Greg Yaitanes Biography

Greg Yaitanes, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, has directed and produced more than 200 hours of television, including some of the most popular programs in the last two decades. Yaitanes is presently the showrunner, executive producer, and director of the forthcoming Cinemax series Quarry's first season. The program follows Mac Conway, a Marine who comes home to Memphis in 1972 after serving in Vietnam and finds himself outcast by his loved ones and reviled by the general population. Mac gets lured into a network of murder and corruption that spans the length of the Mississippi River as he battles to deal with his wartime memories. Yaitanes is also set to direct and executive produce other projects, including Spike's scripted drama Red Mars, Cinemax's crime thriller Micronesian Blues, and Discovery's true-crime drama Manifesto, which will center on the real-life FBI's efforts to apprehend The Unabomber. Yaitanes' wide resume includes shows like Lost, Damages, Grey's Anatomy, Ray Donovan, Heroes, Banshee, and House, M.D., in addition to his current ventures. In 2008, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for his work on House, M.D. With over 100 million viewers each week, House has become the most popular program on the planet. Greg has 29 Emmy nominations and six wins between House and Banshee, including the first Emmy nomination for work televised only online for Fox's Drive. Taiwanese professional drive has stretched beyond his role behind the camera, uniting Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Yaitanes has established a reputation for technical foresight through investments in start-up businesses such as Square and Twitter. Yaitanes is a frequent guest speaker on Twitter and invented live tweeting for television as one of the company's first investors. Yaitanes grew raised in the Massachusetts town of Wellesley. Yaitanes traveled to Los Angeles at the age of 18 to attend the famed School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, and by the age of 23, he had secured his first directing position. Yaitanes was so determined that he once waited for a 10-minute appointment with famed film producer Joel Silver for seven hours. Silver signed Yaitanes for a second film after seeing his work. Yaitanes' creative skill and perseverance have led to a successful television career in the director's chair since then. Yaitanes, who is active in the Greek community, assisted in the production of the Greek America Foundation's Gabby Awards and oversaw the Gabby Awards' opening ceremony on Ellis Island. Sheena Yaitanes, the inventor of Koss Cosmetics, is Greg's wife. Elle is their daughter, and the family, which also includes Greg's boys Van and Leo, splits their time between New York and Los Angeles.

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