Biography of Greg Romero

Greg Romero is a writer, performer, and dramaturg, originally from Louisiana. Currently based in Philadelphia, his works have been produced off-off Broadway by City Attic Theatre, and Working Man's Clothes Productions, and across the country by Salvage Vanguard Theater, Rude Mechanicals Theatre Collective, Theater In My Basement, Specific Gravity Ensemble, Little Fish Theatre, City Theater Company, Gobotrick Theatre Company, and Audacity Productions. Romero's full-length play, The Shelter, was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2003 National Playwright's Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and his ten-minute play, Two Bubbles, was a finalist for the 2004 Heideman Award given by Actors Theater of Louisville. His play, The Most Beautiful Lullaby You've Ever Heard won City Attic Theatre's 2006 Playwriting Competition and was a semi-finalist for the 2007 Princess Grace Award. His collaboration with composer Michael Vernusky, The Eulogy Project, was commissioned by Austin Script Works and was based on Romero's one-man piece, The Eulogy, published in Monologues For Men By Men (Vol 2) (Heinemann Press). Romero has been commissioned by The Cardboard Box Collaborative (Philadelphia), and Austin Script Works, and is a member of the Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and The Dramatists Guild of America. Romero received a BA from the Louisiana Scholars College and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas-Austin where he held the James A. Michener Fellowship. Romero currently serves as a Resident Artist with The Cardboard Box Collaborative in Philadelphia and teaches at University of the Arts.