As a producer, he has contributed to more than one hundred independent films, including A Beast in the Manor, Dark Feast, Ever After, The Farmhouse Murders, Hollow Lake, I Feel Fine, Shredded, and A Soldier’s Descent. His work emphasizes genre storytelling, particularly horror and thriller.
An accomplished screenwriter, Wren’s original work has been produced for the screen and recognized at film festivals worldwide, including the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Chicago Horror Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Awards, Omaha Film Festival, and Scream Queen Film Festival. His scripts have also placed in major competitions such as the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards, ISA Fast Track Fellowship, ScreenCraft Feature Competition, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, and the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. His television pilot Her Other Life earned first prize in the Fade In Awards TV Pilot/Web Series Competition and Best TV Pilot Screenplay at the Melbourne International Screenplay Awards, with additional recognition from Filmmatic and Final Draft’s Big Break Contest.
As an actor, Wren has appeared in more than forty films, including Amityverse, Desert Fiends 2, Four Nights in Fear Forest, Friday the 13th: Blood Loss, The Last Sleepover, Night of the Strangers, and Shadows of the Night, and will next appear in Midnight Maniac alongside horror icon Felissa Rose. He currently plays the sassy former fashionista Velvet Vain on the popular web series Horror Hound Bites.
In addition to his screen work, Wren is the bestselling author of twenty-one novels across romance, thriller, young adult, and horror, as well as the author of more than seventy stage plays produced internationally, five poetry collections, and numerous screenplays. His writing has appeared in publications such as Atomic Flyswatter, The Best 10-Minute Plays, and several Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies. He is also a film critic and curator of Fantastic Classics, where he writes essays on cinema with a focus on film noir.
Wren studied Communications and English at Oglethorpe University, earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, and completed UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting. He is a member of the International Screenwriters’ Association and has been recognized for his service to the writing community.
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