THE MADNESS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE: A LOVE STORY
Oak Park Festival Theatre, 2019
“Christian Gray’s Poe has a more manic edge…Gray’s interpretation flirts with hysteria, but it also conjures forth the raw terror of losing everything he loves, and there are moments when Gray’s feverish eyes, brimming with tears, bore through the audience, asking questions about the caprices of fate which none can answer”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“What impressed me about director Skyler Schrempp’s intimate, emotional production is how thoroughly it reveals not only madness born of grief and love, but also madness born of obsession, fear, and artistic impulse….His jacket’s frayed hem and lapel suggest Poe’s financial struggles, but the greater concern is the unfathomable sadness evident in Gray’s haunted expression and emotionally fraught performance. The mania that surfaces during Gray’s resounding opening recitation of ‘The Bells’ gives way to melancholy in ‘The Raven,’ whose stanzas link the scenes. By the final moments, when Gray’s broken Poe whispers the elegiac ‘Anabell Lee,’ he is a man permanently shrouded in despair. It’s an affecting conclusion to the tautly paced Madness…While Schrempp’s direction keeps emotions close to the surface, the sincerity of her cast keeps melodrama in check. Case in point: the single tear that trails down Gray’s cheek as he watches his wife recount their love affair. In any other production, that might come across as corny. Here it’s wrenching confirmation of insurmountable loss and the madness it evokes”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“Christian Gray is especially sublime as Poe. Even when he’s declaiming poetry as well known as ‘The Bells,’ he rings out new sounds out of the familiar stanzas”
-Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader (Highly Recommended)
“The acting is superb. Christian Gray plays the master of the macabre in brilliant fashion – always gripping in his focus”
-Mary Kroeck, New City (Highly Recommended), (Top 5 Shows)
“Christian Gray, who reprises the role of Poe, is an extraordinary actor and is allowed to cut loose in this play to give us the performance of a lifetime. The intensity and passion Gray gives to the role is authentic and would be tough to match by any other actor. Almost seemingly born for this role, Gray is a pleasure to behold in each and every scene, the audience getting their first taste of his command in the play’s opening act that revolves around Poe’s ‘The Bells’…Christian Gray is a force. Gray’s performance alone is worth the price of admission – easily”
-Ken Payne, Buzz News (Highly Recommended)
JEEVES TAKES A BOW
First Folio Theatre 2013
“Jeeves Takes a Bow reunites Christian Gray as the dim-witted Bertie Wooster with Jim McCance as the wise but deferential Jeeves, and their ease with one another makes for perfect comic timing in this soufflé of a show…What you’re observing is the work of absolutely flawless clowns…Jeeves Takes a Bow is the best of the Jeeves shows that First Folio has done, and that’s really saying something”
-Kelly Kleiman, WBEZ Radio (Critic’s Pick)
“By this time, director Alison C. Vesely’s staging and the rock-solid trio at the heart of these gossamer-and champagne comedies – Christian Gray’s Bertie, Jim McCance’s Jeeves, and Kevin McKillip as the Clueless-Friend-with-Silly-Nickname-Du-Jour – run as smoothly as a vintage Rolls…Just watching Gray and McKillip engage in an arms-length slap fight offers a mini-master class in precisely calibrated physical comedy”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars), (Top 5 Shows of the Year)
“Artistic Director Alison C. Vesely and the impeccable trio of Jim McCance, Christian Gray, and Kevin McKillip reunite for Jeeves Takes a Bow, an enjoyable midwinter romp…The farce unfolds in the posh Manhattan apartment (sumptuously designed by Angela Miller) of Bertie Wooster (a slightly daffy, always endearing Gray)…All in all, First Folio’s production runs like a well-oiled machine, powered by pros who have made Wodehouse’s characters their own”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“To make a play of this type work, it takes actors who are skilled in comic timing and very agile as there is a great deal of stumbling, chasing, and movement that must be timed to perfection. These actors truly have it down…Bertie Wooster (deftly handled by Christian Gray)”
-Alan Bresloff, Around the Town Chicago (Highly Recommended)
“A zany romp…the physical comedy especially hilarious from Binky (Kevin McKillip) and Bertie (Christian Gray). Who could recognize Gray switching from Poe (The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe) to the ne’er-do-well British Bertie – extremely honed acting indeed for both roles with only very minor makeup changes from one to the other…We need more Jeeves!”
-Margaret Eva, ChicagoCritic.com (Highly Recommended)
DR. SEWARD’S DRACULA
First Folio Theatre, 2016
“It’s a production marked by compassion and profound sorrow, emotions Gray expertly conveys. His Seward is tormented, emotionally frayed, mentally spent. But it is not a caricature of a madman. Gray’s is a complex performance of an essentially decent man undone by his own failure and his unbearable reality”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald (3 out of 4 Stars)
“Ably directed by Alison C. Vesely, this First Folio production is packed with first-rate performers, especially Christian Gray, who displays remarkable range as Seward. This is one of those rare thrillers that lives up to its promise, grabbing our attention in its first moments and not letting go until the heart-stopping ending”
-Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader (Highly Recommended)
“Christian Gray is utterly masterful in his portrayal of the deeply disturbed physician”
-Andy Argyrakis, Chicago Concert Reviews (Highly Recommended)
“Gothic and gripping…If you love scary psychological stories, this production will not disappoint. Christian Gray, who has played a mysterious, possibly mad Edgar Allan Poe several times in First Folio’s signature Halloween-time offering, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe, brings his best to the role of Dr. Seward, with an always convincing British accent”
-Crista Zivanovic, NWI Times (Highly Recommended)
“Christian Gray is thoroughly gripping as Dr. Seward, capturing the audience for good in just the play’s first scene. He never lets go of that grip. One of the finest actors in the Chicagoland theatre scene, Gray is able to tackle such a role in a way that most cannot…Gray’s performance is reason alone to see this play”
-Ken Payne, Buzz News (Highly Recommended)
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
First Folio Theatre, 2014
“As is true in nearly all of Shakespeare’s brightest comedies, the women tend to trump the men for quickness of wit. The sputtering Frenchman Dr. Caius (Christian Gray in full-on Inspector Clouseau mode)”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 out of 4 Stars)
“Also in pursuit is Caius, a fussy French doctor played by the nimble Christian Gray, whose prancing – during an over-the-top duel with Robert Allan Smith’s cheese-loving Welsh cleric Sir Hugh – amuses almost as much as his silly French accent”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald (3 out of 4 Stars)
“Meanwhile, Mrs. Page’s eligible heiress daughter, Anne (Meg Warner) is beset with three suitors…the French court doctor Caius (a superbly bungling Christian Gray)”
-Michael Horn, Around the Town Chicago (3 out of 4 Stars)
“Christian Gray presents a sight to see as a very unique French doctor”
-Margaret Eva, ChicagoCritic.com (Highly Recommended)
“Christian Gray’s almost Inspector Clouseau-like turn as the French physician Caius had me giggling the next day. Watch for his affectation each time he mentions his beloved (in his own mind) Ann Page”
-Robin Kuss, Splash Magazine (Highly Recommended)
A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN
First Folio Theatre, 2009
“Christian Gray plays Jim Tyrone – the landlord who Josie loves and Phil fears will sell them out – with a combination of complacence and self-loathing. Spiraling downward spiral, his finances faltering like his Broadway career, he remains a stylish, savvy, self-aware drunk who perceives all too clearly who Josie really is and his inability to be the man she deserves…Movingly acted by Grennan and Gray, the second act revelation between soul mates Josie and Jim offers about as rich an emotional payoff as I’ve seen on stage this year…There’s never a false note from this cast”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald (4 out of 4 Stars), (Best Shows of the Year)
“As James, Christian Gray goes deep, embodying the bone-weary desolation of a man who has seen ‘too many dawns creeping over too many dirty window sills.’ His ultimate confession to Josie – the tale of a train ride defined by debauchery and death – is a requiem for the living, an elegy for a man inalterably stunted by self-loathing and self-destruction”
-Catey Sullivan, Chicago Sun-Times (Highly Recommended)
“Gray’s Tyrone performs his debonair soused roue routine to cover up his overwhelming filial guilt. When these two damaged souls take the huge step of letting down their emotional guards in the second act, that sagging front porch becomes a sacred temple”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“Christian Gray long ago proved himself a dependable comic actor, equally capable of finding the funny in Shaw, Shakespeare, and Wodehouse. But he reveals unsuspected depth and range playing the tortured, alcoholic Broadway swell Jim Tyrone…flawlessly executed”
-Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader (Highly Recommended), (Critic’s Choice)
“A Moon for the Misbegotten is the story of Josie Hogan (Erin Noel Grennan in a tremendous performance) – an ungainly daughter of an impoverished sharecropper whose love for alcoholic Jim Tyrone (Christian Gray in his finest performance to date) comes to a head one long summer night…Christian Gray and Erin Noel Grennan produce deep-seeded emotions and sparks of pure love as the effects of loneliness, guilt, longing, love, and sex are amplified through drink and personal desperation…This is a great play, masterfully directed by Alison C. Vesely, with three of the finest performances by Larry Neumann, Jr., Erin Noel Grennan, and Christian Gray that I’ve seen on stage in many a moon! O’Neill would be proud of this production”
-Tom Williams, ChicagoCritic.com (Highly Recommended), (Must-See)
ROMEO AND JULIET
First Folio Theatre, 2011
“The kind of Romeo and Juliet production Bard buffs should salivate over…a knockout cast, particularly Gray’s devilish, drug-addled Mercutio”
-Ryan Dolley, Time Out Chicago (4 out of 5 Stars)
“There have been a brace of Romeos wooing a spate of Juliets this year on Chicago stages, but Nick Sandys’ smart and stylish production might be the best of the lot…Christian Gray’s stellar rendition of Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech makes a strong case for viewing it as the hallucinatory aftereffect of some serious recreational opium eating – and his bad leg recalls Byron’s club foot“
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“Taunts turn vicious and horseplay turns deadly after Luke Couzens’ snappish Tybalt (a bully ready for a fight) engages Christian Gray’s sardonic Mercutio (a Byronesque provacateur eager to incite one)…In this slightly menacing, clubfooted incarnation, Gray’s glib Mercutio is not that far removed from the ‘rudely stamped,’ silver-tongued seducer, Richard…Sandys imprints the classic in other ways. There’s the homoerotic subtext that animates the exchanges between Mercutio and Tybalt, which is confirmed by the position of the dead bodies. There’s the copious use of controlled substances…that culminates in Gray’s jittery, frenetic Queen Mab speech, which suggests the drug-addled ramblings of an addict. Sandys could have played it safe with this well-known tragedy. But where would be the fun in that?”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“What does work here, and beautifully so, is the hypnotic sense of menace Gray brings to Mercutio’s exquisite Queen Mab speech. The long passage is both an eerie description of dreams and a twisted mirror on the play itself, going from light to dark as Mercutio’s descriptions of faeries and moonshine cede to those of violent death and misfortune. It’s a creepy, ominous, and breathtakingly gorgeous bit of poetry, and Gray’s delivery of it is transfixing”
-Catey Sullivan, Chicago Sun-Times
“Christian Gray, better known for playing the witless Bertie Wooster in the company’s P. G. Wodehouse adaptations, makes an especially haunting Mercutio”
-Kelly Kleiman, WBEZ Radio (Critic’s Pick)
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Oak Park Festival Theatre, 2011
“The performances by Palko and Gray (whose balance of acid and anguish makes him the most compelling Tom Wingfield this reviewer has yet seen) bring out the central tragedy of Williams’ play and life”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 out of 4 Stars)
“In Gray’s depiction of Williams’ autobiographical alter-ego, we get a desolate magician, a young man who knows that even his deftest sleight-of-hand will not make the devils that torment him vanish…What’s really striking about this Glass Menagerie is how thoroughly grounded it is in Gray’s portrayal of a man about to explode with a force that will propel him from his family forever”
-Catey Sullivan, Chicago Sun-Times (Recommended)
“Christian Gray, as her son and narrator, is dynamic…This is the best live performance of The Glass Menagerie that we have yet to see”
-Ed Vincent, Oak Park Journal (4 out of 4 Stars)
First Folio Theatre, 2008
JEEVES INTERVENES
“A champagne cocktail of a show…popping with pitch-perfect performances…Bertie (Christian Gray in impeccable upper-class-twit form)”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“If any comedy is worth braving sub-zero temperatures it’s First Folio Theatre’s sparkling Jeeves Intervenes…Bertie (the genial, charmingly foppish Gray)”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“Christian Gray as Bertie Wooster, the endearing aristocratic bumbler he so expertly played in First Folio’s winter production of Jeeves Intervenes”
–Daily Herald (Best Shows of the Year)
“Bertie Wooster (Christian Gray at his bumbling funniest)”
-Tom Williams, ChicagoCritic.com (Highly Recommended), (Must-See)
First Folio Theatre, 2010
JEEVES IN BLOOM
“Christian Gray once again in foppish, devil-may-care fettle as Bertie”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“Bertie Wooster (the fabulous Christian Gray)”
-Tom Williams, ChicagoCritic.com (Highly Recommended), (Must-See)
“The suave, but addle-brained Bertie Wooster, as played to droll perfection by Christian Gray”
-Joe Stead, Chicago Stage Style (4 out of 4 Stars)
First Folio Theatre, 2016
JEEVES AT SEA
“Christian Gray’s Bertie and Jim McCance’s Jeeves still make for a delicious comic pairing”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune (3 out of 4 Stars)
“Most people remember infamous and classic comedy duos such as Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, and Martin & Lewis. Well, within the Chicagoland area, McCance & Gray (a.k.a. Wooster and Jeeves) are unquestionably a perfect comedic duo who combine deadpan delivery with priceless reactions and crackerjack facial contortions leaving the audiences roaring with laughter”
-Luke Simone, Chicago Stage Standard (4 out of 4 Stars)
“Christian Gray and Jim McCance pair up once again for another Jeeves adventure, this time in Margaret Raether’s latest adaption from the stories of P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves at Sea. Gray, who was simply tremendous in his last First Folio appearance in The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe, this time plays the lovable, but somewhat dim-witted Bertie who has come to rely on the wisdom of his ever-faithful manservant Jeeves (McCance), who faithfully provides sound advice never daring to crack the slightest of smiles. Paired to perfection, modestly said, McCance and Gray are nothing less than terrific together”
-Ken Payne, Buzz News (Highly Recommended)
JEEVES SAVES THE DAY
First Folio Theatre, 2020
“After catching the opening night performance of First Folio’s shared world premiere of Jeeves Saves the Day, I regret missing Margaret Raether’s previous four stage adaptations…Amazingly, First Folio has retained the same two men for each production. Thus, longtime First Folio fans can look forward to a continuity of ‘episodes’ while watching the animated Christian Gray return as Bertie Wooster and the droll Jim McCance inhabit his smart, ever-loyal valet Jeeves…Director Joe Foust and his game cast have a field day playing up the exaggerated emotions and near slapstick humor in Raether’s clever script”
-Scott C. Morgan, Daily Herald (3 out of 4 Stars)
“It helps that this terrain is as comfortable for the suburban theater as Bertie Wooster’s well-worn gray flannels…Christian Gray and Jim McCance, who have played Bertie and Jeeves in each of the previous chapters, are by now thoroughly adept at conveying the polar-opposite temperaments that drive much of the comedy here…their reactions – especially Gray’s – add texture and wit to the proceedings. Through his hangover haze (at one point, Bertie moans that he feels ‘like something the Pure Food Committee has rejected’), we see glimpses of Gray’s devil-may-care aristocrat realizing that Egbert is what he might have been, had he not had the protections provided by Jeeves”
-Kerry Reid, Chicago Reader (Highly Recommended)
“Bertie is played by veteran actor and Chicago favorite Christian Gray. Gray is as dependable as it gets and delivers a remarkable performance once again. This is McCance’s and Gray’s fifth time performing together as the comical pair and their chemistry couldn’t be better…With an arsenal of such talent at his disposal, Director Joe Foust impeccably places all the pieces together to give us an engaging production that is entertaining from the word ‘Go’ “
-Ken Payne, Buzz News (Highly Recommended)
YOU NEVER CAN TELL
“The play opens with a slightly befuddled Valentine, played with muddled perfection by the handsome, talented Christian Gray…Gray’s hysterically ardent Valentine easily dominates his every scene”
-Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre Review (Highly Recommended)
“Meanwhile, proudly rational and opposed to the thralldom of marriage, proto-feminist Gloria finds herself ambushed into romance with Valentine (Christian Gray, consummately complex), an eloquent dentist and inveterate charmer whose experience in love Gloria both resents and requires”
-Lawrence Bommer, Stage and Cinema (Highly Recommended)
“As played by the marvelous Christian Gray, the Valentine-Gloria scenes are the most entertaining male-female scenes you are apt to see in Chicago. They echo Beatrice and Benedick, Mirabell and Millament, and foreshadow the later Jack Tanner and Ann Whitfield encounters in Man and Superman”
-Paul Kuritz, Theater and Film (4 out of 5 Stars)
ROUGH CROSSING
“Inspired lunacy… Consider, if you will, the sight of matinee idol Ivor Fish (Christian Gray in Impossibly Handsome Man Mode), ascot tied at a just the proper jaunty angle, earnestly bellowing to his lady love that ‘You have plucked me out of your life like an olive out of a dashed martini’”
-Catey Sullivan, Chicago Sun-Times (Highly Recommended)
“There’s a touch of pathos…to Gray’s blow-dried former leading man on the downside of his career”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
“Props go particularly to Christian Gray’s Ivor, who neatly captures the complexity, vanity, and confusion of the hammy actor”
-Dan Zeff, Chicagoland Theater Reviews
ARMS AND THE MAN
“Actors who know how to bring a character to life simply and elegantly and make Shaw’s dialogue sing. Jhenai Mootz and Christian Gray crackle as the leads in Shaw’s eccentric romance”
-Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader (Highly Recommended)
“Christian Gray (Bluntschli) ends the show in tears. Gray is beautifully swept up in the romantic moment and weeps. It’s Gray’s and the others’ level of character interpretation that pushes Arms and the Man away from ‘staged reading’ and up to the spectrum of ‘play’ “
-Katy Walsh, Chicago Theater Beat (3 out of 4 Stars)
“It is Christian Gray’s sweetly endearing chocolate soldier, Captain Bluntschli, who really brings Shaw’s dry wit and humor to life”
-Colin Douglas, Centerstage (Highly Recommended)
ShawChicago, 2012
ANDROCLES AND THE LION
“This traditional tale is entertaining even in a minimal, staged reading approach. The actors were quite funny, particularly Christian Gray as Androcles”
-Darcy Rose Coussens, Chicago Theatre Review
“The animated Christian Gray (Androcles) anchors a pro-lion movement. Gray hits the comedic moments as an animal-loving, hen-pecked husband”
-Katy Walsh, Chicago Theater Beat
“The production shows what actors can do with an excellent script. Of the many fine performances, I especially liked the passion of Edward Stevens as Ferrovius, Christian Gray as Androcles, and Jack Hickey who even made the lion memorable”
-Frank West, Irish American News
ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES and PERESTROIKA
MILLENNIUM APPROACHES: “We first meet lovers Prior Walter (a tenderly compelling Christian Gray)”
THREE SISTERS
“Intensely satisfying…The newly arrived Commander, Vershinin, given marvelous life by Christian Gray, knew the family years ago in Moscow, but seems weighed down by his own lot in life”
-Alan Sherrod, Arts Knoxville
WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS
“Christian Gray is powerful as John Shand”
-Alan Bresloff, Chicago Stage Style (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
CANDIDA
“The target of his anger, Christian Gray (Eugene) plays the young confessor of love with nervous energy and a hint of evil intent. Gray provides a complex version of the love opponent with poetic horrors”
-Katy Walsh, Chicago Theater Beat (3 out of 4 Stars)
LUTE SONG
“Christian Gray is stalwart as the Husband (Tsai-Yong), a commoner who becomes a chief magistrate”
-Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Reader (Highly Recommended), (Critic’s Choice)
MAJOR BARBARA
“Other strong performances come from…accomplished actor Christian Gray, practically unrecognizable as a down-on-his-luck cockney philosopher, Bill Walker”
-Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre Review (Recommended)
THE MILLIONAIRESS
“Epifania is one of the richest women in the world…She also has an athlete husband, Alaistair (Christian Gray, a perfect English biscuit), a rather boring and ordinarily mild-mannered man who punches her back to her senses when she gets out of hand”
-Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times (Recommended)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
“As Scrooge settles into his lonesome Christmas Eve, he is joined by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley (Christian Gray), now forced to walk the earth bearing the chains he created in life. A chilling portrayal of what Scrooge is to become should he not change his ways, Gray delivers a solid performance and is spot on with the spookiness of his character”
-Allegra Gallian, Chicago Theater Beat (3 1/2 out of 4 Stars)
First Folio Theatre, 2007
THE PASSION OF DRACULA
“Into this ‘proper bedlam’ wanders the jaunty young journalist with car trouble, Jonathan Harker, played with easy charm by Christian Gray… (More than anyone Gray ‘gets it.’ His performance, which finds him nimbly navigating the line between satire and melodrama, feels best suited to this inconsistent play)”
-Barbara Vitello, Daily Herald
THE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA
“The patient is Christian Gray (Louis Dubedat). Gray is the fast-talking scoundrel and the arrogant match for the doctors. In his immorality justification, Gray argues that lawyers threaten prison, parsons threaten damnation, and doctors threaten death. Gray is deliciously unapologetic for his rogue ways”
-Katy Walsh, Chicago Theater Beat (3 out of 4 Stars)
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
“As her beau, Jack Worthing, Christian Gray plays the hero with at least fifty shades of exasperation. He turns in a stunning performance with an ease which belies his great achievement”
-Paul Kuritz, Theater and Film (5 out of 5 Stars)
Artists’ Ensemble, 2014
THE SHAKESPEARE CONSPIRACY
“This is no dry history lesson. On the contrary, this show brings along enough espionage, backstabbing, and danger to make James Bond jealous…the cast is superb. Moving us through the story is Stanton Davis as Constable Maunder, who handles narratorial duties for the show. The anchors of the storyline and its titular conspiracy are Carl Herzog as playwright Christopher Marlowe, and Christian Gray as his patron, Sir Thomas. All three of these men are talented actors…The cast is consistently fantastic”
-James Castree, Examiner (5 out of 5 Stars)
PYGMALION
“The cantankerous Gray (Henry Higgins), on the other hand, is consistently arrogant and off-putting. His disregard for anyone’s feelings continues to stun and amuse. Their relationship unfolds like wet paper. It’s slippery and delicate…a bloody brilliant depiction”
-Katy Walsh, Chicago Theater Beat (3 out of 4 Stars)
PLASTIC
“Christian Gray also stars as Darryl, Albert’s cranky, nosy neighbor who keeps pushing Albert closer to the edge. Gray does a fine job of creating an angry and hateful man with a huge persecution complex. There are few characters on film less likeable than Darryl, and Gomez does a good job of using the dynamics between these two characters to build tension. Will Darryl push Albert to finally crack and completely break with reality? Will this cause the waitress’s death, or will Darryl get his comeuppance?”
-Cary Conley, Rogue Cinema
RECLAMATION
“Horowitz has created an emotionally powerful film, one that asks fundamental questions about love, life, and how one should deal with a sworn enemy…The acting is solid, with Christian Gray portraying the Russian, Dmitri, and Nick Stockwell as the heartbroken David. The film rests squarely on the shoulders of these two actors and they are excellent in their roles”
-Cary Conley, Rogue Cinema
MACHINE BABY
“The new short Machine Baby is one of those that left me speechless…All the performances were awesome, but I especially loved Christian Gray’s character. He played mentally deranged perfectly…This is a delightfully fun, demented short”
–Toni Danielle, Pophorror
“Gray is the best character here, he exudes a sense of menace about him that applies even when he isn’t talking”
-Daniel Simmonds, The Rotting Zombie (UK)
“It’s worth noting at this point that Christian Gray plays a very apt villain as the Manager with just enough flair to make you feel like you’re a voyeur to a surreal universe, which certainly matches the tone of the film…This isn’t a message film, but neither is it mindless entertainment. It’s art.”
-Samantha Kolesnik, Decay Magazine