Tim O'Leary

Tim O'Leary is a Los Angeles-based director/screenwriter whose brand is Murder & Gay Stuff. He's the writer and director of the murder mystery series Laid Bare, an OUTtv original, and the horror comedy series Demonhuntr, available on Amazon Prime. A display dedicated to Demonhuntr was recently exhibited at the Hollywood Museum. His film The Holly King was recently featured at Frameline, the longest-running and largest queer film festival in the world. A graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in Television Writing, he is the founder and head of the Los Angeles LGBTQIA+ TV Writers, which currently has over 900 members. Before moving to LA, he taught playwriting in NYC at the Harvey Milk High School, a school designed as a haven for LGBTQ youth. His play The Wrath of Aphrodite is taught in a theater class at John Jay College, and is the subject of the textbook Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences. When not writing or directing, Tim works as a fight coordinator, and his fights have appeared in such films as Disciple (Sebastian La Cause,) Agents of Change (Jett Garrison,) and One for the Team (Rain Valdez.) The three great loves of his life are his husband Robert Rice, his rescue dog Dexter, and collecting female-superhero-themed refrigerator magnets.