JOHN GRAY is a writer-composer-performer for stage, TV, film, radio and print. He is best-known for his stage musicals and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC TV's The Journal, as well as an author, speaker and social critic on cultural-political issues.

Born in Ottawa and raised in Nova Scotia, John obtained a B.A. at Mount Allison University, and an M.A. at The University of British Columbia, where he founded Tamahnous Theatre, and served as Director from 1971-74. He then joined Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, where he began writing and composing for the stage.

In 1978 he wrote and composed (with Eric Peterson) Billy Bishop Goes to War, which appeared on Broadway in New York City in 1980 (produced by Mike Nichols), in London's West End, and in over 150 independent productions in Canada and the U.S. Billy Bishop appeared on television in a BBC-CBC co-production, and in a German version, Billy Bishop Steig Auf. Billy Bishop Goes to War was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama in 1983; the Chalmer's Canadian Play Award in 1982; and, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award in 1981.

John has written and composed six other musicals including 18 Wheels, Rock and Roll, Don Messer's Jubilee, Health, and Amelia. Rock and Roll won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1982, and became an award-winning feature video entitled King of Friday Night.

His published works include I Love Mom: An Irreverent History of the Tattoo (Key Porter Books), Lost In North America: The Imaginary Canadian in the American Dream (Talonbooks) and Dazzled (Irwin Publishing). John's most recent musical is TheTree.TheTower.TheFlood, three Bible stories for the age of information, commissioned by CBC Radio Drama for production in 1995-96.

John Gray lives in Vancouver with his wife Beverlee and their two boys, Zachary and Ezra.