Playwright, Actor, Teacher
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Grayson May Butler is a produced playwright, a published poet and author, a professional actor, and a multidisciplinary artist. Their play SCRIPTURE was produced as a featured one-act in the 2024 Actors Studio Drama School Repertory Season. They produced, wrote for, directed and performed in The Tank Theater 2023 festival, "Love, Science and Magic: New Plays by Emerging Playwrights."
From 2014 to 2018, Grayson worked as a lead actor, instructor, and observer-controller/trainer for the Squad Overmatch Study, serving as a leader across multiple military bases for numerous training studies. They have also been published in literary journals including: Bacopa Review, Colorado Review, Cleveland Review of Books, Poet's Choice and Z Publishing House’s “Pennsylvania’s Emerging Writers.”
They received a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of the Arts, and a MA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from the New School of Performing Arts. They were nominated for an Impact Entrepreneurship Fellowship at the New School, where they dedicated their venture ART LAB to creating online community and visibility for LGBTQIA+ artists.
They are a graduate of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, where they majored in playwriting, also studying acting, screenwriting and directing.
Kokua Education, Part-time Teacher, 2024-present
PAC NYC, Audience Services Representative, 2023-present
Squad Overmatch Study, Acting Instructor/Trainer, 2014-2018
MFA Playwriting, Pace University, Actors Studio Drama School, 2024
MA Arts Management and Entrepreneurship, The New School of Performing Arts, 2021
BFA Creative Writing, The University of the Arts, 2018
