GRAY ROBERT BROWN
Gray Robert Brown is an emerging writer.
The pitch that became his first full-length play, Gore, earned him a place on the longlist for the Old Vic New Voices 12 in 2017; the finished play was longlisted for the 2017 Papatango Prize. His next play, The Prime of Ms Nicola Sturgeon was also longlisted by the same award in 2019 and shortlisted at the Traverse Theatre.
His short play An Island Off Ireland was staged by Full Disclosure’s Xposed at the Southwark Playhouse in February 2022, and a full-length version was shortlisted by the Papatango Prize and longlisted by BOLD and Theatre 503 - under a new title, Sugar. Gray subsequently developed Sugar as a TV sitcom spec.
A play for my mother, his fourth play, was longlisted by the Theatre 503 International Playwriting Prize 2023 and shortlisted by the Traverse Breakthrough Writers In Residence scheme 2022. The Red Fox is his fifth play and saw him shortlisted for the Oxford Playhouse Playmaker scheme 2024. The Red Fox received a rehearsed reading at the Old Red Lion for Fresh Fest in January 2024, and at the Place Bedford in October 2024.
Gray wrote two short plays in 2024, Palace Play and The Visitors. Palace Play was selected to be read at the Water Rats Page 2 Stage London in Autumn 2024. How to Spot a Possible Homo is his most recent full-length play, completed in 2025.
Gray contributed a story for the Ladybird Stories for Pride audio collection, "Boing! Boing!", which was published on Audible in May 2024 and Yoto in June 2024.
In Summer 2022, he presented a self-written academic paper titled “Famous Last Words: Agatha Christie’s Curtain and Sleeping Murder” at the Golden Age of Crime Conference at Bournemouth University. He presented his second paper, “'Cruelty mixed with camp': the parallel lives and works of Agatha Christie and Muriel Spark”, at the Mysterious Mrs Christie Conference at the University of Exeter in August 2023, and online for Romancing the Gothic in October 2023.
His first podcast, The Swinging Christies, with Dr Mark Aldridge, about Agatha Christie in the 1960s, launched to great acclaim in January 2024. Their second podcast as "Christie Time" launched in March 2026, and is titled Westmapod. Both podcasts come recommended by the Radio Times! Gray was part of the research team behind the BBC Maestro writing course with Agatha Christie, as featured in the New York Times.
Gray has co-authored a book based on the podcast, with Mark Aldridge: The Swinging Christies: How Agatha Christie Conquered the 1960s. The book is to be published by Christie's publisher HarperCollins, and will be released in early 2027. It is available to pre-order now!