Actor Spalding Gray was confirmed dead today, two months after his wife reported him missing. His body was recovered from the East River near Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He was 62 years old.
A practiced storyteller, Gray became famous for his monologues. Sitting behind a desk with a glass of water and his notebook, he would transform his life experiences into a performed autobiography.
In this radio diary, James Leveratte, a professor in the department of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at Yale School of Drama and a longtime friend of Spalding Gray, remembers the genius of Spalding Gray’s monologues.
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