Gregory Thomas García, is an American television director, producer and writer
Background
García grew up in Arlington County, Virginia, graduated from Yorktown High School, and attended Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland and participated in the Warner Brothers Writing for Television courses, which ultimately opened the door for him as a writer in Hollywood.
Career
He is the creator/executive producer of several long-running sitcoms, including Yes, Dear, My Name Is Earl (where he made seven cameo appearances), and Raising Hope. He has also worked for the series Family Matters and as a consulting producer on Family Guy. He developed two pilots for Columbia Broadcasting System for the 2013-2014 season, one of which, The Millers, was picked up.
While at Frostburg he was president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣAE) Fraternity, an experience that showed through in an episode of My Name Is Earl when a brother of the fictional Phi Alpha Fraternity hands out flyers, as Phi Alpha is the motto of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
García worked as a board operator for The Tony Kornheiser Show on WTEM radio. He was also an intern for the Don and Mike Show radio program in Fairfax Virginia.
I am in fact born and raised Catholic."
His name is mentioned in Entourage when writer"s agent Andrew Klein (Gary Cole) tells Ari Gold that he signed García with their agency in the series" season six premiere "Drive". During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, García worked as a cashier and janitor at a Burger King in Burbank, California.