CONTACT
Email: lucygraysf@gmail.com
REVIEWS
More Real Life Rock by Greil Marcus, Yale University Press, 2022: Susanna Malkki, conductor, The Rite of Spring, San Francisco Symphony (June 11), pg. 141
Medium.com, The Light in Her Eyes: Julia Margaret Cameron, Part I, April 24, 2023
Medium.com, The Lies of Lee Miller: Hiding in Plain Sight, December 14, 2022
Medium.com, White Devils, August 21, 2022
Medium.com, Making Famous Women Victims, June 20, 2022
Medium.com, Watching Ukraine Suffer, April 11, 2022
Medium.com, From the Most Brutal Bottom. March 3, 2022
Medium.com, Power=Energy=America, January 12, 2022
Medium.com, Andy Warhol and the Photo Factory, November 30, 2021
Medium.com, Freaks and Dreams, October 10, 2021
Medium.com, American Geography: American Pathology, September 9, 2021
Medium.com, Life is Work, August 24th, 2021
Medium.com, Fragments in a Dream Kitchen, July 28, 2021
Alta, What’s Love Got To Do With It?, August 12, 2020 Read It
The New Fillmore, From Fillmore to Union, November 2, 2017
ELLE, Interview, Movieline Magazine, Playgirl Magazine, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Real Paper, Film Comment, San Francisco Weekly, Contributor 1985 – 1994
JOURNALISM
Editorial and Illustration
Civilization Magazine, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, April 2021
American Theater Magazine, The Prime of Ms. Joy Carlin, 2018 Read more.
The New Fillmore, Fillmore Street 1996, January 2018 Read More.
The New Fillmore, Focusing on Ballerina Moms, May 2015 Read More.
The New Fillmore, Like Print, Juicy News is Evolving, September 2014 Read More.
Brick Magazine, On a Dancer’s Life, Summer 2003
Editorial
The New Fillmore, The Fillmore’s History of Displacement, October 26, 2016 Read More.
The Village Voice, Greil Marcus’ Real Life Rock Top 10, The Rite of Spring, August 10, 2017
The New Fillmore, For Sale: Our House, January 5, 2014
Brick Magazine, Charles Bukowski, Summer 2007
University Press of Mississippi, Film Comment; Coppola: The Interview, with David Thomson, 2004 and October 1983 respectively
Editorial Illustration
Brick 92, The Day of the Locust, Winter 2014
Mother Jones Magazine, 18 Months of Hearings, 700 Witnesses – and Barely a Single Homeowner by Marilyn Snell, January 2011 Read More.
Documentary, !Women Art Revolution, Lynn Hersman-Leeson, Stills, 2010
Brick Magazine, Honor at the Stairs, Cover, Spring 2007
Documentary, Strange Fruit, Lynn Hershma-Leeson, Stills 2006
ABC-TV, American Inventor, 2006
ABC-TV, Dancing with the Stars, 2006
Alfred A. Knopf, Little Brown, The Whole Equation, by David Thomson, Untitled (Nicole Kidman)
Frontispiece; New York, London 2005
Papercity, September-October 2002
Nature Company, Discovery Channel, Animal Faces: A Wild Face Painting Book; 1993, 2001
Independent, Lucy Gray’s Bodie California 2000
Independent, Anthony Minghella and Walter Murch, The Talented Mr. Ripley, December 19, 1999
The New York Times, Anthony Minghella and Walter Murch, The Talented Mr. Ripley, December 18, 1999
SHORT STORIES
Readings
Flash Fiction Collective,My First Bra, Black Alley Books, San Francisco December 7, 2017
Litquake,My First Bra; Comfort Lane, Samovar, October 20, 2017
Flash Fiction Collective,The Moth(er), Black Alley Books reading, September 7, 2017
The Moth, Mr. Lemon, Housing Works Bookstore Café recitation, New York, May 18, 2017
The Moth,One Shot, Public Works recitation, San Francisco, February 28, 2017
Z Space, Outside the Box with Leah Garchik, San Francisco, May 1, 2013
Periodicals
Narrative Magazine, I Thought I Would Be a Movie Director 2014
Journal of Gastronomy, Melons in the Desert, Winter 1985
Journal of Gastronomy, Fresh Catch of the Day, Fall 1984
Awards
Winner, “My First Bra,” Litquake’s Writers on the Verge Contest, 2017
Finalist, “So Close, So Soon,” Narrative Magazine Fall Story Contest, 2016
Finalist, “The Phrasing,” Narrative Magazine Winter Story Contest, 2015
Finalist, “Three Days, One Beer,” Narrative Magazine Spring Story Contest, 2015
PLAYS
Performances
Mechanic’s Institute Library, The Day of the Locust; writer, director; actors reading with photographs, San Francisco January 22, 2014
Producer’s Club,Take Irene, playwright, producer; reading directed by Phyllis Roome,
New York City January 10, 2011
Knoedler & Co., To Kill For, playwright, director, producer, New York City July 27, 2009
Grace Cathedral, To Kill For, playwright, producer; production directed by Joy Carlin,
San Francisco Fringe Festival, To Kill For, September 5-9, 2008
Press
The New Fillmore, To Kill For, September 2008 Read More.
San Francisco Bay Guardian, To Kill For
San Francisco Arts Monthly, To Kill Fior
Examiner, To Kill For
MOVIES
Screenings
Vimeo, Genevieve Goes Boating
Vimeo, A Country Girl
Fort Mason Center, Building C continuous screenings, Genevieve Goes Boating; writer, director, producer, 2011 – 2013
California Film Institute Christopher B. Rafael Theater screening Genevieve Goes Boating, interview Vendela Vida, photographs Balancing Acts, November 15, 2012
New People Cinema San Francisco Film Society screening Genevieve Goes Boating, interview Steven Winn, reading A Stage of Her Own November 11, 2012
World Kid’s Foundation Lessons in the Dark Educational Program, Genevieve Goes Boating, throughout India, 2011 – 2012
National Center for Performing Arts Mumbai India Festival, 2012
Berkshire International Film Festival, Great Barrington 2012
Oaxaca Film Fest, Mexico 2012
Miami Short Film Festival Miami 2011
DVD release Strange Fruit, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Biography of the director and the making of the film, 2008
SF Gate, Made by the Bay, podcast with video pilot, 2008
Podtech.net, Lucy Talks Movies, weekly podcast with video, 2006 – 2007
Clay Theater private fundraiser, White Lies, postproduction producer, 1985
University of New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Isaac Newton, short student film, various
Dartmouth College, A Country Girl, short student film, various
Press
SF Gate, Mick LaSalle, February 29, 2012
https://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/02/29/genevieve-goes-boating/
Film Threat, Phil Hall, October 16, 2012 Read More.
Awards
Film Threats Top 10 of 2012, Genevieve Goes Boating
LECTURES
Film Clubs lectures with screenings, survey courses, Silent Films, Unreliable Narratives and Everything in Between, San Francisco 2009 – 2020
San Francisco Public Library lecture with photographs, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, November 14, 2017
San Francisco International Film Festival interview and screening, Paul Schrader, Mishima, Kabuki Theater, May 1, 2016
San Francisco Philosophical Society lecture with photographs, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, Berkeley May 7, 2016
Diane Middlebrook Salon lecture with photographs, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, San Francisco February 21, 2016
Balboa Theater, Introduction to Annie Hall, San Francisco, January 31, 2016
San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary lecture with photographs, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, December 3, 2015
The Image Flow lecture with photographs, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, Marin September 24, 2015
Metropolitan Club lecture with photographs, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, San Francisco April 29, 2015
Ruth Asawa School of the Arts Guest Lecturer, Illustrating Short Stories with Photographs, September 19 – 26, 2014.
Arion Press interview and screening, Douglas McGrath, Film Director Nicholas Nickelby, San Francisco October 7, 2013
Booksmith publication Interview, Ellen and Molly Haskell author of My Brother My Sister, San Francisco September 19, 2013
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center screening, Genevieve Goes Boating, interviewed by Vendela Vida with photographs Balancing Acts, San Rafael November 15, 2012
Narrative Magazine interview, Michael Ondaatje and David Thomson, San Francisco November 14, 2012
New People Cinema San Francisco Film Society screening, Genevieve Goes Boating; play reading “A Stage of Her Own;” interviewed by Steven Winn, November 11, 2012
The Infinity interview and screening, Susan Andrews on Dana Andrews, Swamp Water, San Francisco September 30, 2012
The Infinity interview and screening, Laura Truffaut on Francois Truffaut, The Story of Adele H, San Francisco May 17, 2012
Doug Adams Gallery lecture with photographs, The Map of Foreclosure, Berkeley February 16, 2011
Diana Kapp Residence lecture with photographs, The Map of Foreclosure, San Francisco ,April 13, 2011
Telluride Film Festival interview with screening, Tamara Jenkins and Laura Linney, The Savages, Colorado, September 1, 2007
Stanford University Institute on Women and Gender lecture with photographs, No More Red Shoes, Palo Alto April 8, 2005
Napa Valley Arts and Lectures interview, Michael Ondaatje and David Thomson 2005
Sacred Heart Academy lecture with photographs, No More Red Shoes, San Francisco, May 2005
City College lecture with photographs, Tango in San Francisco, San Francisco, 2003
Yale University lecture with photographs, Naming the Homeless, New Haven September 2000
City College lecture with photographs, Naming the Homeless, San Francisco February 22, 1999
California State University Long Beach, How They Treat Short Men: John Fante 1995
Lebanon College, Women in Film, Adjunct Professor, New Hampshire
RADIO
National Endowment for the Arts Radio Interview, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers 2017
KWMR Radio Interview, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers, Point Reyes Station April 14, 2015
KZSU-FM, Interview, Balancing Acts Exhibit, Stanford University, CA 2005
WNHV-New Hampshire/Vermont Radio, ABC Affiliate, Producer, Talk-Show Host “Breakfast at the Hanover Inn,” 1979 – 1981
WVPR-Vermont Public Radio, Producer, Director, Writer Radio Plays 1979 – 1981
WVPR-Vermont Public Radio, Book Reviewer 1979 – 1981
Award
Silver Gavel, American Bar Association, Let the Punishment Fit the Crime, WNHV Radio Series, 1981
EDITOR
San Francisco International Film Festival Program, 1986 – 1987
EDUCATION
Recipient of The Carlisle Family Grant for the Community of Writers Workshop, Summer 2023
Writing Your Family Members as Characters Workshop with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Catapult, 2021
The Art of the Story Workshop with Tom Jenks, Narrative Magazine, 2014
Bachelor’s Degree with concentration in European Literature and Film, Dartmouth College/University of New Hampshire, Special Program, 1979
Summer Writing Class with Russell Banks, University of New Hampshire, 1975