Gregory Scott Houghton(I)
- Writer
As a boy, Gregory Houghton lived a few blocks from a dollar theater. He would mow lawns around the neighborhood for "movie money", then hit the dollar theater where he would watch as many films as possible that passed through-often spending entire days there, watching the same film over and over in a six-hour period. In high school, Gregory and his best friend would make short films-editing them from VCR to VCR-and showing them to friends on the weekend. College is when it happened. After coming very near to finishing a major in Philosophy, he left for Berlin to pursue and opportunity to work in the German film and TV industry. It was there he wrote his first screenplay.
After discovering a passion for screenwriting, he returned to set up shop in LA, taking up a series of positions along the way: assistant at Red Hour, script reader for Industry Entertainment, script doctor, script analyst, and, well... bartender. Gregory has won numerous awards and contests for both film and TV. In 2021, he went 4 for 4 in the Chicago Screenplay Awards, having two pilots and two features place as semifinalist or better, with his pilot Trailer Park Alli taking Top 10 Finalist (following a Finalist placement in the Los Angeles Screenplay awards). Gregory has optioned and sold a number of scripts, as well as developed scripts for companies such as Atlas Entertainment, Giant Pictures, Vincent Newman Ent., Image Nation and more. He is the original creator and co-writer of the award-winning movie Growing Up Smith, which garnered numerous festival wins and accolades before hitting theaters in 2017.
Most important fact of all: Gregory prefers a spoon over a folk and believes all things can be eaten with a bowl and spoon.
After discovering a passion for screenwriting, he returned to set up shop in LA, taking up a series of positions along the way: assistant at Red Hour, script reader for Industry Entertainment, script doctor, script analyst, and, well... bartender. Gregory has won numerous awards and contests for both film and TV. In 2021, he went 4 for 4 in the Chicago Screenplay Awards, having two pilots and two features place as semifinalist or better, with his pilot Trailer Park Alli taking Top 10 Finalist (following a Finalist placement in the Los Angeles Screenplay awards). Gregory has optioned and sold a number of scripts, as well as developed scripts for companies such as Atlas Entertainment, Giant Pictures, Vincent Newman Ent., Image Nation and more. He is the original creator and co-writer of the award-winning movie Growing Up Smith, which garnered numerous festival wins and accolades before hitting theaters in 2017.
Most important fact of all: Gregory prefers a spoon over a folk and believes all things can be eaten with a bowl and spoon.
