ORNETTE Press Kit.8.7.2012 - Shirley Clarke

Kathelin Hoffman Gray, Producer Kathelin Hoffman Gray (on Twitter as @Kathelin) is a producer and director of cultural, ecological and scientific projects. She has had an accomplished career in theater, with forays into film, dance, music and literature. At the age of 18, she co-­‐founded the Theatre of All Possibilities, which toured internationally for 20 years. She has produced and directed countless plays, and has worked to extend the role and manifestation of the artist in society, since her beginnings as a dancer at San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury. Gray has made her mark on numerous genres and mediums. She has founded a publishing house, record label, and numerous arts centers. She is also the Managing Director of Ecotechnics Maritime. Its research vessel, the Heraclitus, has been exploring the origins and futures of human cultures — sailing the oceans, coral reefs, rives lakes and estuaries since 1975. Currently, she is working on Godfrey Reggio’s newest film and a “quantum gravity” art piece with physicist Fotini Markoupolou. One tribute to her is particularly noteworthy: Ornette Coleman’s composition, Kathelin Gray that is now a standard classic among jazz musicians. "Kathelin Gray’s life embraces and redefines the meaning of the artistic. A kindling spirit in the Sixties’ Haight Ashbury, Gray’s ardent intelligence has since contributed to bodies of knowledge concerning group dynamics, ancient and contemporary cultural expression and the exploration of inner and outer space. With theater as a conceptual framework, her experimentation with the emotional, intellectual and physical realms of human experience has left its mark around the planet. Playwright, director, actress, dancer, musician and composer; founder of a theater company, publishing house, record label and several performing arts centers, Gray’s multifarious collaborations reconfigured the territory of the avant-garde. 24