Esquire has a story written by the person who discovered Spalding Gray's body which ends with this quote from Gray's wife, Kathleen Russo: "No, please, do whatever you like. You don't have to be tasteful. This is Spalding Gray. All he ever talked about was his own death." The 28-year old internet developer, Robin Snead, was with a friend at the Brooklyn waterfront in March 2004 and noticed "some feet poking out from under the......

Three years after his death, Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell has opened at Minetta Lane Theater. Running through May 13th, the performance features five actors surrounded by stacks of marble notebooks, similar to those Gray filled in his lifetime (up to 300). Selections from "Swimming to Cambodia," "Monster in a Box" and other monologues are read, but perhaps more insightful and often eerie are his unpublished works. From his last entry (a tape recording......

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Spalding Gray, who committed suicide in 2004, was a beloved fixture of the downtown theatre scene. He cofounded the Wooster Group in 1977 and turned extraordinarily personal monologue performances into a hypnotizing experience for audiences. One of these, Swimming to Cambodia, became a movie filmed by Jonathan Demme and released in 1987, and it propelled his fame beyond the experimental off-Broadway scene (it’s also just been reissued as a book). But it was his......

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Confirmation of Spalding Gray's death has saddened many, but, unfortunately, it seemed that a body would be recovered at some point, given his past history of suicide attempts. While family believes the writer-actor jumped from the Staten Island Ferry, Newsday reports that police believe he jumped from the "Manhattan, Williamsburg or Brooklyn Bridge because of where his body washed up." Another sad thing is the Gray's wife, Kathleen Russo, found out about the body that......

Updated: The body recovered earlier this morning is Spalding Gray's. Earlier story: A body found in the East River will be autopsied today. Recovered yesterday, police wonder if it might be the body of Spalding Gray, writer-actor, who has been missing since January. He was last seen on the Staten Island Ferry, and people worry that he may have jumped. While the body's face is badly decomposed, police say it is a white man's body......

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Spalding Gray was reportedly spotted on the Staten Island Ferry the night he supposedly disappeared. Gray had been spotted on the ferry the night before. Gray's family was told someone spotted him at a restaurant: Sara Vass, a family friend, said the family had heard from a retired police detective who described seeing Mr. Gray at a diner in Orange County, N.Y., after he was reported missing. "His description of Spalding was on the money,''......

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Friends and family of Spalding Gray fear he is dead, jumping from a Staten Island Ferry. The Post reports that Gray, who has a history of depression, did not take much any credit cards, a wallet or any medication with him, wherever he may have went. Last seen on Friday, last heard from on Saturday afternoon, and reported missing on Sunday, Gray was reportedly seen on the S.I. Ferry on Friday, sparking suicide concerns. Gray......

Maybe because Gothamist has seen Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy, we feel the disappearance of Spalding Gray is sad. Gray's wife reported him missing, and people are worried since he has a history of depression and attempting suicide. Sometimes called the WASP Woody Allen, Gray is a writer, actor, and monologuist. His brother, Rockwell Gray, a professor at Washington University, tells the Times, "I wouldn't say he was in a......