Corey Frey

Hey there, I'm Corey Frey.

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Born in Ohio, Corey Frey attended Ohio State University where he stage managed and directed many shows including directing and writing his Undergraduate Honors Thesis on different interpretations of King Lear. After college, he moved to California where he has worked with a number of prestigious theater companies including A Noise Within and the Mark Taper Forum. He has also worked in varying capacities on television shows like The Nanny, EZ Streets, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, GSN Live, and The ShowBiz Show with David Spade. He also worked for a time as the Development Assistant for Kadokawa Pictures USA, and was the Assistant to the Producer for the Warner Brothers' film In 1998, he decided to experience the world and lived overseas teaching English. He spent 4 years in China and a year in Spain. He has also traveled to Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Thailand, France, Ireland, Belgium, and The UK. As a result, he's conversant in (Mandarin) Chinese, and has some ability to communicate in French and Spanish (and on a good day, English) . Recently, he has been working as an event manager and technical director for UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music. He helps oversee two theaters and handles literally hundreds of events a year. To view the website he built for the theaters, please visit schoenbergtheaters.com.  

Stage Manager at GSN

February 2007 - May 2009

Stage Manager for live TV show: GSN Live

Associate Producer at Take the Cake

February 2006 - October 2006

Take the Cake was a live interactive television show on BET. I was a researcher and game computer operator. I primarily searched for and acquired the rights to music for the show, in addition to researching graphics and verifying questions for the show. I also helped develop a custom built software system for graphics and game play. During the show I was the computer operator setting up and running the software during the live broadcast.

Production Associate at The ShowBiz Show

August 2004 - December 2004

supervised and maintained production board front line computer and technical support researched photos, videos and music secured rights for media for broadcast worked with creative staff to verify information and fact check

Stage Manager at UCLA

1994

Stage Manager and Event Manager for the UCLA Herb Albert School of Management.

The Ohio State University

Concentration: Theatre

Athens High School