Greg is a writer, filmmaker, and professor of film studies based in New York City. Growing up in many different places from Greece to the Mojave Desert, to small towns of the Northeast, travel and culture went hand-in-hand with his love of storytelling. Writing scripts and stories throughout his childhood, Greg graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in English and Film and moved to Los Angeles. There, he took his first job on the set of James Cameron’s Titanic, where he worked closely with several of the scaled models of the famed ship.
After working on the creative team of Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, Greg moved to New York City to focus on his own books and movies. He is the director and co-writer of two feature films, including the SXSW award-winning Up With Me (distributed by IFC Films), and is currently in pre-production on a dramatic thriller set in the Arctic of Alaska. Greg is also an adjunct associate professor at The New School, where he teaches undergraduate classes on directing, screenwriting, film production, and cinema studies.
Greg is the author of the critically-acclaimed young adult novel When We Wuz Famous, published in 2013 by Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers and in 2015 by Square Fish/Macmillan Children’s Group in paperback. The book was a Junior Library Guild selection and an American Library Association pick, and Greg received the prestigious annual Muriel Becker Award for Literary Excellence given by the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English. Greg was also commissioned by Routledge Press to write two non-fiction books on filmmaking: The Collaborative Director and The GoFaSt Guide to Screenwriting.
Greg lives in Brooklyn with his wife (a cookbook editor at Phaidon), two children, and an Aussie-Collie. He and his family are avid travelers and enjoy exploring the United States and other countries. He has completed the New York City Marathon several times and is a seasoned backwoods camping enthusiast.
Regal House Publishing is proud to publish Greg’s Shout at the Thunder in the summer of 2026.
