[13] Great moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting and landed roles in the films Light It Up (1999) and Save the Last Dance (2001).
[14][15][16] The character he portrayed, Rodney, is based on Tracy Edwards, who was intended to be Dahmer's next murder victim but managed to escape from him and successfully turn him in to the authorities.
[5] On June 11, 2010, Great graduated summa cum laude from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
[3] In 2014, Great was announced a Cinema Research Institute Fellow at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
[3][24] Great is the creator of the Project Catalyst app, which he developed at the New York University Cinema Research Institute.