Jeff Goode is an American television
writer and
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
, perhaps best known as the creator of Disney Channel's ''
American Dragon: Jake Long''
and the author of the stage play ''The Eight: Reindeer Monologues''.
Goode has written a number of pilots for television, including
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
's ''
Undressed''.
In 2006, he was named
Broadway Play Publishing Inc.'s Playwright of the Year. B P P I has published his plays ''Dracula Rides Again'', ''Larry and the Werewolf'', ''Love Loves A Pornographer'' and ''Marley's Ghost''.
In 2007, he received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the
Back Stage Garland Award
The Back Stage Garland Awards — also referred to simply as the Garland Awards, and known as the Back Stage West Garland Awards from 1998 to 2008 — were bestowed by the entertainment-industry newspaper ''Backstage (magazine), Backstage'', honor ...
for his play ''Love Loves a Pornographer''.
He is a founding member of the original
No Shame Theatre
No Shame Theatre is a forum for original stage performance work. It is often presented as a weekly talent show.
Format
A board of approximately five members generally manages No Shame Theatre. These members are responsible for the operation of No ...
in Iowa City.
Selected works
Plays
*''The Elf'' (1987)
*''Dead Panther Cabaret'' (1989)
*''Waiting On Godot'' (1990)
*''Escape From Eldorado'' (1990)
*''Dead Poets'' (1990)
*''Rumpelstiltskin'' (1990)
*''Who Killed Cock Robin'' (1991)
*''Narcissus & Echo'' (1992)
*''UBU: a play for children'' (1994)
*''Ring Cycle! the Musical'' (1994)
*''THE EIGHT: Reindeer Monologues'' (1994)
*''Ubu Two: Ubu in America'' (1995)
*''Elephans'' (1995)
*''Larry and the Werewolf'' (1995)
*''Dracula Rides Again'' (1995)
*''Portrait of the Virgin Mary Feeding the Dinosaurs'' (1996)
*''Lesbian's Last Pizza'' (1996)
*''Princess Gray and the Black & White Knights'' (1996)
*''In Real Life'' (1996)
*''Ubu Three: Where's Ubu?'' (1997)
*''The Death of Dick Piston'' (1998)
*''Poona the Fuckdog and other plays for children'' (1999)
*''Prague-nosis!'' (2001)
*''The UnXmas Story'' (2001)
*''Anger Box'' (2003)
*''Don Quixote and the Black Knight'' (2003)
*''
Marley's Ghost'' (2003)
*''Romeo & Julius
aesar' (2004)
*''Jolly Jack Junior: the Buccaneer's Bairn'' (2005)
*''Your Swash Is Unbuckled'' (2007)
*''Ham/thello'' (2007)
*''Murder By Midnight'' (2007)
*''Love Loves a Pornographer'' (2007)
*''Seven Santas'' (2007)
*''Lear's Labour's Lost'' (2008)
*''Cosmetic Perjury'' (2008)
*''Savin' Up for Saturday Night'' (2009)
*''Yes, Svetlana, There is a Grandfather Frost'' (2009)
*''Prosthesis: Murder!'' (2010)
*''The Emancipation of Alabaster McGill'' (2011)
*''Æsopera'' (2012)
Television
*''
Undressed'' (1999)
*''Fast Food Films'' (1999)
*''
American Dragon: Jake Long'' (2005)
*''
Duck Dodgers'' (2005)
*''
Lalaloopsy (TV series)'' (2013)
*''
Tumble Leaf'' (2014)
*''
We're Lalaloopsy'' (2017)
*''
Molly of Denali'' (2020)
*''
Arthur'' (2021) Episode: The Pea and the Princess
*''
Thomas and Friends: All Engines Go!'' (2021)
References
External links
Jeff Goode Official Site
American dramatists and playwrights
American musical theatre librettists
Showrunners
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Disney Television Animation people
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