Dylan LaRay is an award-winning director, writer, and actor based in Queens, New York. 

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LaRay is a multi-talented writer, director, and documentarian working towards his MFA in Film at the City College of New York. Most recently, he received BAFTA North America's Taffner Family Scholarship and the Ostrovsky Family Fund Award (created in honor of Chantal Akerman) to produce his MFA thesis film, Like Strangers, which will premiere this May at Cityvisions in Manhattan. Like Strangers is an intimate, queer drama about a bartender who must come to terms with a complicated past when a young woman comes to town in search of a long-lost relative.

 

Additionally, LaRay's short fiction film Nocturne (2025) was an official selection of the Chain NYC Film Festival and his first-person documentary short, The Road with You (2025) was an official selection of the Vermillion Vortex Film Festival. He also wrote and produced the horror comedy Bottom Feeder (2025) which was an official selection of the Queer Fear Film Festival. 

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As an actor, he is a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and he holds a BA in Theatre Arts. He is best known for his award-winning performance in the feature-length horror film, Fang (2022) for which he received multiple accolades including Best Performance at the Shawna Shea Film Festival and Best Actor at the Midwest Monster Film Festival. He is also a veteran stage performer with over 5o credits. His favorite roles include Rosencrantz in Hamlet, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Renfield in Dracula, and Charlie Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He made his network episodic debut as a costar in HBO's miniseries, Task (2025).

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