[2] She then moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in UCLA's screenwriting program (where she studied under Lew Hunter) during which she interned with the producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
[2] In 1992, she wrote The Blouse Man (retitled A Walk on the Moon) based on her experiences vacationing in the Catskills for which she won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award.
[4]Gray then signed with Miramax and wrote Music of the Heart, a fictional story about the life of violin teacher Roberta Guaspari directed by Wes Craven and starring Meryl Streep.
[2] Gray went on to write Conviction (2010), which starred Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
[6]Gray's film Megan Leavey (2017) tells the true story of a young woman (played by Kate Mara) who joins the Marines to escape her small New York town, and forms a bond with a combat dog named Rex.