After growing up in Winnipeg, Greggory Michael Bryk moved to Kingston, Ontario to study law at Queen's University where he was a Dean's list student and Academic All-Canadian linebacker on the Vanier Cup-winning Golden Gaels football team in 1992. But he took a drama class as an option during his third year at Queen's, and decided to change from football plays to dramatic plays landing his first role as the lead in the university’s production of Hamlet. After graduating with a Bachelor of Honours in Drama and English, Greg went on to perform on some of North America’s most prestigious stages including the Stratford Festival, the Stratford Conservatory, Circle In The Square, New York's Metropolitan Opera, and the Prairie Theatre Exchange.