A Japanese-Korean-Swedish-American TV/feature writer, Etta Gray came to writing during an entertainment marketing career that made her realize that she’d never be fully satisfied selling other people’s art. 

Her stories often center around ordinary characters discovering their identity when they find themselves in extraordinary circumstances – influenced by her real-life solo emigrations from her hometown of Tokyo to London, Paris, New York, and finally, LA. 

From a cringey childhood at an all-girls’ Catholic school to working as a pastry chef in Montmartre, getting shot in Hawaii, living above an illegal “sauna”, and surviving a job so bad that Gawker wrote about it, Etta draws from her personal lived experience and believes in representation for all humans in all our weirdness.

She has been a Finalist for Humanitas New Voices and NBCUniversal Launch, as well as placing in contests including Austin Film Festival, Final Draft Big Break, Shore Scripts, and many others. Etta is currently developing and self-producing a web series based on her drama-thriller pilot, KAYA, which follows a mysterious woman who appears overnight in Washington DC for a job at the national museum — but it quickly becomes clear that she has ulterior motives for accepting the position.