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Jeffrey Gold

JEFFREY GOLD

  (1968 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Educated at Cambridge University, Westminster College, and the University of Utah, Jeffrey Gold was a member of the Playwright's Group for more than three seasons, through the auspices of the Salt Lake Acting Company (premiered Tony Kushner's Angels in America) under dramaturg Mike Dorrell (BBC's Soldier, Soldier, Pictures of a Floating World) and playwright-in-residence Julie Jensen (Two-Headed, Last Lists of My Mad Mother, Wait!). His plays IN THE PURSUIT OF SVETLA, HORST AND GRABEN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE UNFINISHED MAN, FITCH TODD, PERCOLATION THEORY, DEDEKIND, HORST AND GRABEN AT THE CHATEAU GODOT, EXECUTION AT PARADAIS ISLAND, DISPLACEMENT: A FISH IN WATER STORY, and FAIR SHAKE have garnered numerous awards, readings, and productions. Among these, CHATEAU GODOT won the Strawberry One- Act Festival playwriting competition and FAIR SHAKE was selected for the 2013 Smith & Kraus anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays. He has won over 65 awards and recognitions in playwriting and screenwriting, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Entrada Institute. In Hollywood, he has pitched projects to The Weinstein Company and Dreamworks Animation. FUTURE PERFECT is his most recent play, completed in the fall of 2016.

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         Candycane Hurricane         Dedekind         Displacement: A Fish In Water Story         Execution At Paradais Island         Fair Shake         Fitch Todd         Horst And Graben At the Chateau Godot         Horst And Graben In the Context Of the Unfinished Man         In the Pursuit Of Svetla         Percolation theory         What Happens On Sundays?

Candycane Hurricane

Synopsis:
a divorced Father comes to retrieve his daughter whom he had committed to a psychiatric hospital years before.

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1st Produced:
-     2003

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dedekind

Synopsis:
a well-dressed city ruffian converses with an english gentleman about his predicament in a play, lambastes the playwright, and argues over the Dramatic necessity of a mute midget and his attendant pink balloon, while waiting for a quantum-activated train to arrive.

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-     2003

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Genre:
Ten minute play comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Displacement: A Fish In Water Story

Synopsis:
a report from Zion confirms the religious vacuum left in the wake of the 2002 Winter Olympics. This is a monologue addressing Judaism, Mormonism, Norwegians, Jesus, Coleridge, and a surprise solution concocted by some savvy Utah businessman to rescue Utah from the Post-Olympic doldrums

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1st Produced:
-     2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Execution At Paradais Island

Synopsis:
Two blokes are scheduled for execution at Paradais Island, the notorious military prison, and have the occasion to reminisce about the past and face their short future together.

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1st Produced:
-     2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fair Shake

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Semi-Finalist in the 2012 Moondance International Film Festival Stageplay Competition. Fair Shake has been selected for a staged reading for Hit & Run VII, a staged reading of new comedic plays

1st Produced:
Spokane Stage Lef     27 Sep 2013

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1st Published:
Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 Plays For Two Actors. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    

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Genre:
ten min

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Fitch Todd

Synopsis:
In this comedic tragedietta, Fitch Todd, a dried out composer, has lost all motivation to live; his publisher conspires to pull him out of his doldrums for entirely selfish reasons.

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1st Produced:
-     2002

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Horst And Graben At the Chateau Godot

Synopsis:
Horst and Graben are at it again. This time it's 5 years later and in New York. Graben has not lost any of his charm and Horst hasn't built up any resistance to it.

Notes:
Winner in the 2013 Geneva theatre Guild Playwright's Play Reading Contest (NY)

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-     2003

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  or 3m 1f

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Horst And Graben In the Context Of the Unfinished Man

Synopsis:
In this short absurdist comedy, Horst, an everyman, is waiting for a bus in the middle of the desert. Graben, a manipulative social Darwinist, approaches Horst and attempts to convince Horst of the futility of his endeavor.

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1st Produced:
-     2002

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1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishing   

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Genre:
Twelve minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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In the Pursuit Of Svetla

Synopsis:
Two male roommates try to outsmart each other to win the affections of the exotic and very eastern european Svetla Birilenko, while their non-existent third roommate, Chance Bellows, despite the butt of their jokes, may have outsmarted them all, including Svetla.

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1st Produced:
-     2001

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Percolation theory

Synopsis:
In this lupus in fabula story, the overbearing owner of a fortune 500 company visits the home of a former employee with a few surprises.

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1st Produced:
-     2002

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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What Happens On Sundays?

Synopsis:
Commissioned as My Sister, My Bride by the Plan-B theater Company for the first annual Playwriting SLaM. a sister and step-sister vie for the attention of their sexually challenged brother. What happens when you mix Catholicism and Mormonism? You guessed it: indulgences will be available again soon. So, what happens on Sundays?

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1st Produced:
-     2004

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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