Jeremy Gable
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Jeremy Joseph Gable (born May 10, 1982)<ref name=IMDB>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is a British-born American playwright and game designer living in Philadelphia.<ref name=JGB>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Early lifeEdit
Gable was born in Lakenheath, Suffolk, England.<ref name=IMDB/> He grew up in Post Falls, Idaho,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> then moved to Barstow, California after graduation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
In July 2006, Gable wrote and produced Giant Green Lizard! The Musical, a musical parody of the Japanese monster movies from the 1950s, for the Maverick Theater Company in Fullerton, California. The show received a positive notice in the entertainment trade BackStage West, particularly noting its "inventive score" and "off-kilter sensibility".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Template:Dead link</ref>
Gable served as Artistic Director of the Hunger Artists Theatre Company from December 2006 to April 2009<ref name=IMDB/> where he directed the Orange County premieres of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis<ref name=psychosis>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Bryony Lavery's Frozen,<ref name=frozen>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as writing the Flying Spaghetti Monster plays, which were covered by the official Flying Spaghetti Monster website.<ref name=fsm>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=fsm2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also wrote American Way,<ref name=OWO>Template:Cite book</ref> which made its premiere at Los Angeles' Blank Theatre,<ref name=latimes01>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> - and 140: A Twitter Performance, the first documented full-length fully original Twitter play.<ref name=ocreg01>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was named "one of Orange County's most genuinely innovative theatrical minds" by OC Weekly and called "one of O.C.'s more fertile theatrical minds" by the Orange County Register.<ref name=ocreg01/><ref name=woyzeck>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
After moving to Philadelphia, Gable wrote another Twitter play, The 15th Line,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as the stage plays D-Pad, which was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Go Ahead, which was presented at the National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays.<ref name=GoAhead>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2018, Gable adapted his play Watch Me Jump into a video game, which was made available for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.<ref name=WMJ01>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=WMJ02>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=WMJ03>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The game was nominated for an Independent Games Festival Award for Excellence in Narrative.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Gable is a co-founder of the feminist performance platform Ninth Planet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020 presidential campaignEdit
In 2015, Gable submitted paperwork declaring an Independent presidential run in 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He terminated his candidacy in 2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Produced and published worksEdit
StageEdit
Year | Title | Notes | ||
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1999 | The Bench | Presented at the Spokane Civic Theatre's Playwrights Forum Festival<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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2002 | Algor Mortis | citation | CitationClass=web
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2004 | American Way | Produced by the Blank Theatre.<ref name=latimes01/> Published by Original Works Publishing<ref name=OWO/> | ||
2006 | Giant Green Lizard! The Musical | citation | CitationClass=web
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2006 | The Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday Pageant | Produced by the Hunger Artists Theatre Company.<ref name=fsm/> | ||
2007 | Re: Woyzeck | Produced by the Hunger Artists Theatre Company.<ref name=woyzeck/> | ||
2008 | Flying Spaghetti Monster: The Holy Mug of Grog | Produced by the Hunger Artists Theatre Company.<ref name=fsm2/> | ||
2009 | 140: A Twitter Performance | Premiered on Twitter.<ref name=ocreg01/> | ||
2010 | The 15th Line | citation | CitationClass=web
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2011 | Revolution and a Sandwich | citation | CitationClass=web
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2012 | Star Wars: A New Musical Hope | citation | CitationClass=web
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2013 | Bad Monster | citation | CitationClass=web
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2014 | Dream House: A Rainy Day Play | Produced by Plays and Players Theatre.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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2015 | 901 Nowhere Street | citation | CitationClass=web
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2016 | Nowhere Fast | citation | CitationClass=web
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2017 | Watch Me Jump | citation | CitationClass=web
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2017 | Particular Risk | Produced by Bryn Mawr College.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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2017 | Go Ahead | citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> and the National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays.<ref name=GoAhead/> | |
2017 | Hero School | citation | CitationClass=web
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2017 | Strange Tenants | citation | CitationClass=web
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2018 | The Idaho Shuffle | citation | CitationClass=web
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2018 | Homeworld | citation | CitationClass=web
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2020 | D-Pad | citation | CitationClass=web
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Video gamesEdit
Year | Title | Notes |
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2018 | Watch Me Jump | Released for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.<ref name=WMJ01/><ref name=WMJ02/><ref name=WMJ03/> |
See alsoEdit
- List of playwrights
- List of people from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- List of people from Fullerton, California
- List of people from Idaho
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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