Links
THE SPALDING GRAYS - Indie / Rock / Alternative- just discovered this band from Charlotte, North Carolina
no details yet on the name...
Forrest Gray's new band:the Glazzies on myspace...
link to the Mexican punk band Spalding Gray and their 2004 CD Open Half Door (CD available in Mexico
- for all other orders kindly contact webmaster of this site - spaldinggray.com - through contact link)
I do get asked "where can I find training courses for story telling/monologues?"
I know Mike Daisey sometimes does this (see his site), but here is one coming up in NYC
and one ongoing in California. Both people are strongly influenced by Spalding.
NYC Writer's Workshop: http://www.newyorkwritersworkshop.com/courses.html
Jewish Community Center: http://www.jccmanhattan.org/category.aspx?catid=1533
a monologue coach in Sante Fe, NM and Spalding is my total inspiration!
www.ProjectLifeStories.org and
www.TheSoloPerformanceCoach.com
Gary Roma - Boston Documentary Maker
www.heavypetting.com There is 5 minutes of interview with Spalding in the "Witness" section (DVD only)
Thanks. Obie Benz, Director, HEAVY PETTING(Excellent film - note the extras with Spalding on DVD)
Tom Benedek - Noted Screenplay Writer
For Spalding Gray, One Last Tale
the NYT review of Stories Left to Tell
Life Interrupted, The Unfinished Monologue
by Diana Manister (Excellent Review) Thanks to Mark Flanagan
About Contemporary Literature
Remembering Spalding, April 13, 2004
By Colette Boudreau - a review of the NYC Memorial
My Art in Life
Interviewing Spalding Gray
by Richard Schechner
- EXCELLENT 20 page interview
www.studio3k.com web design company where everyone is a Spuddy!!!
Feeding the Monster- Mark Mobley's presentation of Monster in a Box (May 2005)
Gray Matters - the EXCELLENT article by Davis Sweet
Excellent link to ALL kinds of things in NYC
link to VERY strange (viewer descretion advised) book 'Stiff' by Mary Roach:
about a French doctor/religious nut who was trying to prove the
Shroud of Turin's legitimacy by crucifying a corpse. The one he chose --
and photographed -- for his 1931 experiment, according to Roach, "bears
an uncanny resemblance to the monologuist Spalding Gray."
(scroll down to Figure 3)...
The TOO BUSY BEING BORED Band with Forrest Gray
Stephen
Tobolowsky:
Actor
and Storyteller
film.com
imdb.com
Toronto International Film Festival
Thom
Powers http://www.tiff07.ca/blogs/blog/default.aspx?blg=1
Real
to Reel http://www.tiff07.ca/filmsandschedules/realtoreel/
Rhonda Moskowitz http://www.connectthedocsboston.org
Interviewing The Audience performed without permission from Estate - BIG NO NO...
Gray
Girls
graygirls.com (great site)
Sandbox
Magazine
sylviemyerson.com
The
Buddhist Review (EXCELLENT magazine)
Philip Ryan
Spalding's
Work Expressed in Dance
Village Voice
Phillip Bannowsky: Art & Activism
James Braly Live: Life in a Marital Institution
Barry Smith: Writer & Performer
Stories
Left To Tell
by R. B. Stuart
Hamptons.com
Interviewing The Audience with Zach Helm, Friday and Saturday (11,07/15-17) at Bootleg Theater
in Los Angeles (www.bootlegtheater.com) (Appropriate name!)
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SHOW PUT ON WITHOUT ESTATE PERMISSION. THIS IS A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION AND THE ESTATE DOES NOT CONDONE THIS!!! FOR PERFORMANCE RIGHTS INFO, WRITE TO ME ('CONTACT')...
THE
LAST DAYS OF DESMOND NANI REESE: A Stripper’s History of the World
Written and performed by Heather
Woodbury
Winner of the first Spalding
Gray Award
Stories
Left To Tell Extends Off-Broadway Run; Dratch Will Guest Star
by Andrew Gans
Stories
Left To Tell: The Kathie Russo Interview at Austin 360
by Brad Buchholz
Edison
shares Spalding Gray's 'Stories Left to Tell'
by Liam Otten
Scientology vs. Science by Andrew Gumbel
STOPSMILING
Spalding
Gray: The Last Digression
by Steve Finbow
The Minetta Lane CAST UPDATES
Josh
Lucas Will Guest Star in Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell Beginning
March 20
Broadway.com
Nilaja
Sun INTERVIEW
One
Actress, One Troubled School of Characters
No
Child
The Nilaja
Sun hit solo play
Nilaja Sun in Huck and Holden
New York Post article
by Barbara Hoffman
Anatomy
of Gray Matters
Stories Left to Tell
A review
from
Newsday
A
New Life in Shades of Gray
Shades of Gray
Sarah
Maxfield interviews Kathie
Russo at Culturebot
New York Event
February-April - 2007
Coming Soon to New York City: Spalding Gray: Leftover Stories To Tell
The writings
of Spalding Gray - Compiled by Kathie Russo and Lucy Sexton.
Be the first to receive special announcements and special offers by clicking here:
http://www.storieslefttotell.com/
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104843.html
Off Broadway ticket discounts
http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2007/02/offbroadway_on.php
Ticketmaster:
www.ticketmaster.com
New Yorker
Magazine's "Going ons about town"
http://www.newyorker.com/goingson/theatre/articles/070219goth_GOAT_theatre
Shades
of Gray-a preview:
http://www.culturebot.org/archives/2007/02/12/ShadesOfGray.php
New York
Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/theater/25zino.html?ref=theater
Theatre Mania .com
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/10156
Blogs
http://zemonstah.blogspot.com/index.html
http://thesleeper.typepad.com/sleeper/2007/02/spalding_grays_.html
Up is Up
But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene-(Spuddy's in here).
http://www.sfstation.com/up-is-up-but-so-is-down-new-yorks-downtown-literary-scene-e30453
Lawrence
Wright:
THEATER:
Writer Lawrence Wright's 'Trip to al-Qaeda' re-enacts his look into the
face of terrorism
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-wright_0215gl.State.Edition1.1f4d36.html
Spalding
Gray 'Haiku':
http://www.americansentences.com
Mike Daisy
Workshop:
http://sketchfest.blogspot.com/index.html
Spalding
Gray's son Forrest's Band - A review
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/01/14yearold-punks-rock-the-hamptons.php
SPALDING
GRAY: THE LAST DIGRESSION - An article by Steve Finbow
http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/features_detail.html?id1=729
New York Event
February-April
- 2007
Coming
Soon to New York City: "Spalding Gray-Leftover Stories To Tell"
The writings
of Spalding Gray - Compiled by Kathie Russo and Lucy Sexton.
http://www.storieslefttotell.com/
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/104843.html
Double
Lunar Dogs by Joan Jonas-Spalding Gray with Laurie Anderson in a Sci-Fi
video clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPfKm8j1YU
Help
Wanted: A Personal Search for Meaningful Employment at the Start of the
21st Century,
By Josh Lefkowitz(An
Article)
New York EVENT
May 31
- June 4 - 2006
A
Tribute to Spalding Gray: Leftover Stories to Tell
Reserved
Seating $75 (includes post-performance reception with artists)
General
Admission $50
Performance
Space 122
150 First
Avenue
NYC, NY
10009
TICKETS
Leftover
Stories to Tell
Directed by Kathy Russo and
Lucy Sexton
Featuring
Jonathan
Ames
Hazelle
Goodman
Ain
Gordon
Bob
Holman
James
Urbaniak
Guest Performers
Olympia
Dukakis (Wednesday, May 31)
Debra
Winger and David Straithairn (Thursday, June 1)
Steve
Buscemi (Friday, June 2)
Fisher
Stevens (Saturday, June 3)
Joel
Grey (Sunday, June 4)
LOS ANGELES EVENT
UCLALIVE concludes it's 2005-2006 Spoken Word series with
Leftover Stories to Tell
A Tribute to Spalding Gray
The Unpublished Works
Wed-Sat, Jun 14 -17 at 8pm
Sun, Jun 18 at 7pm
Tickets: $45 ($15 UCLA students)
310.825.2101
www.uclalive.org
Cast to
date includes:
Brooke Adams
Margaret Cho
Frances Conroy
Teri Garr
Gina Gershon
Ain Gordon
Bob Holman
Miranda July
Alice Sebold
Tony Shaloub
Roger Guenveur Smith
Loudon Wainwright III
Kerry Washington
Paul Zaloom
2007 EVENT
March 30 and 31
The Edison Theater at Washington University
Leftover Stories to Tell: A Tribute to Spalding Gray
. . . And The First Spalding Gray Award Goes TO . . .
The very pale Jim
Gaffigan: actor, writer, comedian.
Monologuist John Leyman's A Brief History of My Tattoo
Wooster Group's Kate Valk in The Emperor Jones
Theater News: Blues for a Gray Sun's Nilaja Sun in Huck and Holden
Washington Post Blurbs Life Interrupted
Spalding Collaborator Steven Soderbergh Releases Bubble
Monologuist Josh Lefkowitz's
A
Personal Search for Meaningful Employment at the Start of the 21st Century
Lecturer, Writer, Artist &
Teacher David Greenberger
Duplex
Planet
The Wooster Group
New York poet and critic Diana Manister reviewsLife Interrupted
at Contemporary Literature
Performance Artist Laurie Anderson (Swimming To Cambodia soundtrack):NASA's Artist-In-Residence
Magnolia
Pictures announces it's Magnolia Home Entertainment
division;
titles to be released include Steven Soderbergh's
Spalding
Gray, The Last Monologue
Life Interrupted: Exit Talking
Playbill
News: Life Interrupted is published by Crown
(Purchase)
Swimming to Cambodia presented by:
Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton (P.A.C.E)
41 Union St, Easthampton, MA 01027
(413) 527-3700
April 8 at 8pm, April 9 at 8pm and April 10,2005 at 2pm
May 27 through June 11 2005 at the Flamboyan Theater
A Spalding Gray Matter is written and performed by Michael Brandt.
http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/111119
http://www.breedingground.com/SFFspalding.html
http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news/apr05/5apr05spalding.htm
Spalding's
friends and colleagues read from his work:
Bogosian, Holman, Reno, Valk
to Read Work of Spalding Gray at
Barnes &
Noble
May 4,
2005
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92516.html
John
Boland's
Swimming
to Manhattan
Mel Gussow, Longtime Chronicler
of New York Theatre, Dies
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92681.html
Monologuist Dave Gorman: Googlewhacker!
http://u.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,218~24216~2791957,00.html
Playbill News: Steven Soderbergh
to Direct Documentary About Spalding Gray
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91794.html
Soderbergh on Gray's Anatomy(and
other things)
http://stevensoderbergh.tripod.com/print/roughcut0396.html
On the first anniversary of Spalding
Gray's disappearance, Gaby Wood tells his final story.
On the night of 10 January 2004,
Spalding Gray disappeared.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1379764,00.html
National Public Radio consolidates
Spalding articles:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1781976
Barlow Friendz
http://barlow.typepad.com/barlowfriendz/2004/01/
Essence of Spalding: Flying
to Nirvana
http://www.afwaddell.com/spalding.html
Crazy About the Vineyard
http://www.vineyardplayhouse.org/articles/2004/article0401.html
Crazy About the Beach
http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/03/11/spalding_gray/index_np.html
The Black Hippie Chronicles
http://www.portlandonline.com/index.cfm?event_id=12824&cal=DisplayEvent&c=cjfcg
Eric Bogosian's Wake Up And
Smell The Coffee
http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=6326
Spalding Gray Tells All
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/01.17/03-gray.html
Lost in New York
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=482019
IO Magazine: Gray Noise
http://www.altx.com/io/gray1.html
Spalding Interviews The Dalai
Lama
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/132/story_13252_1.html
Vanishing Act
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/features/n_9787/
Vanishing Point
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14417-2004Feb4.html
Left Behind
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040320/SUICIDE20/TPComment/TopStories
The Genius of Spalding Gray
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2001884207_spalding21.html
Remembering The Artist
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0411/russell.php
The Gate : An Interview
http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/profile/arc98/0101gray.shtml
Communing with Spalding
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.27.93/NEWS/nv0527b.htm
True Stories: The Workshop
http://www.eomega.org/omega/workshops/b2acbbc80ea43a1554114b792482f8ba/
My Art in Life: Interviewing
Spalding Gray
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/methods/spalding.pdf
West Coast Tribute to Spalding
Gray
http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/10-18/gray.asp
From the Guardian On the first anniversary of Spalding Gray's disappearance, Gaby Wood tells his final story. On the night of 10 January 2004, Spalding Gray disappeared. http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1379764,00.html
May 28th, 2004 - Larry King has just released a book called Remember Me When I'm Gone (Doubleday 2004). It is a collection of epithaphs by famous people. Spalding had written the following: (quote will be removed by request of publisher): "Spalding Gray was born in 1941 in Providence, Road Island. He was a loving and devoted father to his two sons, Forrest and Theo, and his stepdaughter, Marissa Maier. He loved and cherished his wife, Kathleen Russo. Most of all, Spalding will be remembered for his autobiographical monologues at which he would sit on stage at a table with a glass of water and talk for more than an hour and a half, telling true stories from his life. He was like a talking everyman because his life, although a little eccentric, was not that different from all of ours. Only he would be able to capture in such vivid detail, and highlight it with such humor, that it caused audiences both to laugh and relate. Spalding Gray was an American original and the "Talking Man" will be dearly missed.
January 17, 04 : I first found Spalding when he was on Letterman (in 84) flogging his book Sex and Death to Age 14. I immediately went out and bought it and have been buying everything since. So perhaps I wasn't the first Spud head, but I'd like to think I was one of the first. He spoke my language, and my heart and mind both understood.
As I write this, Spalding is still missing and even in New York he is considered missing after being gone the required 7 days. There has been a flurry of misinformation that must have been upsetting to Kathie and his/her family. The best write up I have read so far is: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=482019 I will not refer to Spalding in the past and I never will. He is always present in what I write myself and he is always in my heart...When I had just finished this web page and just phoned Seattle for a front row seat for his performance in March, my spouse got me out of bed and said 'CNN just reported that Spalding is missing'...And yet, now I've decided to put this up on the web because as I said, Spalding Lives (in same voice as Che Lives)...
Spud... please call home...
January 17th, 2004 - John Boland
