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grayshaynem
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas on April 7th, 1972
Husband:
Married to Ginger Allison Gray, Pharm D.
Father:
Natalie Mychael Gray (5/8/03) & Sophie Thomys Gray(2/6/06)
Nurse:
Interventional Radiology Nurse Manager at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). I also have experience in I.C.U., E.R., and Psych/
Mental Health nursing. I'm a current member of the American Radiological Nurses Association.
Certified in the following: ACLS instructor, BLS (CPR) instructor, PALS, TNCC, with Chemotherapy certification.
Writer:
Published poetry in YEAH magazine (New England) and The Horse (a UALR publication). I have about 16 years of writing that I have compiled and am looking to get it published (tentatively titled "Your Successor"). Also have written a short story that I would like to make into a play or short film called Popcorn Trees. First poem composed at age 4. I was also a featured reviewer for a few nationally published nursing books.
Musician:
I play drums and guitar. I can play basic stuff on the mandolin, lap dulcimer, harmonica, & piano. I have a collection of percussion instruments. Played drums in a signed/touring band from about 1993-1995 called Techno-Squid Eats Parliament. I've Played everywhere from Canada, Boston, New York, Maryland area to New Orleans, Dallas, St. Louis, Memphis, Little Rock, Atlanta, Athens area to Los Angeles...heck...even Idaho.
Also played drums in other side project bands like: Teeny, BAM, 50 Mission Crush, Smokium Fatium, and Spring Gun.
I write and record songs in my mini home studio now for a project (tentatively called Silk Robot or The Soft Statues or maybe even Shayne: In spectacular cross-section).
Actor:
Acted in JR. High and High School in the plays "Our Town" and "Duck-tails & Bobbie-socks. Acted as a main character in the independent film called "THE DELTA" that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996. It has also played throughout the U.S. and sporadic festivals around the world. I met with New Line Cinema, talent scouts, managers, and casting agents in 1996 and tried out for A Thin Red Line, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and some made for MTV movie. I was in nursing school at the time and married to my first wife (so I didn't really want to move to LA at that time).
Soldier?:
Sort of (I was there to help the injured, not to fight...unless I had to) I was a helicopter medic in the Army National Guard from 1990-1993 and 1996-1999, then got a Medical Commission as a Naval Nurse Officer in the Naval Reserve when I received my Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1999.
I got out of the military in 2003 about the time my first child was due and my diagnosis of Chron's Disease had gotten worse.
Miscellaneous:
Even though I was born in (and still live in) Little Rock, Arkansas I have traveled all around the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. I have also been to England, France, and Holland. I stayed a summer in Hawaii when I was 15 and lived a summer in Memphis in 1995. I became an Eagle Scout at age 14. I was (unfortunately) married - the first time - in 1996 and divorced in January 2001. I got remarried on Halloween 2002. Still happily married today to Ginger with two beautiful girls (Natalie and Sophie) and a cat named Abigail.
Interests:
movies, art, music, books, people, travel, religion, the ocean, psychopharmacology, and people in general
Sports/hobbies played (mostly when I was younger):
soccer, rugby, swimming, snow-boarding, Water/Snow Skiing, playing music, camping, hiking, Taekwondo, Aikido, horseback riding, hunting, scuba diving, writing, and seeing live bands (I have seen many...such as: the Sex Pistols, The Psychedelic Furs, The Cure, Guided By Voices, Portishead, Pearl Jam, NIN, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day, Frank Black, and They Might Be Giants...to name a few).
Reviews
The Delta (1996)
A dissertation by Shayne Gray
I am Shayne Gray and I think that Ira (the Director) did a good job with this film...the problems came up when he had to switch editors at the last minute. The character "John" felt that he was not liked by African Americans (for being Vietnamese), Vietnamese (for being African American), or Society in general (for being gay). The anger and confusion of all that happened came to an amalgamation of emotions on the boat. If you listen closely to the beach scene..."john" says that his father was a black U.S. solder in the Vietnam War. The movie was made to look "grainy" and "dark" because that is the effect that living in "the south" and feeling like an outsider can sometimes make you feel. I am not gay, but I would like to consider myself an actor (we all are actors if you really think about it). Before the movie I was in a band called Techno-Squid Eats Parliament. I played the drums. I was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. I became an Eagle Scout at age 14. I have been in the Army National Guard (as a helicopter medic) and an Officer in the Naval Reserve (as an ICU Nurse). I meet the director when I stopped at a bar in Memphis to take a pee on my way back to Little Rock one night (in 2005). It just so happened to be a gay bar called J-Wags...I think. The lady that checked my ID at the door was a little drunk and she said "there's a guy in here that wants you to be in his film" and I said, "Yeah right...do I have to wear a little pink bunny costume" and I walked away. The girl I was with gave a guy (Ira) her number and he called when I was at her apartment the very next day. I had just seen "My Own Private Idaho" and after reading the script I thought..."This is something that I think I could do, heck River Phoenix was brave enough to do it." Plus I needed money as I was planning on going back to college to finish my pre-requisites for Nursing School. It was fun doing the movie and the character that played "john" was actually very cool. For about 6 weeks I lived in Memphis with Tang, Ira, and the producer Margot (who also produced: Arresting Gena, Sidewalks of New York, Jesus' Son, and Ira's new film Forty Shade of Blue). I went to Sundance, San Francisco, and Boston for various film openings in 1996...I had also started nursing school at that time, and got married. I read for a few movies after The Delta. I tried out for A thin Red Line and I Know What You Did Last Summer. I got several offers to do other "gay films" that I turned down. A "big time" casting agent and another person from "New Line" showed some interest, too. I just had to focus on getting through nursing school. In 1999 I graduated with a BSN, RN from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2000 while working as an ICU nurse. In 2000 I took my (ex) wife to Paris, London, and Amsterdam on a three week vacation. The singer from my first band (Clay Bell) was living in Paris with his girlfriend at the time. After five years of marriage I got a divorce in 2001. I applied for Nurse Anesthesia School in Texas, but didn't get in. I went through some depression and got my nursing license placed on probation for 18 months (and got a General discharged from the Naval Reserve for being positive for marijuana on a random urine test). I played guitar, drums, and sang in various bands around Little Rock and went into Psych/Mental Health adolescent nursing (until I got my hand broken by a patient). In 2002 I started working in the E.R. and later switched over to being an Interventional Radiology nurse...where I eventually became the Nurse Manager of Radiology at UAMS. I got re-married on Halloween of 2002 to girl named Ginger (she too had been married once before and she was finishing up in Pharmacy School @ UAMS). I now have baby girl named Natalie and she is 2 years and 7 months old. We also have another baby girl that is due February 5, 2006 that we will name Sophie. We are having a new house built in a very nice neighborhood in Little Rock and it should be finished by February as well. I turned 33 years old on April 7, 2005. My new house will have a "music room" where I will write and record music. I also have several books of "random" writing that I plan on typing up and editing (I guess it would be considered modern contemporary poetry). My wife and I have been to New York twice this year and we took Natalie to see Niagara Falls in October. I would love to act in another movie or even do soundtracks for movies. I actually wrote a song called "forty Shades of Blue" for Ira's latest movie, but I never played it for him. I haven't even seen the movie yet. I do, however, have a steady job and a loving family...so who could ask for anything more? Thanks for all of the compliments...