Greg Van Cott

Asian-American, Hawaiian born islander, Gregory (always prefers Greg) Quivos Van Cott is an actor, filmmaker, YouTube vlogger and musician. He descended from Filipino-Spanish heritage from the maternal side and Dutch-English-Irish-Scottish-Norwegian-Danish-German from the paternal, making him a typical "melting pot" of ethnically-diverse Millennials. Director Bradford May made a shout out to him as "an honest, sharp millennial, a good listener with a talent for understanding subtleties in story." His father is a retired Major in the United States Air Force and Vietnam War Veteran that now works as a unit commander in The Civil Air Patrol, and due to his father's time in the Air Force, his family moved often throughout the US including Honolulu, HI / Avalon, CO / York County, VA / Nellis, NV till finally residing in Sunrise Manor, NV. He excelled in school (albeit hopping from school to school and was vocally not fond of the education system's hang-ups) where he successfully flew/skipped past grades in favor of the Gifted and Talented Education program. He developed hobbies in drawing and playing the clarinet in school talent shows; limiting any professional possibility as a clarinetist to only "doodling" at his father's music business convention booth at ClarinetFest. His very first on-camera appearance was for a 1996 school PSA called Earth Day Recycling, exhibiting his interests in the environment and informative learning. He graduated from UNLV with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Film and Theatre, including off-shoot studies into entertainment law and psychology/sociology. He has written and directed a couple of features and several short films including All Eyes on Charlie, Let's Talk, and My Dinner with Othello as well as acting in many other directors' projects. On stage, he has performed in productions of Balm in Gilead, GRIP, Angel City, Simpatico, and Pecos Bill. He, to much of his surprise whilst still in the UNLV program, was hired as an Improv/Scene Study/Advanced Acting teacher at Casting Call Entertainment Acting School for 7 years, till it sadly closed in 2015 along with many other acting schools due to the state voting against tax incentives for the arts. He has enjoyed collaborations with one of his childhood heroes George Lazenby, documentary filmmakers Erik Hollander, James Gelet & Jake Gove, movie convention organizers Matt Sherman and Donna Honig, noted acting instructor Tom Todoroff and producer/acquisitions/manager Sharry Flaherty. In his spare time, Greg enjoys watching movies, listening to music, great food and constant traveling. YouTube channel FlikerTheatre: youtube.com/user/FlikerTheatre/videos