Nationality American Role Writer | Name Gregor Collins Years active 2000–present Books The Accidental Caregiver | |
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Occupation Actor, Writer, Producer Alma mater Florida State University (BA) Movies Goodbye Promise, Blood Legend People also search for Karen Worden, David Branin, C.J. Wallis, Steven Soderbergh, Rusty Nelson | ||
Education Florida State University | ||
KATIE CHATS: GREGOR COLLINS, ACTOR/WRITER, GOODBYE PROMISE, THE ACCIDENTAL CAREGIVER, LA, 04/12
Gregor Collins (born August 22, 1976) is an American writer, actor, and producer, best known for playing Matt in the Underground film Goodbye Promise, and for writing the memoir The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann. He lives and works in New York.
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- KATIE CHATS GREGOR COLLINS ACTORWRITER GOODBYE PROMISE THE ACCIDENTAL CAREGIVER LA 0412
- Early life
- Career
- The Accidental Caregiver
- Stage Plays
- References
Early life
Gregor was born in Mountain View, California. He spent his childhood and adolescent years in the Washington, D.C. area and attended Centreville High School in Northern Virginia, where he was the top-seeded player on his school golf team. Collins subsequently received a golf grant to Ohio Wesleyan University, played for a semester, then transferred to Miami University for two more semesters before taking a year off to work as a production assistant for the television series World Business Review with Caspar Weinberger. He completed his undergraduate studies at Florida State University, where he majored in Media Production.
Career
Collins moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue a career in entertainment. He worked his way into producing various reality television shows such as Blind Date, The Mole season 4, and E!. In 2004 he began to pursue professional acting, eventually performing on stage, in television and in independent films, landing lead roles in the indie feature Night Before the Wedding and the improvised feature Goodbye Promise.
In October 2014 Collins moved to the Murray Hill, Manhattan section of New York, living with and serving as Companion (caregiving) to Austrian Painter Ruth Rogers-Altmann while he prepared a stage production of his book The Accidental Caregiver, about Rogers-Altmann's cousin Maria Altmann.
Collins has written essays for The Guardian, Focus (German magazine), Life Matters Media, Film Courage and Filmmaking Stuff, and has contributed to CINEMAEDITOR Magazine since 2013.
The Accidental Caregiver
In 2012 Collins published the memoir The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann, detailing his chance meeting and unusual bond with Gustav Klimt Heiress Maria Altmann, culminating in her death in early 2011.
In 2015 a Polish translation of the book was published.
Stage Plays
The Accidental Caregiver stageplay world premiered at the Robert Moss Theater in New York City on January 26, 2015, and was directed by British theatre director Alice Kornitzer. The play also had a staged reading at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York on June 25, 2015, which was directed by Collins. Actor Christian Scheider and actor and Museum of the Moving Image (New York City) founder Rochelle Slovin read the parts of Gregor and Maria, respectively.
In November 2015 Collins wrote the Oscar Wilde-inspired dark comedy Pentonville for the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York, which was directed by Jonathan Stuart Cerullo. In June 2016 Collins created, co-wrote and co-produced the black comedy series Stories for the People's Improv Theater in New York.
In January 2017 Collins' play The Secret World Inside Me was in development at the IATI Theater in New York.