@MONATHERAVEN

Mona Lee Ray is a Filipina writer, performer, and multidisciplinary storyteller whose work explores the complicated ways people survive, unravel, and find one another. Drawn to dark humor, emotional tension, and the surreal, she creates stories that make room for tenderness alongside the unsettling.

Her creative background spans published fiction and poetry, film, movement, and visual art. Across these disciplines, she approaches storytelling through character, atmosphere, and the things people reveal without saying a word. Her experience includes teaching movement storytelling at Stanford University and coaching movement for artists including ((( O ))).

Raised in a military family, Mona learned early to observe people, adapt to unfamiliar places, and build worlds of her own. Now a mother of three, she brings that attention to human complexity into her creative work, with a particular interest in characters whose inner lives resist easy explanation.

Her focus is film and narrative storytelling, with an interest in opportunities across performance, writing, story development, and producing. She welcomes conversations with filmmakers, casting professionals, agents, and creative collaborators who connect with her work.

Mona primarily posts her creative ventures on Instagram. Follow her at @MonaTheRaven to see her daily updates.