Layon Gray

Layon Gray (born January 26, 1969, in Alexandria, Louisiana) is an American playwright. Gray, is the writer of the Off-Broadway play Black Angels Over Tuskegee which is currently in its 7th year at St. Luke's Theatre. The play is about the historical Tuskegee Airmen. He won an NAACP Award for the play, and an Artistic Director's Achievement Award. His play The Girls Of Summer, about an all negro female baseball team in 1945, which won a 2005 NAACP Award for Best Play is in the works as a feature film. His most recent work Kings Of Harlem, about the 1939 Harlem Rens basketball team played to sell-out audiences in New York and North Carolina in 2015.

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