Background
Greg O'Connor was born in Philadelphia.
Greg O'Connor was born in Philadelphia.
He has also scored radio and web commercials. Greg is a graduate of The University of Notre Dame’s Music School as well as the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program at USC. He also composed the underscore for all 3 seasons of the hidden camera series The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and the ABC Aaron Spelling cop drama 10-8 starring Ernie Hudson and Danny Nucci. He has written 2 Billboard Top 20 songs with collaborator James Pankow for the band Chicago as well as the song "Here With Me" for the Chicago album "Stone of Sisyphus." Greg produced 5 songs for the Barry Manilow album "The Greatest Songs of the Eighties" as well as Barry's hit Christmas single "Christmas is Just Around the Corner."
Greg was the Composer, songwriter and musical director for all 14 seasons of the hit sketch comedy show Mad TV, David Allen Grier’s comedy series Chocolate News, Jeff Foxworthy’s variety show Blue Collar TV and Bob Einstein’s series Super Dave Spike-Tacular.
Additionally, he was the musical director and composer for the ABC reality competition series The Next Best Thing. O'Connor most recently wrote and produced two songs for the film The Greening of Whitney Brown starring Kris Kristofferson, Aiden Quinn and Brooke Shields, one of which was performed by Brooke Shields. He wrote and produced three featured songs for Lori Petty’s directorial feature film debut The Poker House as well as two featured songs in the Lego movie Clutch Powers.
O'Connor produced and wrote songs for the animated Lionsgate movie Foodfight and produced 2 songs for Curb Records artist Kimberley Locke on the Camille soundtrack for Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy.