Renée Shafransky collaborated with Spalding Gray on a number of the latter’s monologues, including “Swimming to Cambodia,” “Monster in a Box,” and “Gray’s Anatomy.” In this interview, conducted in New York in March 2012, she discusses their process.
The following is actual footage of Spalding Gray’s macular surgery in the early 1990s. It is presented as it was filmed, without sound.
One of Spalding Gray’s signature monologues, “A Personal History of the American Theater” was first presented on November 7, 1980, at the Performing Garage in New York. In 1982, Gray performed the piece again, as part of an eight-week retrospective put on by the Wooster Group. This videotape reco...
