John Gray

John Gray is an award-winning author, screenwriter, composer and performer for stage, tv, film, radio and print. He is best known for the seven musicals which he wrote and composed, and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC Television’s The Journal. Billy Bishop Goes To War, written in 1978, appeared on Broadway, at the Edinburgh Festival and in London’s West End. For four consecutive years it was the most produced show in the U.S.A. It has had over 150 productions in Canada and the USA, received many national and international awards, and has been translated into French, Danish and German. 18 Wheels received over 50 productions in Canada and Rock and Roll was made into an award-winning feature-length video entitled The King of Friday Night. Mr. Gray also wrote the screenplay for the movie Kootenai Brown and has published two books. He was a co-founder of Vancouver’s Tamahnous Theatre.