death_date death_place birth_place nationality name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation
30 june 2003 heidelberg , victoria sydney , new south wales australian oriel gray 26 march 1920 oriel gray
 oriel bennett playwright , screenwriter
oriel gray

oriel gray -lrb- 26 march 1920 -- 30 june 2003 -rrb- is an award winning australian dramatist and playwright who wrote from the 1940s to 1960 's .
the major themes of her work were `` social and political issues such as the environment , aborigines , assimilation and bush life '' .
gray was born `` oriel bennett '' in sydney , new south wales .
she came from a politically active family and was herself a member of the communist party of australia from 1942 to 1950 .
she married john gray in 1940 , an actor whom she met while at the sydney new theatre and they had a son , stephen .
by 1947 her marriage had broken down and she moved onto a long term relationship with john hepworth with whom she had two more sons , peter and nicholas .
gray died from a heart attack , aged 83 in heidelberg , victoria , on 30 june 2003 .
