Jeffrey Gold

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Hailing from an artistic family, Jeffrey Gold works in film, where he wears many hats simultaneously. His works have premiered at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Centres in Piccadilly, London and Cardiff, Wales, on PBS television, on radio, and at international film festivals. As a producer, he is the Winner of the Fleur de Lis awards for Best Independent Film and Best Feature Film at the 2003 New Orleans Media Experience, Winner of the Independent Spirit Award at the 2005 MassBay International Film Festival, and the Gold Medal of Excellence at the 2004 Park City Film Music Festival. He was an executive producer of the independent feature film Summer Solstice, based on his story Atlantic Summer, starring Karen Black, Joe Estevez, and Jenell Slack. He was a producer on the award-winning independent film, Abby Singer. He is currently working on a number of screenplays, including Anthem for Water. He was a finalist in the 2006 Sundance Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation screenwriting fellowship. In 2004, Jeffrey Gold was invited to participate in the 19th Annual Sundance Institute Independent Producer’s Conference as well as the 3rd Annual Sundance Institute/Mercer Foundation Masterclass.

After attending Cambridge University, where he executive produced the documentary Children of the Wind, as a lifetime member of the Cambridge Film and Television Society, he was accepted to the prestigious London International Film School in 1997. Other film works include the narrative The Wallet and the documentaries Twilight (Physics In The Twilight), Fade To Reality, Isles In The Midst Of The Great Green Sea, and Cognoscenti: The Admirable Life Of Eli Khamarov.

As a playwright, Jeffrey Gold has been a member the Playwright's Group since 2001, through the auspices of the Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) 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!). He has had a public reading of the play-in-progress In The Pursuit Of Svetla and a public reading at the American Express/Salt Lake Acting Company New Play Sounding Series of the absurdist comedy Horst and Graben in the Context Of The Unfinished Man. Horst and Graben was also read at the 2002 Sawtooth Writers Conference founded by David Kranes (Sundance Theater Lab) and playwright/essayist Jeff Metcalf (Where To?). Horst And Graben was a winner of the 2002 CrossCurrents Cultural Five and Dime Playwriting Competition and was produced at the Just Off Broadway Theater in Kansas City, Missouri in 2003. It was also selected for the 2003 Boca Raton Theatre Guild Short Play Reading Festival and was a finalist in the Ten by Ten in the Triangle, North Carolina. It also won and has been selected for production in the Shorts in Winter Playwriting Festival at the Theatre Orange, North Carolina in February 2004. The comedic tragedietta, Fitch Todd, was read and extremely well received at the Salt Lake Acting Company on December 15, 2002. It went on to win the 2004 New Voices/New Words Playwriting Competition and was read on January 21, 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also received a reading at the City Art Evening of Short Plays on February 16, 2005, won the Seahorse Award at the 2005 Moondance International Film Festival stageplay competition, and then was a winner in the 2006 Silver Spring One Act Festival in Maryland. He has recently finished the plays Dedekind, Horst and Graben at the Chateau Godot, and Candycane Hurricane. Dedekind recently won the Experiments In Ink V Playwriting Competition and was produced in February 2004 at the University of Utah's Department of Theatre. His one act play, Execution at Paradais Island was a finalist in the stageplay competition of the 2004 Moondance International Film festival. His play Percolation Theory was a Finalist in the 2005 Theatre Publicus Prize for Dramatic Literature. He is currently working on other short and long form plays including Waisenhaus, The Unexpected Autobiography Of Spressa Perlesi, The Tyranny Of The Lucky, and Parker's Peace. He won the 2005 Best of State Medal for Playwriting/Screenwriting, the 2006 Best of State Medal for Playwriting, and the 2007 Best of State Medal for Playwriting.

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film, theatre, music, film music, film festivals

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Favorite actors/actresses Stellan Skarsgard

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Favorite music artists Peter Gabriel, Ennio Morricone, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Hummie Mann, Jeff Rona, Klaus Badelt, Sir Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Jan Kaczmarek

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Favorite authors Vonnegut, Khamarov

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