Sean Gray

Sean Gray (born 15 June 1983) is a comedy writer, producer and director. He is known for his work on the HBO series Veep and the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Thick of It and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. He is a two-time Emmy-winner and Golden Globe-nominee. 2Early life and education Gray graduated from Oxford University. During his time at Oxford he wrote for and edited the university magazine Isis, and has explained that this "was basically just an excuse to write funny stuff for an audience". Gray started writing comedy sketches as a student and has cited Peter Cook as the comedian who "opened [his] eyes to what comedy could be". 2Television and Radio Gray is a writer and Co-Executive Producer on HBO's Emmy-winning sitcom Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The show and Gray won the Outstanding Comedy Series at both the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards and the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild Of America Awards and a 2016 Peabody Award. He is a credited writer on 9 episodes of Veep: Catherine, Chung (Season 1); Hostages, Running (Season 2); Some New Beginnings, Alicia (Season 3); Convention, Testimony (Season 4); Thanksgiving (Season 5). Gray previously worked on the original BBC comedy The Thick of It, writing or co-writing 14 episodes of the BAFTA-winning sitco