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Jonathan Goldberg

JONATHAN GOLDBERG

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jonathan A. Goldberg is an internationally produced playwright based in the New York Area. His work has been seen at: The Public Theater, Ars Nova, Theatricum Botanicum, Mixed Blood, Theater on the Square, and many others. His play The Jew and the Demon won the Rita and Burton Prize for playwriting from the Tisch School of Drama. How to Shoot a Bull Moose which chronicles a day in the later life of Theodore Roosevelt won the 2010 Israel Baran Award. He has written over 50 short plays for the sketch theater show Ephemerama with co-creator Dan Moyer. His play Sousepaw was awarded best of SF Fringe in 2011 and has toured to sold out audiences across the country. He holds an MFA in dramatic writing from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and has visited about two-thirds of the presidential homes across the country. He also won the 2012 L Magazine Pocket Fiction Contest.

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         Age of Discovery         Bitsy & Mimsy Best Friends         Deus Machina Ex or Eleanor Roosevelt vs. The God Machine         Feed a Fever, Starve and Artist         Glow         How to Shoot a Bull Moose         Jew And the Demon, The         Land Whale Murders, The         Luck Of the Ibis         My Father is a Tetris Game         Portrait of Greatness: Warren G. Harding         Real Dead Ghosts         Sharks of Montana         Sousepaw: 'A Baseball Story'         Stalin The Inevitable         Suriname         Thomas Jefferson Plays it Safe         Tragedae of the Old Woman Who Lived in Birnam Wood During the Reign of the False King MacBeth, The         Uncle Shelby's Travelling Treasure Trunk         Weirdness of New Jersey, The         Wendigo, The

Age of Discovery

Synopsis:
A world and time spanning adventure about just about everything.

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Play/Drama

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Bitsy & Mimsy Best Friends

Synopsis:
A strange lunch break between best friends.

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Deus Machina Ex or Eleanor Roosevelt vs. The God Machine

Synopsis:
The first lady must stop the evil Order of the Trygon from destroying the world.

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Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Feed a Fever, Starve and Artist

Synopsis:
The follow up to The Land Whale Murders finds Eugene back in action against an artists plot to create a painting that will throw the world into war.

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Glow

Synopsis:
The sad tale of the Radium Girls, who died because they painted the glowing numbers onto watch faces.

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How to Shoot a Bull Moose

Synopsis:
Aging President Theodore Roosevelt wants to spend the day working on his memoirs but a reporter with a grudge won't leave him alone.

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Play/Drama

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Jew And the Demon, The

Synopsis:
a reluctant demon helps Zelig reclaim his past after the Holocaust

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Tisch School Of Arts, New York    -

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Land Whale Murders, The

Synopsis:
Its 1896 and someone sinister is killing off members of the Four elementals, New York City's quintessential brain trust. Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt suspects dread eco-terrorist, the Fish Monger; the remaining elementals suspect Big Whale Oil's henchmen, the notorious Blowhole Gang and their cutthroat leader, Pirate Penny. the bizarre and impossible abounds in the mysterious case of, the Land Whale Murders.
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adapted And directed by Shelby Company

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Theater Three, NY    40516

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Luck Of the Ibis

Synopsis:
a fractured adventure filled with girl detectives, a chupacabra, a museum hidden inside a zeppelin, and . . .shrimp. This soaring fable of fanciful fact and mournful fiction examines the stories we must tell to keep safe in a cruel world.
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My Father is a Tetris Game

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A young girl goes missing trying to find a message from her dead father via the video game Tetris.

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Play/Drama

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Portrait of Greatness: Warren G. Harding

Synopsis:
A day in the life of President Warren G. Harding

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Real Dead Ghosts

Synopsis:
Graham and Amber are a young married couple who promise to spend their anniversary in a secluded cabin away from work, friends and other distractions. But disappointments, secrets and regrets bubble to the surface when they're haunted by past choices and future responsibilities. A modern day ghost story. Unfinished business kind of shit.

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1st Produced:
Robert Gill, Toronto Fringe Festival    02 Jul 2014

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Shelby Company

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Genre:
60 min comedy drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sharks of Montana

Synopsis:
The story of feuding palaeontologists in the Gilded Age.

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Sousepaw: 'A Baseball Story'

Synopsis:
Famed pitcher Rube Waddell has one last shot to make a big comeback, so he hires the Reptile Girl from the circus to keep him company -- and sober. This heartbreaking play explores their long night of broken promises, secrets, and past regrets.

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VENUE #12: 64E4 UNDERGROUND, NY    18 Aug 2015

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Shelby Company

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Genre:
Drama 1h 10m

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Stalin The Inevitable

Synopsis:
A corporate excutive realizes he is transforming into Josef Stalin.

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Suriname

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A strange hotel in Suriname is home to an eel scientist, an invalid upstatirs, and guests up to no good. Ridiculous

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Thomas Jefferson Plays it Safe

Synopsis:
Former presidents class in a farcical comedy set in Monticello.

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Tragedae of the Old Woman Who Lived in Birnam Wood During the Reign of the False King MacBeth, The

Synopsis:
A sad tale nestled in between the events of Shakespeare's MacBeth.

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Uncle Shelby's Travelling Treasure Trunk

Synopsis:
the world's hottest chilli pepper, a depressed magician and a closet monster

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Written by Jonathan Goldberg And Dan Moyer

1st Produced:
Theatre Garage, Minneapolis    05 Aug 2010

Organisations:
Minnesota Fringe Festival

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, one act

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Weirdness of New Jersey, The

Synopsis:
A housewife must journey across the Garden State to save it from a dark curse.

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wendigo, The

Synopsis:
Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and others work to defeat a mythical beast in Ohio

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Genre:
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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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