Gray de Young is a performance artist and writer who performs in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Southwest.
A performer for nearly 2 decades, Gray draws on her background of improv, dance, gymnastics, linguistics, creative writing, and world travel to explore the intersection of identity, culture and spirituality.
In her fast-paced one woman show, “BURST” (Directed by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein; opened 2009 in Santa Fe), Gray uses her own experience with life in San Francisco, being diagnosed Bipolar 2, and the death of a family member, to explore how losses in life can be divine catalysts for us to embark upon the oldest journey of all–the journey to True Self. Because sometimes sanity can come to us from the craziest of places…
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Gray also has repeat performances with Mortified SF, appeared in “Joy of Lex,” a documentary on language for The Discovery Channel, and has had several poetry readings in Northern California.
She has a BA from University of California, Berkeley, in both Linguistics and Mass Communications, and has studied writing with Natalie Goldberg; and performance with Action Theater™ senior teacher Owen Walker; Pan Theater; and ACT San Francisco.
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“She is not an ordinary human being… She has the spunk of Punky Brewster, the mind of General Patton, and the awkward neuroticism of Woody Allen. She is lively, honest — full of piss and vinegar.” –Scott Lifton, producer of Mortified SF