Greg Glienna
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Greg Glienna hails from Chicago, Illinois. He was very active in the
Drama dept. of High School and attended Columbia College in Chicago,
where he studied film. It was while there he began filming the feature
length, original version of Meet the Parents. It played in Chicago and
eventually some art houses around the US and London, where it received
a very positive response. It was eventually seen by director Steven
Soderburgh who brought it to the attention of Universal, where it was
remade into a big budget success. Greg dropped out of film school to
pursue stand up comedy in the 1990s, where he served as the opening act
for such artists as David Copperfield, Tim Allen, Connie Francis, Emo
Philips and the Marshall Tucker Band. His other films as
writer/director are Desperation Blvd and Relative Strangers. He also
wrote the original scripts for A Guy Thing and Dreamgirl, which was
sold to Warner Bros. and has not been made yet. His play, Suffer the
Long Night will have its Los Angeles premiere August 8, 2008 at the
Meta Theater. Greg is also an accomplished singer/songwriter/pianist
and performs regularly in the Chicago and Los Angeles area.
