Greg Pak | |
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Born |
Dallas, Texas United States |
August 23, 1968
Residence |
New York City, New York United States |
Nationality | American |
Education |
New York University Oxford Yale University |
Occupation | Writer, comics creator, director |
Employer |
DC Comics Marvel Comics |
Known for |
Action Comics Batman/Superman Planet Hulk World War Hulk Incredible Hercules Storm |
Awards | Rhodes Scholar |
Website | Official website |
Greg Pak is an American film director and comic book writer, known for his work on books published by Marvel Comics, including X-Treme X-Men and several titles featuring the Hulk. As of early 2016, Pak writes The Totally Awesome Hulk for Marvel, Action Comics and Teen Titans for DC.
Pak was born in Dallas, Texas to a Korean father and American mother, and graduated from Hillcrest High School.http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2013/02/dallas-native-and-disd-grad-greg-pak-tapped-to-write-dc-comics-new-batmansuperman.html He studied political science at Yale University, where he wrote for the campus humor magazine, The Yale Record, and was a member of the Purple Crayon improvisational group. In 1991 he went to study history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar with the intent of becoming a politician. He then entered New York University's graduate film program.
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.