About Me

 Born and raised in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Greg Burdick has worked for close to three decades as a public high school theatre educator and director in the state of Florida.

In 1993, he received his degree in education from Slippery Rock University. While there, he was active in the school’s theatre department, and had the exceedingly good fortune to be part of several new work projects, nurturing the efforts of emerging playwrights.

As a theatre director with nearly one hundred productions to his credit, he has remained passionate about fostering student writing, and has helped many young artists realize the thrill of transforming their own words from page to stage. 

 Burdick’s short play, INSERT TOKEN, was selected for production at BoxFest Detroit, 2016, at Planet Ant Theatre, and was a Financial Scholarship winner for its director, Mycah Leigh Artis. The play was most recently produced by New Jersey’s Rhino Theatre.

In October of 2016, Burdick was the celebrated Playwright of the Month at Baltimore’s “A Work In Progress Theatre,” where his two-act drama, MONESSEN FALLS, received a staged reading at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center. The play made its U.S. Premiere in August of 2019, produced by Good Luck Macbeth Theatre of Reno, Nevada.

His short play SECRET'S OUT was selected for production as part of Theatre Odyssey’s Twelfth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. It was presented in the Jane B. Cook Theatre at the Asolo Center for the Performing Arts in Sarasota, Florida. 

His full length drama AGENT OF CHANGE was featured as part of the 2019 Jan McArt New Play Reading Series at Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Florida, directed by Wayne Rudisill.

Burdick’s work has also been developed at Athena Theatre, through their “Athena Reads” initiative in New York City, where his play ACCOMMODATION received a private reading. The play received further development with Ignition Arts of Oklahoma City, OK at the Lyric Theatre, Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol in The Villages, FL, and the Fantasy Theatre Factory in Miami, FL.  The play made its World Premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, CA in 2023, and is available from Dramatists Play Service.

Greg is a 2024 STAR Teacher/Artist Resident at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. He is the winner of the Verna Safran Prize for his short play SIGN HERE FOR ALL THAT REMAINS, staged by Odyssey Theatre at the Asolo Center for the Performing Arts in Sarasota, FL.  Other production credits include his thriller, TATTOO: A TALE OF TERROR at Radio Theatre Project’s Studio@620 in St. Petersburg, FL, and I’LL LOVE YOU ‘TIL THE COWS COME HOME staged by Itinerant Theatre of Lake Charles, LA, and featured at the Bird Theatre Festival In Tottori, Japan. 

Greg is affiliated with the CodeRed Playwrights collective: a group of writers from all over the nation who have penned short royalty-free works memorializing incidents of gun violence in schools and places of worship. His play A SHELL OF WHO SHE ONCE WAS, part of their #FAITH series, has been seen on stages in Eugene, OR, Minneapolis, MN, Seattle, WA,  Ames, IA, and New York City.

Proud member, and former Ambassador of the Dramatists Guild, he lives in central Florida.