GREG THOMPSON is an award-winning film and theatre artist and has been a member of Actor’s Equity Association, Society of Directors and Choreographers, and is SAG-AFTRA eligible. For more than three decades Mr. Thompson has served as Director/Choreographer, Director, Choreographer, Actor, Singer, Dancer and/or Production Designer for more than three hundred theatrical, film and media productions throughout the U.S. His work has encompassed Theatre, Musical Theatre, Opera, Light Opera, Film, Television, Dance, Voice Over, Academic Theatre, Corporate Theatre, Cruise Ship and Theme Park. In addition to his production work, Mr. Thompson has held teaching positions with several Colleges, Universities and Performing Arts High Schools (including the acclaimed DeKalb Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA) throughout the Eastern US.

 

Thompson also developed and implemented several courses of study for therapeutic dance and drama for the Kennedy Center’s VSA program, including the New Visions Ballet Curriculum for the blind. Mr. Thompson currently serves on the Theatre and Dance Faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso. Mr. Thompson’s Corporate Theatre credits include Producer/Choreographer for the finale portion of the world’s largest interactive convention experience for Intercontinental Hotel Group in Dallas, TX featuring the famed Dallas Black Dance Theatre.

 

He served for 6 years as a resident performer for Miami’s Mega Entertainment, where he was seen in numerous productions including, An Extraordinary Evening With Sophia Loren and Friends, to support AMFAR. Greg was the only principal performer hired from the East coast for the Jack Morton Worldwide produced, Home Depot’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. As Talent Coordinator for Macy’s South, he provided contract entertainment services and celebrity appearances for all Georgia and Florida stores from 1987 to 1991. Other clients include Sheraton, Simon & Schuster, Alexander-Proudfoot, Gould’s Pumps/ITT, AT&T, SunTrust, Haddasah International and IBM to name a few. Mr. Thompson distinguished himself as the Resident Stage Director and Choreographer for the Atlanta Lyric Theatre for ten seasons. He also produced and staged the Southeastern regional premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s, Children Of Eden, which enjoyed a sold-out run that held over for four weeks; staged the first regional production of Frank Wildhorn’s, The Scarlet Pimpernel, immediately following it’s successful Broadway run - a production which garnered 9 awards including Best Production. He has enjoyed a long-standing relationship - more than 20 years - with The Springer Opera House (The State Theatre of Georgia) as a director, choreographer and performer. He has also worked as guest director, choreographer and instructor for Ocala Civic Theatre since 1990. Mr. Thompson’s first dance role was the coveted title role in the perennial holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, for Lynne Tanner Dancers; other roles include Don Lockwood (the Gene Kelly role) in Singin’ In The Rain - performing the original choreography, Joe/Josephine (the Tony Curtis role) in Some Like It Hot, Judas In Jesus Christ Superstar, the Emcee in Cabaret, Billy Crocker in Anything Goes (4 productions) and Curly (dream ballet) in Oklahoma.

 

Greg’s film work includes more than 70 studio and independent features, shorts and series where he can be seen in the supporting role of Darrell Waltrip in the highly- acclaimed ESPN Original Film "3" starring Barry Pepper, and as the FDR’s photographer in the multi-Emmy winning HBO Original Film Warm Springs, starring Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Bates and Jane Alexander. Lead film roles include Allen in the supernatural/suspense film Dark Remains and the Baron in Psychopathia Sexualis. He is visible (albeit briefly) in Down With Love and in the leading role of Richard (best supporting actor award) in the indie feature Ghost Of The Needle. Dawson’s Creek fans will remember him as Peter, the slimy film producer, and One Tree Hill fans saw him in the recurring role of Dr. Adams.

 

Greg has several screenplays currently in development/optioned. In 2006 he debuted his first efforts as Director/Producer/Screenwriter with, Swimming To The Moon, the first of his six short-film scripts to be produced, which took the prestigious “Audience Choice” award at Rome International in it’s festival debut, followed by, Down A Dark Road, another award-winning short film in 2007, which earned him the Mason-Dixon Best Filmmaker award. The most recent, MINE, was nominated for best short film in its debut festival and won two audience choice and three juried awards for best short in its first seven festival screenings.

 

His work on stage and screen has paired him with such notable performers as Jennifer Holliday, Marcia Lewis, Kenneth Branagh, Ewan McGregor, Renee Zellweger, Sophia Loren, Melanie Griffith, Tippi Hedren, Cliff Robertson, John Cullum, Harve Presnell, Jodi Benson, Ruth Gotschall, Barry Pepper, J. K. Simmons and Norm Lewis.