- An actor and writer, this native of Chester Pennsylvania is a graduate of Howard University's Department of Drama, earning a B.F.A. in 1977. He, along with his actress-wife Margaret Bynum Holtz, are the founding directors of the Real Life Theater Ministry in Harlem.
Working in the mediums of theater, film and television, Mr. Holtz brings more than thirty years of experience in the professional arena. Among his acting credits are Jonin' (off- Broadway), America's Most Wanted (TV), Michael Jackson's Bad (music video), and Heavy (feature film). His writing credits include Black Codes from the Underground (a Lincoln Center Director's Lab production 1999), The Anansi X- 5000, Malcolm X... Unfinished Business, Look At Me (presented at The Women's Prayer Summit at Madison Square Garden), Trip This (presented at the Apollo Theater), A Christ Mass Story, and his newest work Granmma's Hands.
Mr. Holtz has also worked for years as an arts educator. Through the decades he has served as a Teaching Artist in Residence with the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, Playwright's Theater of New Jersey, NJPAC, the New York Shakespeare Festival's Playwriting in the Schools Program, Community Works, Mind Builders-Positive Youth Troupe, New York University's Creative Arts Team, The Children's Art Carnival, and Theater for the Forgotten's Changing Scenes. In the summer of 2008, Mr. Holtz served as a Cultural Envoy to South Africa through U.S. Department of State as a playwright.
Focusing his attention on TV production, he co-founded Black World Studios with entertainment executive Sam David.- IMDb Mini Biography By: SDM
- Is a highly respected Teacher of Theatre in the New York tri-state area, and co-founder of Harlem's Real Life Theater Ministries.
- Greg and Margaret (an aspiring actress) met a few weeks later when they were both cast in the play "Whatever Happened to Amos and Andy". Greg was Lightin'. Margaret was Sapphire. "We started making "goo-goo eyes" backstage; seven months later Margaret and Greg got married. They had a whirlwind relationship: Met April 12, 1982. Got married December 31, 1982. Their first child was born March 16, 1983.
- Greg was in the delivery room each time to see all four of his children being born.
- In 2011, Greg produced "A Christ Mass Story" with packed performances and overwhelming success. It was a Black musical that Greg himself wrote.
- In the early days of his acting career, Greg used to perform at children's birthday parties as Jocko the Clown. Jocko didn't talk. He communicated via pantomime and a homemade trumpet. He used to travel to his gigs in full costume on the New York subways. The first time his wife Margaret ever saw Greg was at a play reading at Frank Silvera's Writers Workshop in Harlem and because Greg had a gig right afterwards, he was in his full-clown makeup.
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