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Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray, American writer, monologuist, and actor, was a storyteller who used his own life experiences for a series of monologues, including his most famous, Swimming to Cambodia, as well as such others as Monster in a Box and Gray’s Anatomy. He also appeared in more than 30 movies, including The Killing Fields (1984), Beaches (1988), and Beyond Rangoon (1995), and on Broadway in Our Town (1988) and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2000). Spalding also developed works through Center Theatre Group's Taper, Too.

The following letter is excerpted from Reflections, The Taper at Twenty, a publication produced by Center Theatre Group in recognition of the Mark Taper Forum’s 20th Anniversary. In this section, Spalding Gray reflects on his time developing Swimming to Cambodia through Taper, Too. Taper, Too launched in 1983 at the John Anson Ford Theatre in Hol...

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