Jeremy Gable
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Jeremy Joseph Gable (born May 10, 1982)<ref name=IMDB>Template:Cite web</ref> is an American playwright and game designer living in Philadelphia.<ref name=JGB>Template:Cite web</ref>
Early life
Gable was born in Lakenheath, Suffolk, England.<ref name=IMDB/> He grew up in Post Falls, Idaho,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> then moved to Barstow, California after graduation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
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>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref> and Bryony Lavery's Frozen,<ref name=frozen>Template:Cite web</ref> as well as writing the Flying Spaghetti Monster plays, which were covered by the official Flying Spaghetti Monster website.<ref name=fsm>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=fsm2>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref> - and 140: A Twitter Performance, the first documented full-length fully original Twitter play.<ref name=ocreg01>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref>
After moving to Philadelphia, Gable wrote another Twitter play, The 15th Line,<ref>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref> and Go Ahead, which was presented at the National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays.<ref name=GoAhead>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=WMJ02>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=WMJ03>Template:Cite web</ref> The game was nominated for an Independent Games Festival Award for Excellence in Narrative.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Gable is a co-founder of the feminist performance platform Ninth Planet.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2020 presidential campaign
In 2015, Gable submitted paperwork declaring an Independent presidential run in 2020.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He terminated his candidacy in 2017.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Produced and published works
Stage
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1999 | The Bench | Presented at the Spokane Civic Theatre's Playwrights Forum Festival<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2002 | Algor Mortis | Presented at the Blank Theatre Company's Young Playwrights Festival<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 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 | Produced by the Maverick Theater.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 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 | Premiered on Twitter.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2011 | Revolution and a Sandwich | Produced by the Shakedown Project.<ref name=Revwich>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2012 | Star Wars: A New Musical Hope | Book of a musical. Produced by Bootless Stageworks.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2013 | Bad Monster | Presented at Theatre Exile's Studio X-hibition Series.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2014 | Dream House: A Rainy Day Play | Produced by Plays and Players Theatre.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Published by YouthPLAYS.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2015 | 901 Nowhere Street | Produced by Sam Tower + Ensemble.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2016 | Nowhere Fast | Produced by Sam Tower + Ensemble and BRAT Productions.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2017 | Watch Me Jump | Presented at Theatre Exile's Studio X-hibition Series.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2017 | Particular Risk | Produced by Bryn Mawr College.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2017 | Go Ahead | Presented at the Great Plains Theatre Conference<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays.<ref name=GoAhead/> |
| 2017 | Hero School | Produced by Theatre Horizon.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2017 | Strange Tenants | Produced by Sam Tower + Ensemble.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2018 | The Idaho Shuffle | Produced by Simpatico Theatre.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2018 | Homeworld | Story Editor. Produced by Ninth Planet.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 2020 | D-Pad | Produced by Theatre Exile<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and presented at the Great Plains Theatre Conference.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref> |
Video games
| 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 also
- List of playwrights
- List of people from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- List of people from Fullerton, California
- List of people from Idaho
References
External links
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- People from Lakenheath
- People from Fullerton, California
- Writers from Philadelphia
- People from Post Falls, Idaho
- People from Barstow, California
- American video game designers
- Video game writers
- Candidates in the 2020 United States presidential election