Don Gregory

Produced on Broadway My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison, Camelot starring Richard Burton (and later Richard Harris), the award-winning Othello starring James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, for which Mr. Gregory won a Tony Award, Clarence Darrow starring Henry Fonda and the Belle of Amherst, for which Julie Harris won a Tony Award. Mr. Gregory also produced Dore Schary’s FDR with Robert Vaughn, which became a motion picture and Paul Robeson starring James Earl Jones, which became a TV special after its Broadway run. In addition, Mr. Gregory produced Nobody Don’t Like Yogi starring Ben Gazzara and brought to NY the long running British play The Woman in Black. His TV productions of “Clarence Darrow,” “The Belle of Amherst” and “Paul Robeson” won Christopher Awards. “Clarence Darrow” was also the recipient of the coveted Peabody and Emmy Awards. He produced the national tour of La Cage Aux Folles and the 25th anniversary tour of The Belle of Amherst starring Julie Harris. Mr. Gregory began his career as an actor, but then switched to the entrepreneurial side of show business by not only naming, but launching New York’s Coffee House movement, one of the great incubators for new talent. He later joined the Agency of the Performing Arts rising to the post of Vice President responsible for such clients as Harry Belafonte, Bobby Darin, Rowan and Martin, Frank Gorshin and Red Buttons. Mr. Gregory, an alumnus of the University of Connecticut, has been the Senior Advisor to the Fine Arts department of that University for the last 20 years. Mr. Gregory was Executive Producer of the CBS Movie of the Week “Fire in the Dark,” starring Olympia Dukakis, Lindsay Wagner and Jean Stapleton, the NBC movie “Father and Son: Dangerous Relations,” starring Louis Gossett Jr. and Blair Underwood, and “Harvey” starring Leslie Nielsen and Harry Anderson for Hallmark and CBS.