Gunawan Maryanto was an actor, writer, and theater director. He served as Artistic Director of Teater Garasi/Garasi Performance Institute and Indonesian Dramatic Reading Festival. He is widely known as the main actor in the film Solo, Solitute, playing the poet-activist Widji Thukul and as an actor in the film The Science of Fictions for which he won the Citra award for best actor at the Indonesian Film Festival. For Gunawan, openness was an important capital in today’s art and required the ability to continue to learn and work with artists from various art disciplines. Maryanto suddenly left us on October 6, 2021.