Gregory Blair

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Gregory Blair
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Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
OccupationActor, writer, director, producer
Website www.gregoryblair.info

Gregory Blair is an American actor, director, and playwright. Blair has portrayed fall guys, villains and characters in between. He received a Geoffrey Award for Best Character Actor for his role in Sylvia, a Stonewall Award for his novel Spewing Pulp, [1] and an EOTM Award for "Best Director of an Indie Horror Film" for Deadly Revisions. [2] Blair studied in and around Southern California, including at UCLA.

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Career

Blair performed in the plays Sylvia, Working, and Six Degrees of Separation, in the films On The Rocks, Ooga Booga, and Garden Party Massacre, and in Escape The Night , Love That Girl!, Alternate History on TV.

Blair wrote the plays Cold Lang Syne, [3] [4] The Last Banana and Nicholas Nickleby . [5] He published the Stonewall Award-winning book Spewing Pulp [1] ). Blair has written over a dozen screenplays and a first place in the Horror Screenplay Contest [6] and "Best Screenplay" in the Fantastic Horror Film Festival. [7] Current screenplays sold and/or in production include "Garden Party Massacre", "Heretiks" and Deadly Revisions—which Blair also directed and helped produce. [8]

Film festival awards

Filmography

Film

List of acting and crew roles in feature film
YearTitleRoleCrew role, notesSource [14]
2008 Zombie Strippers Zombie
2013 Deadly Revisions Crawford DavisWriter and Director
TBAGarden Party MassacreLincolnDirector [15]
TBA Fang Harold [16]
TBA Death House Bennett's castTrailer posted

Television

List of acting performances in television
YearTitleRoleNotesSource [14]


Publications

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