Broadway BUZZ

Amber Gray has originated roles in numerous productions including: Elmire in Lucas Hnath’s Tartuffe at NYTW, Mrs. Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time at Arena Stage; Carina in Jonathan Spector’s rewritten Eureka Day on Broadway (Drama League Nom, Tony for Best Revival); Claudia in Here We Are, Sondheim's final musical, at The Shed; Persephone in Hadestown at NYTW (Lortel Nom), The Citadel (Sterling Award), The National, and on Broadway (Drama League, Chita Rivera, and Tony Noms.  Outer Critics Circle, Grammy, and Tony for Best Musical Awards); Hélène in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 at Ars Nova, Kazino, and on Broadway (Theatre World Award); Laurey in Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! at Bard SummerScape; and Zoe in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon at PS 122, Soho Rep, and TFANA (Obie).  Other theatre gems include The Oyster Radio Hour on Little Island, Rob Ashford’s Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris in Tangier, Sam Gold’s Macbeth on Broadway (AEA’s St. Clair Bayfield Award), and Taylor Mac’s A 24 Decade History of Popular Music at NYLA/Under the Radar and BRIC's Celebrate Brooklyn! (Pulitzer Prize Finalist).  Gray is a company member of The TEAM and has codeveloped and performed in their Mission Drift, Primer for a Failed Superpower, Reconstruction, and the upcoming Mom Dance Practice.  Gray is a longtime member of radical performance community Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir (Neil Young’s Love Earth Tour opener and new album The Sun is a Star that Keeps Me Warm).  Other New Albums include Warriors and Kill the Whale.  TV: Long Bright River, Barry Jenkins' Underground Railroad, Broadway cult favorites Submissions Only and The Gilded Age, and Ben Stiller's Escape at Dannemora. Film: Walden: Life in the Woods, Where There’s Smoke, Master, the upcoming Heartworm, Bunny Boi and the Submission, and Hadestown Live. MFA: NYU.