About Amlin Gray

Born in New York City in 1946, Amlin Gray was drafted in 1966. A conscientious objector, he served as a medic in Vietnam. Trained as an actor after his army discharge, by the early 1970s Gray had taken up playwriting; his first two plays were presented at the O’Neill Theater Center in 1974 and 1976. He became a resident playwright at Milwaukee Repertory Theater in 1977, since which time 13 of his original plays, adaptations and translations have first been seen there. These include Kingdom Come, Zones of the Spirit and, most recently, an adaptation of Christmas Carol. Commissioned by Milwaukee’s Theatre X, The Fantod was cited by the American Theatre Critics Association as one of nine outstanding new plays produced in regional theatre during the 1978-79 season. Gray has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller and National Endowment for the Arts grants, and is a 1985 McKnight Fellow.