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  lives
and writes in La Honda, California. |
| Jeff's most recent play, Gravitation and
Ascent, was workshopped at Theatre Rhinoceros after receiving a reading
at Damesrocket Theatre in Tucson. In 2002, Gravitation and Ascent
was a finalist in The Phoenix Theatre’s Festival of Emerging American
Theatre. |
| His A Thin Place in the Universe was
staged in The Studio at Theatre Rhinoceros after readings at Venue 9 and
The 450 Geary Studio. |
| An ealier play, Ourselves, Our Foes,
was winner of the American Theatre Ventures National Playwrights Contest
and the Sonoma County Playwrights Festival and was produced by the Actors
Theatre of Santa Rosa. |
| He collaborated on The Belle of Bourbon Street,
an adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s La Dame de chez Maxim,
for TheatreWorks. |
| Jeff’s first work, Joshua, was
produced in Columbus, Ohio, both by The Ohio State University (where he
was a student at the time) and by Cupola. |
| Jeff is currently at work on a new play, tentatively
titled Stuff I Thought of in My Head, which was given a sneak preview
in late 2005 at San Francisco's Off-Market Theatre by C.A.F.E. in The Reading
Room. |
| Jeff has been a member of the Dramatists Guild
since 1993. He’s a founding member of First Seen (www.firstseen.org),
a San Francisco Bay Area theatre company and playwrights’ collective
established in 1998 and committed to developing and producing new work.
He has been a member of Theatre Bay Area since 1992, and from 1993 to 2001
was a member of ThroughLine, a Bay Area playwrights’ group. He was
also a participant in TheatreWorks’ New Plays Initiative. He has a
Ph.D. in Theatre from The Ohio State University and was on the faculty of
Ithaca College before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| Jeff’s work has been supported by grants
from the California Arts Council, the Zellerbach Foundation, and the CA$H
grants program of Theatre Bay Area (supported by grants from the Hewlett
and Packard Foundations and San Francisco’s Grants for the Arts). |
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