Greg Oliver Bodine is a New York City actor and playwright, who recently performed his critically acclaimed one-man play Poe, Times Two – two short adaptations of E.A. Poe’s classic, horror stories, The Cask of Amontillado and The Black Cat at WorkShop Theater Company, 312 West 36th Street in Manhattan. Joe Franklin of Bloomberg Radio lauded the performance as "a serious appreciation of Edgar Allan Poe’s understanding of our fears and madness." Ronald Gross of the New York Theater Buying Guide equally praised the show as "a scary, stunningly staged, high-fright homage to the creator of the horror story.”

Greg’s other page-to-stage adaptations in the 'Genre of the Macabre' include his full-length play, Wicked Tavern Tales, now published by Indie Theater Now, a short, solo, female version of Poe’s The Tell-tale Heart, H.P. Lovecraft’s classic short, horror story, The Hound (a chilling, gruesome tale about grave-robbing) and Dark Soundings - a solo adaptation of two nautically-themed horror stories, The Screaming Skull and The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford, which Greg has been touring at Seaport Museums and 'Haunted Ship' Halloween festivals since 2008 through his Long Island-based theatre company, North Shore Theatre Group.

Greg will be performing Poe, Times Two next Fall at Cape May Stage, and in October 2013, he will be teaming up with artist, Jason McKittrick of Cryptocurium Custom Chocolates & Candies, whose recent foray into creating horror-themed, ‘handmade edible art’ became a hit at the 2011 NJ Zombie Walk in Asbury Park, which Guinness World Records officially recognized in 2010 as the new holder of the record for the World’s Largest Gathering of Zombies.

The upcoming Bodine-McKittrick theatrical project, aptly titled, Cryptocurium: The Killian Chronicles Vol. 1 comprises an evening of two, solo one-act plays adapted from The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Gold Bug - a dramatic re-telling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales of horror and intrigue by his friend, Dr. James Killian, renowned 19th century physician, sleuth, adventurer and abnormalist. The show opens in mid-October 2013 and will run for three weeks at 8pm through Halloween. For more information about this event or more of Greg’s upcoming theatrical happenings, please visit www.cryptocurium.com or www.gregoliverbodine.com