Amici (aka Greg Amici) began his entertainment career as a singer-songwriter. In the 1990’s he fronted the New York City-based rock band, Big Honey. In 1999, SESAC featured the group at the CMJ Music Festival.
One of the band’s ardent supporters was filmmaker Joe Maggio. When he learned that Amici had a background in theater and film and had trained at the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute, he offered him the role of the hard-edged prison counselor, Gillette, in his independent feature “Virgil Bliss.” The film eventually won several major film awards, including the Grand Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, garnering great reviews for the ensemble cast, along the way.
Amici then gave a notably different performance as the morose psychiatrist, Dr. Dudley, in Maggio’s follow-up feature “Milk and Honey,” which premiered at the 2003 Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, and which was eventually picked up for distribution by Wellspring. In 2006, Amici portrayed Italian businessman Gianni Antonino, opposite Jon Gries (Uncle Rico, Napoleon Dynamite), in the Bright Line feature “Frank,” directed by Doug Cheney (Prom Queen). In 2007, he received accolades as the villainous Don John in a Hollywood theatrical production of “Much Ado About Nothing.”
Amici is also an award-winning screenwriter. His dramedy, “Fool School,” received a Golden Remi for “Best Original Teleplay” at WorldFest-Houston, the Houston Film Festival in 2006. In 2007, his original screenplay, “Rhythm of Life,” was a Top Ten Finalist in the 2007 Final Draft Breakthrough Screenplay Competition. In September of 2007, another work, “Let x = 2” -- in addition to being a quaterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship – came in second in the UCLA Extension Screenplay competition. In the summer of 2008, Amici scripted “The Music Brain,” a “bizarre” comedy/quiz show starring music personality Matt Pinfield -- it has since been optioned by Granada Entertainment.