Tyler Scruggs is a writer, musician, filmmaker, and advocate based in Atlanta, Georgia. His work moves between mediums, but the through-line is the same: stories that linger—whether in a hook, a scene, or a sentence.
As a singer-songwriter, Tyler has released three albums—Robots Live Forever (2011), Concerns (2013), and Televangelist (2021)—blending dreamy pop with indie rock grit, electronic textures, and R&B undertones. His songs are known for their emotional honesty and sharp wit, reframing themes of love, heartbreak, spirituality, and self-discovery with the irreverence survival sometimes demands. His fourth album is currently in production.
Tyler’s writing—published in outlets like INTO, Project Q, Goliath, PeachATL, and WUSSY MAG—covers arts, culture, and LGBTQ+ life, often blurring the personal and political. He’s also an active blogger and newsletter writer, sharing essays, commentary, and creative work directly with his audience.
His political work runs alongside his art. Tyler has been a city council campaign manager, a volunteer for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 and Marianne Williamson’s 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns, and served as co-chair for the Queer Socialists Working Group within the Democratic Socialists of America in 2023. His advocacy has focused on LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, addiction recovery, and workers’ rights in the entertainment industry.
In film and television, Tyler has worked across departments—from early work in the art department on Doom Patrol and HBO’s Watchmen to costuming for The Front Runner, Marvel Studios’ Academy Award–winning team behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. He understands that whether it’s a lyric, a camera frame, or a costume, every detail is part of the story.
As a film writer and director, his short films include Awesomeman, The Simulation, and, How I Might Have Met Jamie, which won Best Short Film at Tucson High School in 2011. He is presently working on a feature length film.
Tyler’s work, in all its forms, aims for the same thing: to create something worth remembering and, if possible, worth acting on.
