Jeremy Gable

Playwright

Program:
National Showcase of New Plays

Jeremy Gable is an England-born, Idaho-bred, California-trained, Philadelphia-based playwright and video game developer. His plays have been presented at the National New Play Network's National Showcase for New Plays and the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and have been finalists for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award, Philadelphia Theatre Company's Terrence McNally New Play Award, and InterAct Theatre's 20/20 Commission. Jeremy is a former Core Playwright with InterAct, and is the co-founder of both feminist performance collective Ninth Planet and story-based partnership Fox & Dog.

He is also the creator of 140: A TWITTER PERFORMANCE and THE 15TH LINE, the first full-length fully original plays to premiere on Twitter, an event that was covered by American Theater Magazine and Howlround. He also turned his play WATCH ME JUMP into a video game, which has already been played in over 30 countries, and was nominated for the Independent Games Festival Award for Excellence in Narrative.