Jeffrey Gold has been a member the Playwight's Group for more than three seasons, through the auspices of the Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) under dramaturg Mike Dorrell (BBC's Soldier, Soldier, Pictures of a Floating World) and playwright-in-residence Julie Jensen (Two Headed, Last Lists of My Mad Mother, Wait!). He has had a public reading of the play-in-progress IN THE PURSUIT OF SVETLA and a public reading at the American Express/Salt Lake Acting Company New Play Sounding Series of the absurdist comedy HORST AND GRABEN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE UNFINISHED MAN. HORST AND GRABEN was also read at the 2002 Sawtooth Writers Conference founded by David Kranes (Sundance Theater Lab) and Jeff Metcalf (Where To?). HORST AND GRABEN was selected a winner of the 2002 CrossCurrents Cultural Five and Dime Playwriting Competition and was produced at the Just Off Broadway Theater in Kansas City, Missouri during March 14-29, 2003. HORST AND GRABEN was also selected for the 2003 Boca Raton Theatre Guild Short Play Reading Festival and was a finalist in the Ten by Ten in the Triangle, North Carolina. HORST AND GRABEN also won and has been selected for production in the Shorts in Winter Playwriting Festival at the Theatre Orange, North Carolina in February 2004. The comedic tragedietta, FITCH TODD, was read and extremely well received at the Salt Lake Acting Company on December 15, 2002. He has recently finished the plays DEDEKIND, HORST AND GRABEN AT THE CHATEAU GODOT, and CANDYCANE HURRICANE. DEDEKIND recently won the Experiments In Ink V Playwriting Competition and is scheduled for production on February 12-15, 2004 at the University of Utah's Deprtment of Theatre. Jeffrey is currently working on other short and long form plays including PERCOLATION THEORY, WAISENHAUS, THE UNEXPECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SPRESSA PERLESI, THE TYRANNY OF THE LUCKY, and PARKER'S PEACE.

Hailing from an artistic family, Jeffrey also works in film, where he wears many hats simultaneously. His works have premiered at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Centres in Piccadilly, London and Cardiff, Wales, on television and radio, and at regional film festivals in the United States. His first screenplay, A BREAK IN THE FENCE, was written in 1996 and produced in 2001 as SUMMER SOLSTICE, starring Karen Black, Joe Estevez, and Jenell Slack. He is currently working on the screenplays CHERRY GRAVE, UNSEEN, and FILLER PEOPLE.

Working as a film composer, his scores appear in many independent films and documentaries, including REACH, EDGE RUNNING, THE RACKETEERS, and, most recently, in Ken Verdoia's PBS documentary, PROMONTORY. He was the composer and an associate producer of the feature-length independent film ABBY SINGER. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

After attending Cambridge University, where he produced the documentary CHILDREN OF THE WIND as a lifetime member of the Cambridge Film and Television Society, he was accepted to the prestigious London International Film School in 1997. Other short film works include the narrative THE WALLET and the documentaries TWILIGHT (PHYSICS IN THE TWILIGHT), FADE TO REALITY, ISLES IN THE MIDST OF THE GREAT GREEN SEA, and COGNOSCENTI: THE ADMIRABLE LIFE OF ELI KHAMAROV.

Jeffrey is an adjunct faculty member in the department of film and theatre at the Salt Lake Community College where he teaches film and screenwriting. He is also a screenwriting instructor for the University of Utah's Academic Outreach/Continuing Education Lifelong Learning program in Park City, Utah.