Greg Vovos Email & Phone Number

Westlake, Ohio, United States

Write greeting card copy across all captions and occasions. Additionally, evaluate copy from writers, and serve as the liaison for contract writers. Represent AG at out-of-town public events, on TV, and podcasts; within 12 years, wrote ~ 10K original pieces of copy Senior Writer• Write ~800 of pieces of copy a year – many top-rating marketplace performers • Write product descriptions, marketing blurbs, and content for social channels• Create Writing Programs and spans while inspiring writers throughout• Design Copy Tests• Developed Men as Senders voice that increased male greeting card participation • AG ambassador: traveled events/conferences and wrote copy on the spot for 1000+ people• Go-to industry pundit: CBS Sunday Morning, Huffington Post, Slate, Ideastream, etc.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Instructor for Screenwriting and Playwriting: graduate and undergraduate coursesVisiting Lecturer• Within 3 years taught Intro to Playwriting and Intro to Screenwriting (6 classes overall) to 50+ writing students • Independent Study with Graduate Student – Writing and Staging the Full-Length Play• Former students accepted to prestigious graduate programs (DePaul University, etc)/won writing awards, pitch contests

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Award-winning, published playwright with work produced globally: Canada, Australia, Serbia, Romania, France, Italy, India, and translated into several languages. Playwright• Wrote play about heroin epidemic: How to be a Respectable Junkie o Media Coverage: The New York Times, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland Scene, NBC “We the People,” Ideastream, Cover2 Resources podcast, coolcleveland.com, Chagrin Valley Today, Talkin’ Broadwayo Production, Ohio: Cleveland Clinic, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio Northern University, John Carroll University, ADAMHS Board of Cuyahoga County Roads to Recovery Conferenceo Production, National: Pittsburgh, PA, Buffalo, NY, Hagerstown, MDo Production, Additional: Dramatists Guild Annual National Conference in NYC/2017o Awards: Ohio Arts Council, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland Critics Circle• Multiple-Year winner of The Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Playwriting for How to be a Respectable Junkie/2018 and Complete and Total/2014• Cleveland Public Theatre Nord Playwriting Fellow for Well Beings• Published by Dramatic Publishing, OrginalWorks, and PPT Press• Hundreds of productions locally, nationally, internationally• Dobama Theatre Playwriting Gym member• Resident Playwright for Willoughby Fine Arts Association’s Theatre for Healthy Living programDirector• Cleveland Theatre Collective Award for Best Direction• Directed at Cleveland Public Theatre, Dobama Theatre, Charenton Theater Company, Cuyahoga Community College, Baldwin Wallace University, University of Nevada, Las VegasWriter• Wrote for many different mediums, including The Dramatists magazine, Take-A-Hike Tours for the Gatewood Neighborhood Corporation, commissioned professional tributes

Directed at colleges and theatres around the country, but mostly in the Cleveland area where I live.

Lakewood, Ohio, United States

Writing Instructor, Drama (intermittently)• Playwriting for Teens; Playwriting/Longform Improv Script Development

• Playwriting Instructor for undergraduate students• Taught Intro to Playwriting (3 different classes) to 60+ students• Former students accepted to prestigious graduate schools (NYU, etc), winners of awards (DGF Fellowship, etc.), work professionally in theatre today

Responsibilities including selecting and producing the seasons; directing productions of new plays; negotiating royalties; working with and creating design and tech teams; hiring creative talent, writing grants.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

• Introduction to Theatre

Mfa, Playwriting

Activities and Societies: President/Producer of Poor Playwrights Theatre Co-Founder Asylum Theatre

B.A., English, Creative Writing & American Lit