Greg Thornton is an actor, director, playwright, and singer/songwriter. He has worked in many of the leading companies of the U.S., including the Old Globe, the Denver Center Theatre Company, the McCarter Theatre, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, the Cincinnati Playhouse, the GEVA Theatre, Playmakers Rep, the Pioneer Theater, the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival where he was a resident actor for twenty seasons. He was the Founding Artistic Director of the Cloverdale Playhouse. He has appeared in film and television and has recorded books for Audible.com. He portrays the lawyer and Civil Rights activist, Clifford Durr, in the recently released film Son of the South.