Greg is a creative consultant and multi-media producer with extensive experience in live theater and clubs, TV, radio, audio, video and online/new media, working with a virtual who's who of progressive art world and comedy talent. He has a background in screenwriting & journalism and as a producer he specializes in drawing out the stories and comedy of idiosyncratic talent.
Greg brings his wide experience to bear in private consulting and creative coaching. He is available for to work privately with you on scripts, books and promotional projects.
Greg is co-director of The Un-Cab Lab, a writing & performance workshop that he leads with Beth Lapides. The Lab provides a forum for people to develop standup, essays, monologs, pitches, presentations and one-person shows.
He has developed and written feature film and tv projects for Fox, Disney, Dino De Lautrentiis, Oxygen, MTV, Comedy Central. He's been a Story Editor and professional Script Reader for Columbia, UA, TriStar, plus other production companies and literary agencies. He also created and serves as head judge of The Other Network Comedy Contest.
Greg is a guerilla PR and marketing veteran. He has promoted Beth Lapides, the Un-Cabaret, The Kitchen, The Other Network and many independent events and shows. He has planned and co-ordinated local and national publicity campaigns that have generated hits in People, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, NY Times, LA Times, TV Guide, NPR, CNN and many more.
He is the co-creator and founding producer of Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret, LA's seminal alternative standup comedy show, live since 1993. He adapted and Executive Produced Un-Cabaret for Comedy Central on TV, for Sirius Satellite Radio, Comedy World Radio, on the award-winning uncabaret.com website and several critically-acclaimed audio CDs for his own indie UC Records. He has produced the show live with Julia Sweeney, Judd Apatow, Margaret Cho, Richard Larry Charles, Lewis, Carrie Fisher, Kevin Nealon, Laura Kightlinger, Jerry Stahl, Winnie Holzman, Michael Patrick King, Merrill Markoe, Jeff Garlin, Sherri Shepherd, Taylor Negron, Patton Oswalt, Jack Black, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and many others at venues including the Luna Park, HBO Workspace, Getty Center, Lollapalooza, the Great American Music Hall, Friars Club, Highways, the Knitting Factory, and many other clubs, colleges and theaters. He has produced over 100 shows from the Un-Cabaret audio archive which are now available for download at audible.com.
Working in TV, Greg also produced Comedy Central's "Hi-Octane" with Sofia Coppola, Zoe Cassavetes, Flea, produced and directed the stand-up series "The Sweet Smell of Excess" with Margaret Cho, Michael Patrick King, Moon Zappa, others for the Recovery Network, Executive Produced MTV's talk show pilot, "The Couch" with Beth Lapides, John C. Reilly, and Andy Dick, and was Multi-Media Producer for HBO's "HBO Workshop Presents" with Greg Behrendt. He was Creative Consultant for Comedy Central/Julia Sweeney's "Pulp Comics" and Talent Consultant for the Sci-Fi Channel, Staff News Producer for the CBC, produced several independent documentaries, and has developed projects for HBO, Disney, Evolution, Oxygen, Stone-Stanley, Union of Concerned Scientists, ACLU/Court TV. Greg was also Producer of "The Coming Out Party", a concert film featuring gay and lesbian comedians telling stories about coming out of the closet, produced by Creative Light, starring Terry Sweeney, John Riggi, Bob Smith, Rene Hicks, Dan Renzi, Jackie Beat.
Greg works extensively in radio and audio. He has written and produced news and features for NPR, CBC, Premiere Radio, Pacifica, Warner Audio, SANE, Sirius, XM, NPR, BBC, and has produced over 100 episodes of Un-Cabaret Stories & Standup for audible.com, over a dozen CDs for his own indie label UC Records, including standup, spoken-word and educational materials. He produced two daily radio shows for Comedy World, a syndicated radio and online network; "Radio Un-Cabaret" and "The Beth Lapides Experience", a live daily talk show hosted by Beth with guests including Dee Dee Ramone, Mr. Winkle, Eric Bogosian, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ahmet Zappa, Candace Bushnell, Kennedy, the Playboy Advisor, members of Matchbox 20, Nashville Pussy, Supreme Beings of Leisure, L7, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals, the Go GoÕs, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more.
Greg began his career producing live theater, music, video installations and performance events for The Kitchen in NY, where he worked with Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Nam June Paik, Eric Bogosian, Vito Acconci and began his long-term collaboration with Beth Lapides.
Greg developed and produced several of Beth's one-person shows at venues including the ICA Boston, ICA London, PS 122 NY, Highways LA and others. Greg also served as Campaign Manager for Beth's guerilla First Lady Campaign, landing her in People Magazine and at the Democratic National Convention for CamNet, a proto-reality network. He also worked with Julia Sweeney developing "God said Ha!" and Randy and Jason Sklar developing "A Tale of Two Sklars". Produced "Lenny Bruce" for Marvin Worth Productions and has worked for Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, the ACLU, Drug Policy Alliance, SANE, Teen Canteen and many other candidates and organizations.
Together with Beth, he programmed and produced "The Other Network", a floating festival of the best un-aired TV pilots ever made, introduced by their creators (including Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel, Ben Stiller, Conan O'Brien, Bob Odenkirk, Darren Star, Seth McFarlane, others) and "Say the Word", an ongoing series of reading events featuring first-person non-fiction from top comedy writers including Bruce Wagner, George Meyer, Merrill Markoe, Cindy Chupack, Dimetri Martin, Alan Zweibel, Teri Garr, others in an ongoing series at the Skirball Center, Warhol Museum, Joe's Pub, Knitting Factory LA & NY, the Players Club.
He also programs and produces "Comedy Project", a bi-annual comedy festival at the Skirball, that has featured screenings, stand-up, panels, workshops, and conversations featuring Carrie Fisher, Richard Lewis, Slamdance, and many of the names listed above, and has served as Entertainment Director for Moomba and Dorscia, LA nightclubs where he programmed, produced, and presented many comedy events including new work by Julia Sweeney, Mary-Lynn Rajskub, Cindy Camponera, Supafloss, Betsy Salkind, Molly Bryant, Jennifer Cox & Jack Plotnick, Girl Guitar Club and many others.

Greg has written feature screenplays for 20th Century Fox, Dino De Laurentiis, Vestron, and wrote and produced "Radioarcade", a radio-drama series for NPR. As a journalist, he has written for Premiere, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, LA Weekly, Writers Digest, Omni and several others.
He has also worked as a NYC bike messenger, an usher at the Metroplitan Opera and a 'sweathog' on Welcome Back Kotter. He attended Ethical Culture, Fieldston, Elizabeth Seeger, the College of Wooster and NYU.