Greg Kotis

Greg Kotis (born 1965/1966)[1] is an American playwright, best known for writing the book and co-writing the lyrics for the musical Urinetown.

Kotis studied political science at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the improvisational and sketch comedy group Off-Off Campus.

[2] While moonlighting in fringe theater, Kotis worked as a location scout for the show Law & Order.

Kotis began writing Urinetown: The Musical, deciding it would be his last work: "I told myself, I tried to find a life in the theater and we had some fun...it was time to move on.

"[4] Kotis had gotten the idea for Urinetown when, on an ill-budgeted visit to Paris in 1995, he had to limit his trips to the city's prevalent pay toilets.

Three people stand in a gray lobby area; on the left, a man in a black sweater and pink button down shirt, to his right, a woman in a black tank top that reads "THEATER OF THE APES", and to her right, a man with glasses in a black and white plaid shirt.
Kotis, right, with Ayun Halliday and David Carl at the opening of The Truth About Santa at The Tank