I’m Ray Crites and I’ve been telling stories my whole life.
As a screenwriter, I craft stories about bruised, broken, and beautifully flawed people. About rebels chasing redemption. Teenagers with scars carved into their souls. Mothers crying out for their lost children, and Soldiers haunted by ghosts.
I don’t write superheroes, bank heists, or rom-coms.
I write characters that are tragically real -- characters who could never fit into some neat little box.
My characters curse. They cry. They fall. They fight.
Sometimes they get up. Sometimes they don’t.
But they are real, I promise you that.
I don't write because it’s cool, or because I want to move to Hollywood and become the next big thing...
I write because I have to -- I don't have a choice. If I stop, I might go crazy. Because when the voices in my head stop whispering… you can bet your ass they're up to no good.
TRIGGER Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama After surviving a brutal roadside ambush, a haunted soldier returns home -- only to battle PTSD and the guilt of his best friend’s suicide. As his grip on reality slowly unravels, one desperate act could become his final stand.
EVERGREEN Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama When a bullied high school loner falls for a broken goth girl -- only to watch her fall prey to his sadistic tormentor -- he makes a fateful decision that could shatter all their lives forever. This is ain't your average coming-of-RAGE-story!
BANSHEE Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama When her daughter vanishes overnight, a drug-addicted single mother claws her way through the underbelly of a corrupt town to unravel a tangled web of abuse, trafficking, and betrayal -- leaving only a trail of blood and reckoning in her wake.
Slumber
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Film (short)
by Ray Crites (Short)
Screenwriter SLUMBER follows a couple's journey through life's stages—from playful childhood to peaceful old age—as glimpsed through tender moments beneath a simple white sheet, highlighting the timeless cycle of love and companionship.
The Illinois Central Ft. Lee Carleton (Music Video)
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Video
by Ray Crites (Music)
Producer / Editor
Twist - Return to The Knitting Factory
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Video
by Ray Crites (Music)
Producer / Director / Editor
Twist - Live at Showalter Hall
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Video
by Ray Crites (Music)
Producer / Director / Editor
Twist - Live at The Hop
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Video
by Ray Crites (Music)
Producer / Director / Editor
Twist - Live at EWU
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Video
by Ray Crites (Music)
Producer / Director / Editor
Twist - Live at The Knitting Factory
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Video
by Ray Crites (Music)
Producer / Director / Editor
Homecoming
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by Ray Crites (Short)
Screenwriter
Springfield: Salvation of the Wolves
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by Ray Crites (Drama)
Screenwriter
Viewer Discretion
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Film (short)
by Ray Crites (Drama)
Writer / Producer / Director An exploration about the effects of violence in media as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
The Pride of Lions
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Theater
by Ray Crites (Drama)
Playwright
ITT Technical Institue
(2000)
Spokane Community College
(1999)