Greg Wood
Biography
Broadway debut. Recent: national tour of To Kill a Mockingbird, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Walnut St
Theatre. Film & TV: The Sixth Sense, Signs, “The Blacklist,” “Evil,” “Dr. Death,” “Law & Order,” “Ed,” “Homicide.”
Credits
Our Town, Othello
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