About Greg Miller

Greg is an author, educator, and writing coach.

He has worked as a screenwriter, journalist, writing teacher, and producer in TV, film, print, radio, audio, and stage.

He’s the author of two books for writers, “How To Be A Writer Who Writes” and “Miller’s Compendium“, has written for Writer’s Digest, Premiere, LA Weekly, and Entertainment Weekly, and has pitched, sold, written, and produced feature film and tv projects for Fox, Disney, Dino De Lautrentiis, Oxygen, MTV, and Comedy Central.

As a writing coach, he has helped NY Times best-selling authors, TV showrunners, Hollywood screenwriters, and absolute beginners for over 20 years. He has taught at UCLA Extension, LA Times Festival of Books, LA Gay & Lesbian Center, Kripalu Center, Humber College, Improv Olympics, Skirball Center, Media Bistro, Teen Canteen, PushPush Theater Atlanta, NY Institute of Technology, and Story Expo, and has a perfect “10” rating in all categories on Allexperts.com. He served on the Board of Directors and Programming Committee for IWOSC (Independent Writers of Southern California), where he has organized and moderated panels and taught workshops on rewriting, non-fiction, comedy, TV and other topics.

Greg can help you with you book, script, or other writing project. Read more about his creative consulting here. Email gregorymilleris [at] gmail.com to schedule a free intake session by phone, zoom, or faceTime.

Greg specializes in personal storytelling and comedy. He was the co-creator and founding producer of Un-Cabaret, LA’s seminal alternative standup comedy show, which featured a who’s who of progressive comedians including Julia Sweeney, Margaret Cho, Laura Kightlinger, Taylor Negron, Patton Oswalt, Judy Toll, Michael Patrick King, Dana Gould, Merrill Markoe, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, Andy Kindler, Kathy Griffin, Jeff Garlin, Sherri Shepherd, Judd Apatow, Larry Charles, and many others. Greg produced the show onstage at venues including Luna Park, Getty Center, Lollapalooza, the Great American Music Hall, the Friars Club, and Highways. He Executive Produced the show for Comedy Central, and on audio for Sirius Satellite Radio, Comedy World Radio, and several indie CDs. He also booked and produced the seminal storytelling spoken-word show, “Say the Word”, which featured veteran comedy writers from “Saturday Night Live”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “30 Rock”, “Sex and the City”, and others, reading their own first-person stories at the Skirball Center, the Knitting Factory NY and LA.

He also co-created, programmed, and produced “The Other Network“, a festival of the best un-aired TV pilots ever made, introduced by their creators (including Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel, Ben Stiller, Conan O’Brien, Bob Odenkirk, Darren Star, Seth McFarlane) and “Say the Word”, an ongoing series of reading events featuring first-person non-fiction from top comedy writers including Bruce Wagner, George Meyer, Merrill Markoe, Cindy Chupack, Dimetri Martin, Alan Zweibel, Teri Garr, others in an ongoing series at the Skirball Center, Warhol Museum, Joe’s Pub, Knitting Factory LA & NY, the Players Club. He also produced “The Other Network Writers’ Room“, an educational audio series for comedy writers.

Working in TV, Greg produced Comedy Central’s “Hi-Octane” with Sofia Coppola, Zoe Cassavetes, Flea, produced and directed the stand-up series “The Sweet Smell of Excess” with Margaret Cho, Michael Patrick King, Moon Zappa, others for the Recovery Network, Executive Produced MTV’s talk show pilot, “The Couch” with Beth Lapides, John C. Reilly, and Andy Dick, and was Multi-Media Producer for HBO’s “HBO Workshop Presents” with Greg Behrendt and Paul F. Tompkins. He has served as Creative Consultant for Comedy Central/Julia Sweeney’s “Pulp Comics”, Talent Consultant for the Sci-Fi Channel, Staff News Producer for the CBC, produced several independent documentaries, and developed projects for HBO, Disney, Evolution, Oxygen, Stone-Stanley, Union of Concerned Scientists, ACLU/Court TV. Greg was also Producer of “The Coming Out Party”, a concert film featuring gay and lesbian comedians telling stories about coming out of the closet, produced by Creative Light, starring Terry Sweeney, John Riggi, Bob Smith, Rene Hicks, Dan Renzi, Jackie Beat.

Greg has worked extensively in radio and audio. He wrote and produced news and features for NPR, CBC, Premiere Radio, Pacifica, Warner Audio, SANE, Sirius, XM, NPR, BBC, produced over 100 episodes of Un-Cabaret Stories & Standup for audible.com, and over a dozen CDs for his own indie label UC Records. He produced a daily live radio show for Comedy World, hosted by Beth Lapides, with guests including Dee Dee Ramone, Mr. Winkle, Eric Bogosian, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ahmet Zappa, Candace Bushnell, Kennedy, the Playboy Advisor, members of Matchbox 20, Nashville Pussy, Supreme Beings of Leisure, L7, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals, the Go Go’s, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more. He produced and edited books on tape for Warner Audio, and wrote & produced “Radioarcade”, a radio-drama starring Eli Wallach and Eric Bogosian (funded by the NEA, aired on NPR and CBC).

Greg is a PR and marketing veteran, who has planned and co-ordinated local and national publicity campaigns covered in People, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, NY Times, LA Times, TV Guide, NPR, CNN, and many local papers.

Greg began his career producing live theater, music, video installations and performance events for The Kitchen in NY, where he worked with Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Nam June Paik, Eric Bogosian, Vito Acconci, et. al. He has been a professional script reader for Columbia, UA, and TriStar, worked as a NYC bike messenger, an usher at the Metroplitan Opera and a ‘sweathog’ on “Welcome Back Kotter”. He attended Ethical Culture, Fieldston and the Elizabeth Seeger School and studied history and journalism at NYU.