Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Gray Martyn: Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Gray Martyn is a screenwriter who specializes in crafting surreal, mythic narratives. His work explores identity, power, and performance through psychologically rich stories that blur the line between reality and perception and incorporate elements of classical drama, transcendental mystery, and existential exploration.
His dramatic awakening began when he starred in and composed as well as performed original music for a well-reviewed college production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht. Martyn’s background in live performance, composition, and modernist theater deeply informs his cinematic voice — blending heightened theatricality with grounded psychological realism.
His latest work, Aristophanes’ Playhouse, blends noir crime drama with dreamlike surrealism, exploring the fragility of identity and the human desire for transformation. Martyn is currently seeking industry guidance on this project while developing multiple others, including In Search of Orpheus, a time-bending narrative that explores the intersection of myth, music, and madness.
Aristophanes’ Playhouse
A reluctant enforcer, disoriented after a botched job leaves his partner dead, is drawn into a mysterious theatre where reality bends and a hypnotic actress blurs the line between fate and performance. As he descends deeper into a world of shifting figures and surreal encounters, he faces the ultimate question: can he take control of his own story, or was he always meant to play this role?
Chinatown as a dream by way of Welles, Lynch, and Waits. It’s noir with theatrical heart, hypnotic unease, and blues-soaked soul.
In Search of Orpheus
Across two timelines, the lives of a haunted musician, a survivor turned writer, and two seekers converge in a meditation on fame, appropriation, mental illness, and the perilous hunger for meaning in the ruins of myth.
In Search of Orpheus explores what happens when we follow our idols too far — and what it takes to reclaim the stories we’ve been written into.
You can contact me for copies of my work (or for any other reason) using this form.
I will do my best to get back to you soon!
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.