An editor and media executive as well as an author, Stephen Greco is Executive Editor of Classical TV (www.classicaltv.com), the internet destination for opera, ballet, modern dance, jazz, and theater videos; and Editor-at-Large of Trace, the international magazine focusing on "transcultural styles and ideas." A former Senior Editor of Interview magazine, Stagebill, and the New York weekly, 7 Days, Greco has served as Intelligence Director of the True advertising agency (a partnership between Trace magazine and TBWA/Chiat Day) and a regular consultant on brand strategy and market intelligence to JWT, Landor, Office LAB, Gatard et Associés (FR), and Practical Semiotics (UK). Greco has contributed features on the arts and entertainment, style and fashion, youth culture, and new media to publications such as The Advocate, American Way, aRude, Art News, Casa Vogue, Dance Magazine, Elle, Elle Decor, Empire, France, HX, Harper's Bazaar, Latina, the London Observer, the Journal of Movement Research, Manhattan File, New York magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times online, Opera News, and the San Francisco Chronicle.Among the hundreds of celebrity interviews Greco has done are: Maya Angelou, Geoffrey Beene, Trisha Brown, DJ Cam, Cameron Carpenter, Wes Craven, Merce Cunningham, Diane von Furstenberg, Frank Gehry, Allen Ginsberg, Arianna Huffington, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Randy Harrison, Patti LuPone, Gelsey Kirkland, Errol Morris, Nana Mouskouri, Mike Nichols, Yoko Ono, Sir Peter Pears, Ned Rorem, Aiden Shaw, Andre Leon Talley, and Donald Trump.Greco is executive director of the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards, Inc., America's premier honors for lesbian and gay fiction, which he co-established in 1988. During 2007 and '08, Greco served as Executive Director of Dance Theater Workshop, the respected, New York-based institution devoted to the development and presentation of cutting-edge, movement- and body-based contemporary art.AUTHOR PHOTO BY PAYAM RAHIMIAN