Gregory Ramos was born and raised in Santa Monica, California. He began performing and directing theatre at the age of 10 and studied Ballet and Jazz at dance studios in and around Los Angeles. Gregory began his professional career as a dancer in television shows, films and stage shows in Las Vegas, Berlin and Tokyo. He went on to study acting at Playwrights Horizons in New York City, and privately with Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn.
He subsequently appeared in several TV commercials and sitcoms. As a theatre performer he has toured the U.S appearing in The King and I with Yul Brynner (his first job as a member of Actors’ Equity Association) and later with Rudolf Nureyev. He also performed in the U.S. and European tours of West Side Story. This latter tour provided a five year stint to live and perform in Berlin, Paris, Munich, Rome, and Glasgow. When not touring, Gregory appeared in numerous plays in Los Angeles and New York. He began creating original theatre pieces after completing his MFA in playwriting at UCLA. His play Border Stories, based on interviews he conducted with LGBT/queer people on the U.S. – Mexico border, has been performed in Austin, Texas, and Gregory has performed a solo version of the play in numerous venues around the country including Columbia University, Rutgers University and The University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2008 he performed Border Stories at the FlynnSpace in Burlington, Vermont as a fundraiser for VermontCARES, a statewide organization that serves individuals with HIV and AIDS. He has performed other original solo works at theatre conferences and symposiums around the country.

When he was on the theatre faculty at The University of Texas at El Paso, he created the Latino Guest Artist program and served as artistic director of The Border Public Theatre. While there, he was responsible for bringing numerous well known Latino and Latina theatre artists to the border region, including Edit Villarreal, Josefina Lopez, Lupe Ontiveros, Octavio Solis and McArthur Genius Fellow, Luis Alfaro. Gregory’s one-act play Reaching Mercy was performed in New York City as part of the Samuel French Summer One-Act Play Festival and his short play Breasts was produced by The Working Group Theatre Company. Shows he has directed (and/or choreographed) include: Once on This Island, Evita, Cabaret, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Santos & Santos, Real Women Have Curves, Confessions of Women from East L.A., Our Town, La Ronde, Found a Peanut and Into The Woods. Gregory also worked in New York City as a marketing executive on Broadway shows with a special focus on diversity outreach. He was on the marketing team for The Color Purple, Brooklyn—The Musical, Avenue Q, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life and Mamma Mia! He has served on The Texas Commission on the Arts Performing Arts Panel and was a board member of Las Americas, an immigrant advocacy organization on the U.S. – Mexico border. Gregory teaches directing, playwriting and courses related to diversity in the American Theatre. He is a member of the theatre faculty at The University of Vermont and is currently working on a new solo performance piece based on interviews with elderly LGBT/queer people.