Greg Pak

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Greg Pak at the 2007 New York Comic-Con.

Greg Pak is an American New York-based film director/comic book writer.

1 Biography
2 Filmography
3 Bibliography
4 References

[edit] Biography

He is a graduate of Yale University and studied history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and film at NYU.

His early work is noted for its strong Asian American themes. His New York University (NYU) student film, Fighting Grandpa, about his Korean grandparents, won the Gold Medal at the 25th Student Academy Awards. His short film "Asian Pride Porn", starring playwright David Henry Hwang and director Michael Kang, was licensed to Atom Films. Pak's feature film Robot Stories won 35 film festival awards. He collected his critically acclaimed screenplays in the recent book Robot Stories & More Screenplays, whose foreword was written by David Henry Hwang, and which has been used in college classes in writing, film, and Asian American studies.

Pak is a frequent writer for such Marvel Comics titles such as Warlock, Phoenix: Endsong, Phoenix: Warsong, Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk, and Dynamite Entertainment's spinoff series based on the Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica.