Greg Triggs
GregTriggs@aol.com

Greg Triggs is the Show Director at the flagship World of Disney in New York where projects have included a show based on High School Musical and the premiere party for Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man’s Chest. Triggs is also a show director for Anheuser-Busch Entertainment; shows have included the Killer Whale show, Believe, The Rockin’ Ski Party, Shamu’s Halloween Creepshow and Waggin’ Tales, a musical featuring over 150 animals at SeaWorld San Antonio.  His show Sweet Dreams, a Musical Nightmare, was the centerpiece of Busch Gardens Halloween celebration. Recent clients include the BBC (Special Event planner, the Pros and the Con), TLC (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), ABC (Daytime Writing, Producer, Super Soap Weekend at Disney MGM), Carnegie Hall (writer/emcee, opening ceremonies, Zankel Hall), the Tribeca Film Festival (Consultant for sponsors Scholastic Publishing and South Africa Tourism) and Light the Night for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of New York which raised over $1,200,000.  A four year veteran of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Triggs was a Tour Coordinator for America Sings helping to oversee one of the world’s largest youth choirs. Other directing projects for Disney have included the opening of the Animal Kingdom and the Disney produced, Emmy-nominated 2000 Super Bowl Half Time Show.  He was also on the conceptualizing team for One Hundred Years of Magic, the official celebration of Walt Disney’s Centennial Birthday. Among other distinctions, Triggs was an inaugural “Partner in Excellence”, Disney’s highest recognition award.
            As an improviser he has worked with some of the premiere sketch comedy troupes in the country including the Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis and the Who, What and Warehouse Players at Disney’s Comedy Warehouse where he did over nine thousand shows as a member of the ensemble.  He is also a member of the touring company of Chicago City Limits, a member of the MAC Award Winning Ensemble of Next Big Broadway Musical and a regular player at ComedySportz New York. Triggs regularly teaches improvisation, trust and teamwork seminars for clients that have included The Disney Institute, the American Council of Mayors, Microsoft, the United States Navy, Capgemini, Ethicon and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals.  His work as a teacher and facilitator took him to Africa and the American School of Yaoundé where he taught the teaching staff, school administrators, missionaries and embassy personnel.  Columns, “Metro Diary” and “What Would Greg Do?” have been featured in Watermark Newspaper and Metro Source Magazine.  Writing credits include television and film treatments for clients such as the ABC Television Network, Oxygen and MGM.  For more information please visit www.GregTriggs.com.

Show Director

• Cinderella’s Princess Court, World of Disney, New York City
• High School Musical Pep Rally, World of Disney, New York City
• Believe, SeaWorld San Antonio
• Viva, SeaWorld San Antonio
• Waggin’ Tales, SeaWorld San Antonio
• The Rockin’ Ski Party, SeaWorld San Antonio
• Sweet Dreams; a Musical Nighmare, Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida
• Tapestry of Nations, Super Bowl XXXIV 2000 Half Time Show, featuring Phil Collins, Toni Braxton, Christina Aguilera and Enrique Iglesias; serving as Associate Show Director for Senior Show Director Gary Paben. Televised internationally for an audience of over one billion people.
• Creator, ABC Super Soap Spin, a trivia game show for Super Soap Weekend at the Disney MGM Studios, featuring daytime celebrities,  Hosted by Walt Willey from All My Children.
• Walt Disney World’s Pleasure Island on a per assignment basis conceptualizing special events, new club concepts, new entertainment concepts, and supervising all regular venues.
• Safari Quest (2003), Jungle Trek (2004), interactive family shows for the Philadelphia Zoo.
• I Spy, an interactive walking tour of the Tribeca neighborhood for Scholastic Publishing, a corporate sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival.
• Fairy Tales – winner, Best Production, Orlando Fringe Festival, 2002.  Called, “Buoyant and jubilant…expertly directed…” by The Orlando Sentinel.
• Orlando Theatre Project – The Lion in Winter, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Miss Firecracker Contest featuring Budge Threlkeld from the original New York cast.

Scripts

• Believe, SeaWorld San Antonio
• Rockin’ Ski Party, SeaWorld San Antonio
• Shamu's Rockin' Creepshow and Halo-Scream, SeaWorld San Antonio
• Sweet Dreams, a Musical Nightmare, Busch Gardens, Tampa
• Super Bowl XXXIV 2000 Half Time Show, Tapestry of Nations
• Safari Quest (2003) and Jungle Trek (2004), Philadelphia Zoo.
• How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall,  the premiere education program for Zankel Hall, the newest performance space at Carnegie Hall.
• Recipient of the Jeb Bush Governor’s Institute Playwriting Grant for teenagers.   Tomorrowland (2000), But I Don’t Like Her! (2001) and Too Commercial (2002)

Performer

• Emcee, Carnegie Hall
• Emcee, The Next Big Broadway Musical (MAC Award Winner)
• Ensemble, ComedySportz New York
• Ensemble, Chicago City Limits, Broadway Comedy Club, New York
• Ensemble, Comedy Warehouse at Disney’s Pleasure Island
• Ensemble, Brave New Workshop, Minneapolis, MN
• On Camera Wedding Planner, The Pros and the Con
• Audience Co-Host, Linda Dano Talk Show, and Wide World of Soaps with Rebecca Budig and Bob Guiney at ABC Super Soap Weekend
• Host, Disney’s Travel Agent of the Year Award, broadcast internationally
• Industrials for clients including Microsoft, Procter and Gamble, Buick, Chase Manhattan Bank, Pannera Bread, Nestle and Liz Clairborne.
• Actor for television series produced by Nickelodeon, the Disney Channel and Columbia Studios.
• Films including  Seduction, Ready Willing & Able, and  The Rise and Fall of Woody Woodhouse

Journalist

• Columnist, Metro Diary, Metro Source Magazine, distributed nationally.
• Columnist, What Would Greg Do?, Watermark (Orlando, FL) and Out and About (Nashville, TN).
• Nationally syndicated interviews with Paul Rudnick, Charles Busch, Sandra Bernhard, Bea Arthur and Lily Tomlin
• Out and About, an online travel magazine published by PlanetOut.com.  Profiles include New York City, the Spas of America, Nashville, Tennessee and Freeport, Maine.

Teacher/Facilitator/Keynote Speaker

• Disney Institute, Improvisation Seminars
• American School of Yaoundé, “The Power of Yes”, creativity seminars taught with teaching partner Mary Thompson Hunt.
• Jcoreyography, Nashville, TN, teaching annual programs (2003, 2004) designed for children, teenagers and adults, along with teaching partner Jennifer Bascom,.
• Performance Improvisation Workshops taught with partners Christine Decker and Jim Detmar, co-author of Improvise This, as published by Hyperion.
• Keynote "Speaker of the Mouse" at the Disneyana/Sotheby's Collectible Convention