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 then 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 and in regional venues. He began creating original theatre pieces after completing his MFA in playwriting at UCLA. The focus of his work over the last decade has been solo performance. He has performed his plays Border Stories, based on interviews he conducted with LGBT people on the U.S. – Mexico border, and When We Danced, based on interviews with senior and elderly LGBT people, in venues across 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 Adelina Anthony, 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. Shows he has directed (and/or choreographed) include: A Doll’s House, Ain't Misbehavin’, Cabaret, Confessions of Women from East L.A., Evita, Found a Peanut, Godspell, Into the Woods, La Ronde, Once on This Island, Our Town, Real Women Have Curves, and Santos & Santos. 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 the boards of Las Americas, an immigrant advocacy organization on the U.S. – Mexico border and Vermont CARES, an organization serving HIV and AIDS affected Vermonters. Gregory is a faculty member in the Theatre Department at The University of Vermont where he teaches directing, playwriting and courses related to diversity in the American Theatre.