Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Gray Martyn
Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Screenwriter | Musician | Actor
Gray Martyn is a screenwriter whose work explores identity, performance, and agency through mythic, psychologically rich narratives. Exploring the space between reality and perception, his stories follow characters navigating shifting roles and fractured selves amid transformation and loss.
Martyn’s creative foundation was shaped through performance and composition in modernist theatre, notably a college production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, in which he starred and for which he composed original music. That background continues to inform his cinematic voice, which blends heightened theatricality with grounded emotional realism.
His latest script, Aristophanes’ Playhouse, is a surrealist noir about transformation and authorship. He is currently seeking guidance and community around that project while developing new work, including In Search of Orpheus — a time-bending exploration of myth, madness, and music.
Aristophanes’ Playhouse
A reluctant enforcer, on the run after a botched job leaves his partner dead, is drawn to a mysterious theatre where reality bends and a hypnotic actress invites him into a world of shifting figures and surreal encounters.
It’s Taxi Driver if Travis Bickle had dreams instead of nightmares. It contends that salvation comes not from violence but from repair. It sits with darkness but does not linger.
In Search of Orpheus
A college journalist's intimate entanglement with a charismatic rock star culminates in trauma and reinvention, while decades later, two young men retrace her story's path toward the fallen icon she once escaped, confronting cherished myth and the cost of chasing legends along the way.
In Search of Orpheus explores what happens when we follow our idols too far and what it takes to reclaim the stories into which we’ve been cast.
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