Project Description:
Leo, a struggling voice over artist, is overjoyed to sign an exclusive contract with the hottest video game company around. But he soon discovers his hiring was no accident; the companyās founder, Jess Bean, is a former classmate who was viciously bullied by Leo back in middle school for being gay. Now, as Jess coaches Leo through recording the noises for a gay sex game heās developing, Jess is ready to educate his former bully on the intricacies of gay sex and what it means to be a real man.
As their dark role play progresses, both men are shocked at the depths of their own pain, fear of intimacy, and desperation to maintain control at all costs. More simmers beneath their cavalier facades than either could have dreamed. In this darkly comic, psychologically twisted, and deviously sexy examination of queer intimacy, Gay Sex Sounds is an audioplay that brashly exposes and celebrates the hidden mysteries of gay sex, subverts power structures, and concocts a thrilling game of cat and mouse where anyone could come out on topā¦
Bios:
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, Peterās projects have taken him all over the world and been recognized by institutions such as Yaddo, the Sewanee Writersā Conference, and dāarts 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.