My name is Gary. I live in Los Angeles. Studio City to be exact.
During high school I worked at the legendary Catch A Rising Star comedy club.
I am an art school drop-out.
My first job in TV was holding cue cards and doing set and prop designs for The Joan Rivers Show.
I lived in New York City during my 20’s, ironically I am still 26.
Long hours at MTV, VH1, Food Network, Lifetime, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Geraldo, Rolonda, Montel, and a handful of Off-Off Broadway theaters helped pay the rent.
I hosted and produced two public access shows.
I co-hosted a national show called Treasures In Your Home with my friend John Burke.
I hosted red carpet movie events, became Joan Rivers’ in-studio writer on her syndicated radio show and wrote some other funny stuff for comic friends.
I worked with Dan Zanes and helped him launch his Grammy winning kids music revolution, wrote for At The Multiplex on HBO and produced a monthly variety show at Carolines Comedy Club.
In 2001 I decided to move to Los Angeles…actually, the stock market crash, all of my shows getting canceled and September 11th helped that decision.
In Los Angeles I auditioned like crazy and continued to Art Direct and Production Design for television.
Ever see Girls Behaving Badly on Oxygen…I Production Designed all four seasons.
Shock Video on HBO? Did that too.
I spent the fall of 2002 in France writing for a little show you may have heard of called Joe Millionaire.
Around this time I started developing a show called #1 Single with Lisa Loeb.
Two years later E! Entertainment picked it up and I spent the winter of 2005 in New York City making it happen.
I am a member of the Art Directors Guild (Local 800).
I art directed all four seasons of Mind Of Mencia on Comedy Central, art directed Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil and Night On The Townsend for TBS.
Production Designed Chocolate News for Comedy Central, Man Stroke Woman for Fox and Guinness World Records Live for NBC and The Grind for Fox.
I created an MTV reality show for a band called Shut Up Stella, a pilot called Celebrity for TV Land and a reality show for songwriter, and new American Idol judge, Kara DioGuardi.
Last year I spent six months developing and shooting a comeback reality show for Ike Turner and now have a couple amazing boxes of tapes with his last months alive and we are now developing the definitive Ike documentary.
I have a production company with my friend Janet Billig called Sixteen Blue (named after the Replacements song) to make all of these projects come together.
I have listened to The Howard Stern Show every single day since 1983.
I buy way too much music.
I have an amazing wife who is 100 times more talented and clever than I am.
My sister Jamie rules.
I wear black t shirts.
I saw Andy Warhol walking in Soho in 1987.
I got married in October 2008.
I work with the most talented crew of Set Decorators, Graphic Designers, Prop Masters, Set Dressers, Buyers, Leadmen and Swing crew in Hollywood.
I have a dog named Oliver.
I need to sign off now.
THE LEAGUE Production Designer FX
SAVAGE LOVE Production Designer HBO
SHARK TANK Art Director ABC/ Mark Burnett
INSTANT RECALL Production Designer GSN
STRIPPED DOWN Production Designer ABC/ Harpo
DOGG AFTER DARK Production Designer MTV
TOP CHEF MASTERS Art Director Bravo/ Magical Elves
THE GRIND Production Designer Fox/ Bahr-Small Productions
NIGHT ON THE TOWNSEND Art Director (Pilot) TBS
CHOCOLATE NEWS Art Director (Pilot & Season 1) Comedy Central
88 DAYS WITH IKE (The Last Days of Ike Turner) Executive Producer Sixteen Blue Productions
THE McCAINGELS Production Designer ComedyCentral.com
MIND OF MENCIA Art Director (Seasons 1, 2, 3 & 4) Comedy Central
MAN STROKE WOMAN Production Designer Fox/ Fremantlemedia
SCREAM QUEENS Production Designer (Pilot) VH1/ Joke Productions
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS LIVE! THE TOP 100 Production Designer NBC
LEWIS BLACK’S THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL Art Director (Seasons 1 & 2) Comedy Central
THE SONGSTRESS (Kara DioGuardi series) Executive Producer (Presentation) Sixteen Blue Productions
TALKSHOW WITH SPIKE FERESTEN Art Director Fox
THE HARRY SHEARER WEBISODES Production Designer MyDamnChannel.com
TEMPTATION Art Director Fremantlemedia/ 20th Century Fox
SHUT UP STELLA Co-Executive Producer/ Co-Creator (Pilot) MTV/ Sixteen Blue Productions
THE JERRY MINOR SHOW Art Director HBO/ Simmons-Lathan
#1 SINGLE Supervising Producer/ Co-Creator E! Entertainment/ Stick Figure Productions
CAR JACKIN’ Production Designer MTV2/ Zoo Productions
SINGLE SINGER SEEKING Co-Executive Producer/ Co-Creator VH1/ Stick Figure Productions
GIRLS BEHAVING BADLY Art Director Seasons 1, 2, 3 & 4 Oxygen/ Zoo Productions
GIRLS BEHAVING BADLY: Revenge Of The Boys Art Director Oxygen/ Zoo Productions
HOW TO BE A SPRING BREAK PLAYA’ Production Designer MTV
FOR THE LOVE OF LISA Co-Executive Producer (Pilot) Stick Figure Productions
SHOCK VIDEO 2003 & 2004 Production Designer HBO/ World Of Wonder
JOE MILLIONAIRE Writer Fox/ Rocket Science Laboratories
CELEBRITY Co-Executive Producer/ Co-Creator (Pilot)
GORDON ELLIOTT’S DOORKNOCK DINNERS Art Director Food Network
HOUSE OF CLUES Prop Design (Pilot) World Of Wonder
CHIX Production Designer (Pilot) Studio V12 / ABC Family
ROCK COURT Set Dresser VH1 (Pilot)
LOVE & HARMONY Set Dresser VH1 (Pilot)
THE GIRL GAME Art Director Oxygen (Pilot)
GODZILLA: THE MOVIE Art Director Fox Press Junket
TREASURES IN YOUR HOME Co-Host PAX
THE JOAN RIVERS RADIO SHOW In-Studio Writer WOR Radio
HBO At the Multiplex with Judy Gold Writer
X-MEN WORLD PREMIERE on Ellis Island Host Popcast.com
OUR HOME Set Decorator Lifetime Television
ICAST.COM Live Music Host
LAS VEGAS CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW Host
SUPERCOMM EXPO Host
THE MONTEL WILLIAMS SHOW Prop Design Paramount
THE ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW Prop Design Warner Bros.
HANDMADE BY DESIGN Prop Design Lifetime Television
GERALDO Prop Design Tribune Entertainment
THE JOAN RIVERS SHOW Prop Design Tribune Entertainment
GOSSIP! GOSSIP! GOSSIP! Prop Design USA Networks
ROLONDA Prop Design King World
OBSESSED WITH GARY Host
GRIPE Host
IT’S JUDY’S SHOW at Caroline’s on Broadway Writer
FLATIRON MAGAZINE Writer
DAN ZANES/FESTIVAL FIVE RECORDS Initial Marketing & Promotion
THE GREENWICH HOUSE THEATER Off-Broadway Set Designer
THE PRINCE MUSIC THEATER Graphic Design
HD Vision Studios Los Angeles, Sony Music Studios, NTV Studio Productions, Gramercy Studios National Video 150+ press tours
Gourvitz Communications SMT Production Designer
Edelman Public Relations SMT Production Designer
UNION-Art Directors Guild & Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists IATSE Local 800
PRESS-Peterson’s Breaking Into Television, The Wall Street Journal, Cover Magazine
EDUCATION-School Of Visual Arts