Greer Firestone is the founder and driving force behind Heart in the Game (HIIG), a 501c3 non-profit that was founded in 2014 after student-athlete Grace Firestone suffered a Sudden Cardiac Arrest 2 days after her high school graduation. HITG’s mission is to make Delaware the “Heart Healthiest” state. Their program advocates for screening every middle and high school student in Delaware for underlying cardiac issues that put them at risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest....for FREE. Also, they work to provide regular, free community education opportunities to learn bystander CPR, as well as provide grants to place public access AED’s in strategic locations where they don’t exist today. Over the past 5 years Heart In The Game has staged 22 events in Delaware, offering FREE EKG screening and training in CPR/AED.
Greer Firestone is a Delaware native who graduated from Brandywine High and University of Delaware. In his senior year at UD he founded and became the first General Manager of the campus Radio Station WHEN. He is in their Hall of Fame. Greer is a theater critic and proponent for performing arts for over 30 years. He founded, produced and directed DE's BEST OF BROADWAY from 1985 to 2000, a community theater group that donated over $100,000 to local charities. Greer is a playwright, having written several Broadway style musicals that are licensed to community theaters nationally. His most popular show, JUDY GARLAND “World’s Greatest Entertainer”, was performed at the baby grand in The Grand Opera House in Wilmington in March. There are possibilities for a national tour. Coincidentally, Greer performed at Longwood with the Brandywiners in 1978 and 1991 in the lead role in KISMET as Haaj The Poet.