Trivia

Performed live improv at Gilligan's Rotating Improv Players at the Neon Venus Art Theatre in Las Vegas for 2 years.

Plays clarinet and has done so for music festivals, musical plays, concert bands, and at exhibits during the ClarinetFest convention.

Has filmed in the famed Lance Burton Theatre Stage at the Monte Carlo Hotel-Casino (now the Park Theater at the Park MGM Hotel-Casino) and the Horn Theater in Las Vegas for various productions.

Frequently collaborates with actors and friends Stephen Moore, Junie George Maddox III and Sean Patrick Flaherty.

Owns a very diverse and extensive collection of movies and TV series.

Has 6 tattoos on his arms and shoulders and loves piercings.

Sat front passenger seat in George Lazenby's car as he drove high speeds on Los Angeles freeways and roadways with crew and friends trying to catch up, literally "a car chase with James Bond.".

Considers Orson Welles his filmmaking hero.

An avid fan of the James Bond movie series since he was 5 years old.

Owns an authentic autograph from actor Robert Shaw before his death in 1978 and an official production script from the set of The Exorcist (1973) in his personal stash of memorabilia.

Thanked in the preface of "Jaws 2: The Making of the Hollywood Sequel," the nonfiction paperback about the making and cultural impact of Jaws 2 (1978). He assisted in setting up interviews and initial research from the film's director Jeannot Szwarc, a similar series of arrangements he accomplished during the production of The Shark is Still Working (2007), where he is also credited.

Loves sketching in charcoal, typically sketching very fast and vigorously.

Ran into Dave Grohl backstage after a Tenacious D concert and took a photo alongside him thinking he was just an eager theatre manager. He didn't realize who he was until months later.

The etymology of the last name Van Cott is Dutch. It derives from the local Katsenaers and the town Colijnsplaat combining in Northern Holland in 1598, the area is known today as Kats. Therefore, his literal name is Greg of Cats ("Watchful of Cats" if you additionally translate the Latin root of Gregorius into English = 'watchful').

Performed in a stage production of Tosca, mid-June 2022 as chief, mute henchman, Enzo. Also performed in part of the Chorus in Act I. The opus marked the return of theatre at University of Nevada Las Vegas after going dark for 2 years during COVID-19.

Performed in the Rainbow Co's stage production of Sherlock Holmes and the First Baker Street Irregular by Brian Guehring, September 30th-October 2nd and October 7th-9th 2022 for 8 shows at the Charleston Heights Arts Center, as 3 1/2 characters: psychotic American frontiersman Jefferson Hope (and Jefferson Hope assuming the identity of Lucy Ferrier Sawyer), Irish pawnshop owner and victim Jabez Wilson and morally gray Englishman hotel attendant James Ryder. The play's characters emanate from multiple Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The play has been marketed has having an Angels in America quality for supporting actors playing more than one character.

Cast and performed as Harold the apprentice angel in a stage production of The Gathering at Irvine's TerraNova Theater for a December 4th-5th 2023 run.

Performed in a stage production of La Boheme for a June 7th-9th 2024 run as Jacques the waiter; reuniting with director Octavio Cardenas and featured most of his same crew from his directed play, Tosca, two years prior.

Performed in The Speeding Theatre's stage production of Adaptation by Elaine May, September 21st and September 27th-28th 2024 for 4 shows at the Mountain View Community Center for its first show and then the Winchester Dondero Arts Center for three performances as 5+ characters: Taxi Driver, Mark the High Schooler, Kappa Kappa Kappa jock, Barron Hilton, Grady the Irish accountant and various students. The play is a meta/dark comedy send-up of the late 1960's and makes comical predictions into the 1980's of main character Phil Benson's life; mentioning numerous historical figures and satirizing publicly criticized newsworthy events. Adaptation was doubled billed with the original musical, Matched, by Missy Parker.