Greg Silva is a Chicago-based writer, musician and producer. He studied filmmaking at Regent University in Virginia, where he scored and/or orchestrated a number of award-winning movies. In 1987, “Bird In a Cage”, which he co-orchestrated, won the National Student Academy Award.
His plays have been produced in New Play festivals in Virginia and Chicago. In 1991, he founded the Actors’ Theatre of Virginia. In 1999, he moved to Chicago, where he founded Scratch Media, a performing arts production company that specializes in recording the performing arts, as well as producing original works for both stage and screen.
He has written songs, performed piano accompaniment, and/or taught song-writing at the Second City Training Center and ImprovOlympic, both in Chicago. He and a co-producer were recently invited to show a short movie that Greg shot, “Gin & Broads”, at the Vail Film Festival. A feature-length movie, “Bettie Page Uncensored”, about the life of the notorious 1950s pin-up queen, is currently being distributed on DVD. “Clown Head”, a multi-media musical fantasy for the stage, premiered in Chicago in the summer of 2004. His latest collaboration (with Suzy Conn), "NAKED IN AMERICA--the Musical!", has received staged readings in both Chicago and Los Angeles.
