About Juliet
Juliet Gray (she/her) is an author, creator, educator, performer, producer, writer and many other things in alphabetical order.
She is a multi-hyphenate creative: a producer and creator of original theatrical work and live events often alongside Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony-winning artists. She is also a teaching artist, most recently at The Metropolitan Opera in NYC, and a published author, writer, and performer.
The only way to get better at anything is to try it, fail at it, move through that moment, and try it again.
Juliet Gray "The Extreme Power of Imperfection"
Forbes magazine
In addition to co-founding The Performing Arts Project and Key West Theater, Juliet is also a grant recipient, twice receiving the prestigious Art Builds Community Grant from the Florida Keys Council of the Arts, with which she identified civic challenges and addressed them through an artistic lens. In her writing career, Juliet is the author of the book the Insiders’ Guide to the Florida Keys & Key West published by Rowman & Littlefield’s Globe Pequot Press, and has written more than 1,000 articles for Delta Sky, Glamour, Hamptons, NBC, and Time Out Magazine among others.
Juliet’s producing highlights include: the new plays Locura (most recently a staged reading at Guild Hall in East Hampton), and Eclipse, as part of the first theatrical exchange between the U.S. and Cuba in more than 50 years; the world premiere of the original musical Oklahoma Smith and the Pantheon of Annihilation; the East Coast premiere of Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up by Oscar nominee Lucy Alibar; the short film Frances Eaton: the Untold Story of a World Champion, which she also wrote, directed, and starred in, as well as numerous shows and fundraisers including the annual island-wide Tropic Cinema 72-Hour Film Challenge in Key West and Let Me Try That Again at 54 Below in NYC. Juliet is also proud to have co-founded the Key West High School Drama Club and to have been an associate producer with Back House Productions in the basement of the Drama Book Shop in NYC, which helped push more than 40 projects from the page to the stage.