Connie Ray

Biography

Connie Ray is a North Carolina native born to Shelton and raised on a dairy farm in Orange County. She began writing plays at age ten with her brother, which led to winning competitions at the county and district levels. Ray earned an MFA from Ohio University and has written successful musicals like Smoke On The Mountain, Sanders Family Christmas, and Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming, which have been produced extensively off-Broadway over the past 20 years.