exploring the boundaries of performance through connection and intimacy

Queer Southern Creative

After growing up in the Deep South, where his love of engineering, marketing, and storytelling first developed, Ty made his way to Atlanta to pursue a degree in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech. While there, Ty was an active member of DramaTech Theatre and used the space to express himself to grow as a performer. After graduating summa cum laude, Ty decided to become an apprentice at Georgia Ensemble Theatre to pursue his dream of performing even further.  He then spent a few years in New York City, graduated from Atlantic Acting School, and joined the faculty at that conservatory for some years to teach Website Design & Digital Branding for Creatives. It was in New York where they learned to unleash their full creative potential as a playwright and producer of bold queer works.

Ty Autry in a floral shirt

Currently based in Atlanta, Ty is an award-winning queer actor and playwright and an ever-creatively growing producer.

"Autry’s writing and performance are complex, well-developed and deeply funny, never supplying easy answers or two-dimensional outrage."

- Theatre Travels

"Autry is phenomenal… he never falters and pierces the audience with an intense look, as if he is really seeing you."

— The Fourth Wall

Photos: Tyler Ogburn / Boys In The Buff (Out Front Theatre Company)

Ty Autry performing A Southern Fairytale showing off his rainbow shoes

A SOUTHERN FAIRYTALE

Based on true events, A Southern Fairytale artfully illuminates the challenges facing a young, gay Christian growing up in the Deep South through the eyes of Alex Belmont. As we accompany the protagonist through multiple journeys into and out of the closet, the audience is brought on a journey where we explore the very real impacts of conversion therapy, excommunication, all while trying to find one’s Prince Charming

Ty Autry and Thalia Gonzalez Kane lingering on a couch for their play At Birth

AT BIRTH

What could possibly go wrong when one drunken night Anna, very gay, and Isaac, very very gay, have sex to heal from a breakup? What follows is a journey covering themes of queer families, abortion rights in the South, and the pursuit of building community, no matter how untypical. This queer dark comedy navigates blurred family lines, friendship, and dealing with the unexpected consequences life can throw at a person.

TO ALL THE GOOD BOYS

What happens when two happy, healthy, consenting queer adults decide they want something a little extra in their relationship? With his signature attention to detail, Autry crafts beautifully human—and ultimately flawed—characters as we join them on their rollercoaster of discovery. Fears and jealousy riddle the two lovers as they embrace the opportunity to grow in their relationship but when the answer isn't always black and white, where do you find the solution?

LILY

Lily is on a mission to spread equality and justice in small-town Georgia, but her hope to bring a boyfriend home from Atlanta always causes drama. In this conservative Christian town, breeders aren't always welcome, but at least her moms give it their best shot.

Set in a parallel universe, we eavesdrop on a conservative queer family as they grapple with ideas of progress that don't fit into their Christian view of the world. With every passing election cycle and religious freedom bill, Lily's family ties are tested with southern sass and class.