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Play Now Enterprise is the multimedia company founded by NFL Pro Bowler Greg Ellis. We produce stage plays and films that carry American history to audiences of every age — and we stand behind two missions for mental wellness.

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Two missions for mental wellness.

Off the stage, Greg's work goes into one belief: no one should feel alone in their mental wellness journey. It runs through a non-profit foundation and a separate self-help app.

Non-profit foundation

Getting My Help

A community-driven mental wellness foundation founded by Greg Ellis. It unites people, stories and trusted resources around one purpose — awareness through storytelling and events, real testimonials, and a vetted directory of providers across the U.S.

980M+people worldwide live with a diagnosed mental health disorder. The foundation exists so that number is met with help, not silence.

Seven essential daily needs

  • 01Housing
  • 02Career
  • 03Nutrition
  • 04Education
  • 05Recreation
  • 06Transportation
  • 07Financial literacy

Supporters join with any amount. Star Supporters at $35 and above receive a GMH t-shirt and wristband as a thank-you.

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Getting Your Help

Get the help you keep meaning to get. A personal plan based on where you actually are, daily check-ins that take a minute, a journal that fits your life — and a real human coach who has read every word before the first hello.

  1. Take the questionnaire. Ten minutes across physical, safety, belonging, esteem and growth.
  2. Get your modules. Sleep, finances, family, mindset — each with goals you can star.
  3. Check in daily & journal. Sixty seconds a day; streaks and patterns build on their own.
  4. Meet your coach. The session feels like the third meeting, not the first.
Human coachesVetted, credentialed, and you choose what they see.
Ari, AI companionFor the in-between moments — a helper, not the whole show.
Streaks & badgesPrivacy-first progress you'll actually keep.
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Free trial, no credit card to start. Getting Your Help is not a mental health or medical care provider, and its coaches are not therapists.

Getting My Help is a non-profit foundation. Getting Your Help is a separate self-help app.

The productions

History, told where people gather.

Churches, schools, theatres and community organizations host our plays. Every production is built to entertain first — and to leave the audience with a question worth carrying home.

On stage
Juneteenth
Texas · June 19, 1865

Every June 19th, millions mark the day Texas finally freed its enslaved people — two and a half years after the order to do so.

The play follows Tippy and Henry, whose love, faith and prayer carried them through slavery and those extra years — and asks why the residue of slavery still weighs on society today.

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On stage
Watch Night
Freedom's Eve · Dec 31, 1862

The first day of freedom, seen through the eyes of a young girl called Baby Doll — and her romance with Joseph, the slave master's nephew.

It answers a question many congregations have never had answered: why churches hold Watch Night services at all. The studio's first production.

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On screen
Carter High
Dallas · Feature film

In the 1980s, Carter High School in Dallas was a football powerhouse. This is the story of four student athletes whose choices off the field cost them their futures.

Executive producer Greg Ellis. Starring Charles Dutton, Vivica A. Fox, David Banner, Reginald Hayes and Pooch Hall. Released in theatres nationally; on Walmart, Redbox, Netflix and BET.

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The founder

From the line of scrimmage to the stage.

A native of Wendell, North Carolina, Greg Ellis was named Male High School Athlete of the Year by the Raleigh News & Observer before taking an athletic scholarship to the University of North Carolina — where he became the school's all-time sack leader, a consensus first-team All-American and a Lombardi Award finalist, graduating with a degree in Communications.

A first-round pick in the 1998 NFL Draft, he played twelve seasons — eleven with the Dallas Cowboys and one with the Oakland Raiders — reaching the Pro Bowl in 2007, the same year he was named Comeback Player of the Year.

When football ended, he brought his degree and his love of the arts together and founded Play Now Enterprise: television, feature films and stage plays that entertain and enlighten people of all ages.

12NFL seasons
1998First-round draft pick
2007Pro Bowl & Comeback Player of the Year
3Productions to date
RTP Life

Rules. Tools. Preparation.

Three habits Greg keeps daily — and the ones he teaches when he speaks to young people, teams and congregations.

RRules

Know the boundaries you're playing inside before the whistle blows. Every field, every stage and every household has them.

TTools

Gather what the work actually requires — the skills, the people and the education — rather than hoping talent alone will carry it.

PPreparation

Do the unseen work early. What looks like a breakthrough is almost always something rehearsed long before anyone was watching.

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Get in touch

Bring a production to your city.

Host Juneteenth or Watch Night at your church, school, theatre or community organization. Tell us your date and venue and we'll follow up.

Productions & bookinggellis@playnowenterprise.com
OfficePO Box 96075, Southlake, TX 76092
Getting My Help & Getting Your Helpgregellispn@gmail.com · 469.494.3508

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If you are in crisis, contact local emergency services or a trusted helpline right away. In the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Neither Getting My Help nor Getting Your Help is a mental health or medical care provider.