GREG ROMERO
Greg Romero, MFA.
Highland Campus
6101 Airport Blvd.
Austin, TX 78752
Greg Romero is originally from Louisiana. He is a playwright and theater-maker whose plays, site-specific projects, devised works, and sound-art collaborations have been presented in performance spaces, found spaces, and through the airwaves of the United States as well as Switzerland, Canada, The United Kingdom, and Jamaica. Romero was selected as the first-ever ArtsEdge Resident and is one of three playwrights to inaugurate the Philadelphia Dramatists Center/Plays & Players Playwriting Residency. He was recently selected as one of the pilot members of the Hyde Park Theatre Playwrights Group in Austin, Texas. He is an alum of the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, The Last Frontier Theater Conference, The William Inge Theater Festival, The Midwest Dramatists Conference, and his works are published by Heinemann Press, YouthPLAYS, and Playscripts, Inc. He received an MFA in Playwriting from The University of Texas at Austin where he held the James A. Michener Fellowship. You are welcome to learn more about his Playwriting at the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/5432/greg-romero
He has been teaching at Austin Community College since Fall 2017 and has also taught at Drexel University, University of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania, St. Joseph’s University, University of Texas-Austin, the William Inge Center for the Arts, and the National Theater Institute.
In addition to the theater, he also love mountains, trees, wildlife, rivers, and hiking.