the pages of a dusty photo album. Photo play is a rumination on the power of personal snapshots: why we take them, how they map the present to the past, and what happens to the ones we alter, delete, or burn.

In a shared subconscious – the crossroads of memory, belief, and speculation – blood relations and chosen family grapple with shared truth in the pages of a dusty photo album. Photo play is a rumination on the power of personal snapshots: why we take them, how they map the present to the past, and what happens to the ones we alter, delete, or burn.