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'''Spalding Gray''' (June 5, 1941 – {{Circa|January 11, 2004}}) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and [[performance artist]]. He is best known for the autobiographical [[One-person show|monologues]] that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors.
Theater critics [[John A. Willis|John Willis]] and Ben Hodges called Gray's monologues "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|WASP]], quiet mania."<ref>[[John A. Willis|Willis, John]]; Hodges, Ben (2006). ''Theatre World: Volume 60''. [[Hal Leonard Corporation]].</ref>{{rp|316}} Gray achieved renown for his monologue ''[[Swimming to Cambodia]]'', which he adapted as a 1987 film in which he starred; it was directed by [[Jonathan Demme]]. Other of his monologues that he adapted for film were ''[[Monster in a Box]]'' (1991), directed by [[Nick Broomfield]], and ''[[Gray's Anatomy (film)|Gray's Anatomy]]'' (1996), directed by [[Steven Soderbergh]].
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