Stephen Greco bio (Advisory Board)
Stephen Greco is Executive Editor of Classical TV, the new internet destination for opera, ballet, modern dance, jazz, and theater performances.Formerly Editor-at-Large of Trace, the international magazine focusing on ”transcultural styles and ideas,” and Editorial Director and a co-founder of Platform.net, the first online community for worldwide youth culture (with equity support from Sony U.S.), Greco also served Trace’s advertising and marketing partners as Intelligence Director of Trace Marketing and Media.Greco’s experience with brand strategy and market intelligence includes the position of Intelligence Director of the True advertising agency (a partnership between Trace magazine and TBWA/Chiat Day) and consulting relationships with JWT, Landor, OfficeLAB, Gatard et Assiociés (FR), and Practical Semiotics (UK).
During 2007 and ’08, Greco served as Executive Director of Dance Theater Workshop, the 42-year-old, New York-based institution devoted to the development and presentation of cutting-edge, movement- and body-based contemporary art.
A former Senior Editor of Interview magazine, Stagebill, and the New York weekly, 7 Days, Greco has contributed features on the arts and entertainment, style and fashion, youth culture, and new media to publications such as The Advocate, American Way, Art News, Casa Vogue, Dancemagazine, Elle, Elle Decor, Empire, France, HX, Harper's Bazaar, Latina, the London Observer, the Journal of Movement Research, Manhattan File, New York magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times online, Opera News, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Among the hundreds of celebrity interviews Greco has done are: Maya Angelou, Geoffrey Beene, Trisha Brown, DJ Cam, Wes Craven, Merce Cunningham, Diane von Furstenberg, Frank Gehry, Allen Ginsberg, Arianna Huffington, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Randy Harrison, Patti LuPone, Gelsey Kirkland, Errol Morris, Nana Mouskouri, Mike Nichols, Yoko Ono, Sir Peter Pears, Ned Rorem, Aiden Shaw, Andre Leon Talley, and Donald Trump.
Greco’s first book, a collection of erotic fiction and non-fiction entitled The Sperm Engine (Green Candy) published in 2002, was nominated for a 2003 Lambda Literary Award and praised by Out magazine for its “breathless bravura." ("Readers will recognize a writer who ranks with the likes of Andrew Holleran.”) His first novel, Dreadnought, was serialized on Amazon in 2006 and ‘07, as part of the online retailer’s revolutionary publishing program, Amazon Shorts.The novel tells of “what happens when a big brand of unprecedented power stalks a global youth market of a billion souls.(Hint: everybody loses, but the party’s fun while it lasts.)” Dreadnought is currently under option for film. Greco is at work on a second novel.<.
Greco is chairman of the New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Awards committee, and currently serves also on the advisory boards of Noemi LaFrance/Sens Production and the Japan Society performing arts program. Greco is executive director of the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards, Inc., America's premier honors for lesbian and gay fiction, which he established in 1988 with the late editor and author George Stambolian.