Personally and professionally, Peter Gray considers himself an equal cross of Oscar Wilde, Henry David Thoreau, and the entire cast of The Muppets. He crafts spirited and spiritual queer epics to disrupt the status quo with perspicacious gusto and intrigue. Raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Peter’s projects have taken him all over the world and been recognized by institutions such as Yaddo, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and d’arts et de reves.
As a MacDowell Fellow, Peter is creating a series of modern day closet dramas designed to be read aloud at home. His play Salem: Post-Mortem was begun in residence at Monson Arts then broadcast virtually with the Muse Collective in October 2020 to raise money for the Audre Lorde Project. With performer Joana Knezevic, he has created a bubble gum fantasia of body positivity, I Am Not Your Barbie, which premiered in Belgrade in May 2022. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Yale University, and received a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant to work on his first novel. He recently finished a Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany.