About me
Jeffrey Gold is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and film composer.
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 (which 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!).
Jeffrey has pitched to Barrie M. Osborne (Lord of the Rings), Jordan Horowitz at Original Headquarters (La La Land, Counterpart), Mark Johnson at Gran Via Productions (Breaking Bad), Rita Wilson (A Man Called Otto), Janet Wu (Moana) at Netflix, Chris Kuser at Dreamworks Animation (MegaMind), Beth Swofford (CAA), Rob Kenneally (CAA), and Christopher Lockhart (William Morris Endeavor).
He has had playwriting and screenwriting masterclasses with Robert McKee (Story), Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men), David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), Robin Swicord (Memoirs of a Geisha, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Meg LeFauve (Pixar's Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur), Lee Aronsohn (The Big Bang Theory), Lindsey Doran (Sense & Sensibility, The Firm), Gerald DiPego (Phenomenon), Ben Ripley (Source Code), Jack Epps, Jr. (Top Gun), Keith Gordon (Homeland, Mother Night), Barry Schkolnick (Law & Order), and Jon Jory (Actors Theatre of Louisville), among others.
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, FAIR SHAKE, FUTURE PERFECT ("The Russian Play"), A COLD NIGHT FOR A DIVA, PURCHASE, CHAMPAGNE FOR CHEKHOV, and screenplays and teleplays THE LEAVING MAN, STEEN'S FOLLY, KLIEG LIGHT, QUANTUM DREAMS, and SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN have garnered numerous awards, readings, and productions. FAIR SHAKE was selected for the 2013 Smith & Kraus anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays. THE CLERK was an Official Selection in the 2020 Short+Sweet Theatre Festival Sydney, where it was produced, and the 2019 ALAP Annual Play Reading Festival (Los Angeles). THE CLERK was also shortlisted in the 2020 Short+Sweet Theatre Festival in Dubai, and the 2019 Short+Sweet Theatre Festivals in Manila and Hollywood.
He was an Artist-in-Residence at the Entrada Institute. With over 100 awards and recognitions in playwriting and screenwriting, he has been a Semi-Finalist in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Impact 2 and Impact 3, a Winner in the SLFS/USP Screenwriting Fellowship (underwritten by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences), a Finalist in the Writers Guild of America West (WGAw) Foundation Pitch Competition, twice Finalist in the Sundance Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Fellowship Competitions, and a Winner, Finalist, and Semi-Finalist in the Napa Valley Film Festival Pitch Competitions.
He lives and works in Los Angeles, where he is on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).