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Greg DePaul is an American playwright and screenwriter, best known for the romantic comedy Bride Wars.

DePaul grew up in Maryland and graduated from NYU. After college, he worked as a private investigator and wrote for The Washington Post. In 1998, DePaul moved to Los Angeles, where he directed his own play, Motherlove. DePaul teamed with writer Hank Nelken to create a comic short film, Jerry Mashugana, a parody of the hit comedy Jerry Maguire, which starred Matt Damon, Geoffrey Rush and Demi Moore.

Saving Silverman, starring Jack Black and Jason Biggs, which was released by Sony Pictures in 2001. The film falls within a cross-genre film type from the late 1990s and early 2000s in which grooms are saved, or nearly saved, from distasteful marriage. It opened at No. 3 at the North American box office making $7.4 million USD in its opening weekend. The film grossed a domestic total of $19,402,030 and $26,086,706 worldwide from a $22 million budget. Killer Bud, was produced independently. It was Robert Stack's final film prior to his death in 2003.