Jeff Goode is an American television

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, best known as the creator of

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's '' American Dragon: Jake Long'' and the author of the stage play ''The Eight: Reindeer Monologues''. Goode has written several pilots for television, including

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's ''

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''. 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 for his play ''Love Loves a Pornographer''. He is a founding member of the original

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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

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' (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

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'' (1999) *''Fast Food Films'' (1999) *'' American Dragon: Jake Long'' (2005) *''

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'' (2005) *''

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'' (2013) *''

Tumble Leaf ''Tumble Leaf'' is an American animated series that premiered in 2014 on Amazon Prime Video. It is stop motion for preschool-aged children and it is based on the short film ''Miro''. Created by animator Drew Hodges (''Saturday Night Live'', ''Co ...

'' (2014) *''

We're Lalaloopsy ''We're Lalaloopsy'' is an animated children's television series co-produced by MGA Entertainment and Splash Entertainment for Netflix. The series is based on the ''Lalaloopsy'' dolls from MGA Entertainment, and is a revival of the children’s ...

'' (2017) *''

Molly of Denali ''Molly of Denali'' (stylized in all caps) is an animated children's television series produced by WGBH-TV, WGBH Kids and animated by Atomic Cartoons, created by Dorothea Gillim and Kathy Waugh for PBS Kids and CBC Kids.

'' (2020) *''

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'' (2021) Episode: The Pea and the Princess *'' Thomas and Friends: All Engines Go!'' (2021)

References

External links

Jeff Goode Official Site
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