The Studio
We build in the Gray.
In The Gray Studios prides itself on creating worlds across film, television, animation, publishing, and sound. Our mission is to build spaces that help artists work on stories that have been long underrepresented and cast to the side. We are champions of authenticity and telling stories with a quality of care that matches the quality of production.
If you find yourself wondering whether the stories we tell are the hard one or the hopeful one, the answer is: both. It's the gray area. What is at the core of what we offer is the connective experience: seeing humans being humans, mess ups and all.
We serve as a reminder that in order for community to grow, you must take perfection out of connection.
Artist Spotlight
Evanescence, Nova Twins & Spiritbox
A live review of Evanescence, Nova Twins, and Spiritbox in Chicago. This spotlight centers the performance, the audience, and what it means to fight like a girl.
Photography
The Director's Lens
no one can tell you what you see, for they do not have your eyes. they cannot tell you what you feel, for they do not have your heart. and they cannot tell you how you've lived, for they have not had your life.
only you can show the world through your eyes.
The Mediums
Our Ecosystem
Choose your adventure.
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Film & Television
Psychological drama, short film, and documentary drawn from lived record.
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Art & Animation
Hand-drawn series and dark fantasy, built frame by frame.
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Sound & Music
Score and sound design. The audio that sets the room before anyone speaks.
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Books & Comics
Novels, hybrid memoir, and sequential art. Long-form, and in no hurry.
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Photography
Live music from the floor, and the long stretches of road in between.
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Notebook
Essays, reviews, and the thinking that happens before the work does.
In the Orbit
What's currently in motion.
In Development
DIS/ORDERED
Limited Series · Psychological Drama
A twelve-episode limited series adapted from the published memoir These Hands. When Senior Airman Andrea Sutton is forced into inpatient treatment, she must decide whether reclaiming her own narrative is worth surviving the institutions built to contain her.
Open project
In Production
The Quads
Animated Series · Comedy
When the last family-owned building on the block gets inherited by someone who never wanted to be a landlord, nine people who have nothing in common except a zip code have to figure out what it means to hold something worth keeping—together, loudly, and with plans that sometimes fall apart.
Open project
In Development
World To Me
Novel · Speculative Fantasy
A person who spent her entire life being moved by other people’s decisions finally finds people she loves, and then has to decide what she’s willing to give up for them. What happens when something beautiful and powerful about yourself is inseparable from the circumstances that wounded you?
Open project
In Development
Death's Jilted Lovers
Animated Series · Dark Fantasy
Death abandoned its post 25 years ago, and the world no longer knows how to end things. Two of the Collectors left tending it can't outrun what they've lost. They find each other anyway, and gather a crew of the broken, the discarded, and the deeply strange.
Open project
Founders