Gregor Collins

Gregor is a writer, actor and producer living in New York. Starting his career in Los Angeles in reality television producing shows like Blind Date and Celebrity Mole, he shifted gears to acting, performing on stage in productions like Ronnie Larson’s 'Making Porn', and in films like the improvised indie feature 'Goodbye Promise', which he also produced and co-wrote. His writing has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Cinema Editor Magazine, and on Off-Broadway stages across New York. His acclaimed memoir 'The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann' was adapted into a stageplay in New York in 2015. Playwriting credits: 'The Accidental Caregiver' (Robert Moss Theater, Austrian Cultural...

Gregor is a writer, actor and producer living in New York. Starting his career in Los Angeles in reality television producing shows like Blind Date and Celebrity Mole, he shifted gears to acting, performing on stage in productions like Ronnie Larson’s 'Making Porn', and in films like the improvised indie feature 'Goodbye Promise', which he also produced and co-wrote. His writing has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Cinema Editor Magazine, and on Off-Broadway stages across New York. His acclaimed memoir 'The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann' was adapted into a stageplay in New York in 2015. Playwriting credits: 'The Accidental Caregiver' (Robert Moss Theater, Austrian Cultural Forum NY), 'Pentonville' (Manhattan Rep), 'The Uncharacteristically Brazen Elegance of William Harker Rosebush' (Pit Loft), 'Quatervois' (Theatre80), 'The Current Most Relevant Piece of Theater in All of North America' (Pit Loft), 'Miranda' (Manhattan Rep), 'The Secret World Inside Me' (Cimientos Play Development Program/IATI Theater).

Scripts

Lloyd Loves Diane

by Gregor Collins

Synopsis

Lloyd thinks showing up at Diane's house in the middle of the night holding a boombox above his head will win her back. Boy is he REALLY fucking wrong.

Lloyd thinks showing up at Diane's house in the middle of the night holding a boombox above his head will win her back. Boy is he REALLY fucking wrong.

The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann

by Gregor Collins

Synopsis

With the promise of Hollywood success around the corner, 30-year-old Gregor Collins agrees to do a favor for a friend and accept a temporary job as a caregiver for Maria Altmann, a 90-year-old Holocaust refugee from Austria. Reluctant at first, Gregor is eventually forced to face life, love and death in a way he would never have imagined. (This play is based on Gregor's acclaimed memoir of the same name.)

With the promise of Hollywood success around the corner, 30-year-old Gregor Collins agrees to do a favor for a friend and accept a temporary job as a caregiver for Maria Altmann, a 90-year-old Holocaust refugee from Austria. Reluctant at first, Gregor is eventually forced to face life, love and death in a way he would never have imagined. (This play is based on Gregor's acclaimed memoir of the same name.)

The Secret World Inside Me

by Gregor Collins

Synopsis

The Secret World Inside Me opens the door into the mysterious life of Danny Allen, an ornery drifter who turns up at a therapist’s office warning of his plan to kill himself in exactly 57 minutes. What unfolds over the next hour is a galvanizing, suspenseful, metaphysical nosedive into the cryptic chasms of a wily psyche, thrusting client and therapist into an unearthly realm from which they can never return.

The Secret World Inside Me opens the door into the mysterious life of Danny Allen, an ornery drifter who turns up at a therapist’s office warning of his plan to kill himself in exactly 57 minutes. What unfolds over the next hour is a galvanizing, suspenseful, metaphysical nosedive into the cryptic chasms of a wily psyche, thrusting client and therapist into an unearthly realm from which they can never return.

The Current Most Relevant Piece of Theater in all of North America

by Gregor Collins

Synopsis

If you're a playwright who's ever thought about ringing an Off-Broadway artistic director's neck, shaking them around a little, and screaming: 'Are you seriously kidding me right now?', then reading this play will probably make your day.

If you're a playwright who's ever thought about ringing an Off-Broadway artistic director's neck, shaking them around a little, and screaming: 'Are you seriously kidding me right now?', then reading this play will probably make your day.

The Uncharacteristically Brazen Elegance of William Harker Rosebush

by Gregor Collins

Synopsis

Billy is seated on a park bench minding his own business when a man in a suit sits down next to him with a proposition: He will give Billy one million dollars if he answers one simple question. What happens next is something no one - not even the writer of this play - could have ever thought possible.

Billy is seated on a park bench minding his own business when a man in a suit sits down next to him with a proposition: He will give Billy one million dollars if he answers one simple question. What happens next is something no one - not even the writer of this play - could have ever thought possible.

Pentonville

by Gregor Collins

Synopsis

Bryce Pinkerton has just snapped awake on a hard floor, in an empty room, dressed like a 19th Century aristocrat. Disoriented, agitated, and without a moment to consider what may have happened the night before, a guard leads him to a mysterious prisoner who has some answers... just not quite the ones Elliot was looking for.

Bryce Pinkerton has just snapped awake on a hard floor, in an empty room, dressed like a 19th Century aristocrat. Disoriented, agitated, and without a moment to consider what may have happened the night before, a guard leads him to a mysterious prisoner who has some answers... just not quite the ones Elliot was looking for.

Miranda

by Gregor Collins

Synopsis

Miranda has eagerly returned home to tell her boyfriend Shane, a brazen Columbus cop whose birthday is today, that she has gotten him a “different” kind of gift this year: An audition for a reality TV pilot featuring the home lives of real life police officers. What begins as an innocuous comedy ends in a pulse-pounding thriller.

Miranda has eagerly returned home to tell her boyfriend Shane, a brazen Columbus cop whose birthday is today, that she has gotten him a “different” kind of gift this year: An audition for a reality TV pilot featuring the home lives of real life police officers. What begins as an innocuous comedy ends in a pulse-pounding thriller.

Quatervois

by Gregor Collins

Synopsis

On the surface Elliot Bradley has the perfect life: He goes to church every Sunday, he’s a beloved high school teacher in a low-income area of Los Angeles, and he has a loving wife and a bright son. But when his womanizing little brother Danny suddenly shows up after being MIA for months and shatters the “perfect life” Elliot thought he always had, Elliot is thrown head-first into a turbulent, time-traveling...

On the surface Elliot Bradley has the perfect life: He goes to church every Sunday, he’s a beloved high school teacher in a low-income area of Los Angeles, and he has a loving wife and a bright son. But when his womanizing little brother Danny suddenly shows up after being MIA for months and shatters the “perfect life” Elliot thought he always had, Elliot is thrown head-first into a turbulent, time-traveling trek to meet three of the greatest artistic geniuses the world has ever known. Through these enlightening brushes with greatness, Elliot is forced to confront who he is, where he’s going, and what it means to truly love.