Jeremy Gable
{{Short description|British-born American playwright and game designer}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|05|10}}
| birth_place = Lakenheath, Suffolk, England
| occupation = Playwright, game designer, game writer
| nationality = British, American
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| notableworks = D-Pad
American Way
Flying Spaghetti Monster plays
140: A Twitter Performance
Watch Me Jump
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Jeremy Joseph Gable (born May 10, 1982){{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1056878/bio |title=Jeremy Gable - Biography|publisher=The Internet Movie Database |access-date=2009-07-12}} is a British-born American playwright and game designer living in Philadelphia.{{cite web|url=http://www.jeremygable.com/about |title=About Jeremy - Jeremy Gable|publisher=Jeremy Gable |access-date=2017-04-07}}
Early life
Gable was born in Lakenheath, Suffolk, England. He grew up in Post Falls, Idaho,{{cite web|url=http://www.cdapress.com/archive/article-ecf747ca-dcf0-55e0-952c-94a303ef9f77.html|title=Main Street - Living the Dream|work=Coeur d'Alene Press|publisher=The Coeur d'Alene Press|date=2 February 2010|access-date=2017-04-07|last=Thoreson|first=Kerri|archive-date=2017-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408082701/http://www.cdapress.com/archive/article-ecf747ca-dcf0-55e0-952c-94a303ef9f77.html|url-status=dead}} then moved to Barstow, California after graduation.{{cite web|title=The Summer Jeremy Gable Took Over Orange County Theater|url=http://www.ocweekly.com/2006-08-03/culture/the-summer-jeremy-gable-took-over-oc-theater/full|publisher=OC Weekly, LP|access-date=8 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224164257/http://www.ocweekly.com/arts/the-summer-jeremy-gable-took-over-oc-theater-6371141 |archive-date=2016-12-24}}
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".{{cite web | title=BackStage West review of "Giant Green Lizard" | publisher = BackSTage West | url=http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/other_news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002950316&inp=true |date=August 2006 | accessdate=2009-04-13}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
Gable served as Artistic Director of the Hunger Artists Theatre Company from December 2006 to April 2009 where he directed the Orange County premieres of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis{{cite web|url=https://www.backstage.com/review/la-theater/448-psychosis/|title=4.48 Psychosis|work=Backstage|date=28 April 2006|access-date=2017-04-07 |last=Marchese |first=Eric}} and Bryony Lavery's Frozen,{{cite web|url=https://www.backstage.com/review/la-theater/frozen_3/|title=Frozen|work=Backstage|date=17 May 2007|access-date=2017-04-07 |last=Marchese |first=Eric}} as well as writing the Flying Spaghetti Monster plays, which were covered by the official Flying Spaghetti Monster website.{{cite web|url=http://www.venganza.org/2006/11/30/holiday-pageant/ |title=The Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday Pageant|date=30 November 2006 |publisher=Bobby Henderson |access-date=2009-07-12}}{{cite web|url=http://www.venganza.org/2008/11/27/holy-mug-of-grog/ |title=Flying Spaghetti Monster: The Holy Mug Of Grog|date=27 November 2008 |publisher=Bobby Henderson |access-date=2009-07-12}} He also wrote American Way,{{cite book |url=https://www.originalworksonline.com/AMERICAN-WAY-by-Jeremy-Gable_p_180.html |title=AMERICAN WAY by Jeremy Gable |publisher=Original Works Publishing |access-date=2017-04-07}} which made its premiere at Los Angeles' Blank Theatre,{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-08-et-stage8-story.html|title=Buffoon takes it over the top|work=Los Angeles Times|pages=1–2 |date=8 October 2004|access-date=2009-07-05 |last=Heffley |first=Lynne }} - and 140: A Twitter Performance, the first documented full-length fully original Twitter play.{{cite web|url=http://headlines.ocregister.com/entertainment/twitter-30407-characters-play.html|title=Arts & Entertainment: Play unfolding on Twitter over 60 days|date=14 June 2009|work=Orange County Register|publisher=Orange County Register Communications |access-date=2009-07-06 |last=Hodgkins |first=Paul |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813015617/http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/twitter-30407-ocprint-play-.html |archive-date=2011-08-13}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ocweekly.com/2007-06-28/culture/not-quite-by-the-b-chner|title=Orange County Arts - Not Quite By the Buchner|work=OC Weekly |date=28 June 2007 |publisher=Village Voice Media|access-date=2009-07-06 |last=Beers |first=Joel |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608205626/http://www.ocweekly.com/2007-06-28/culture/not-quite-by-the-b-chner/ |archive-date=2011-06-08}}
After moving to Philadelphia, Gable wrote another Twitter play, The 15th Line,{{cite web | url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2015/08/27/how-to-tweet-a-play-twice/ |title=Twitter Plays Aren't Revived, They're Retweeted |work=American Theater Magazine |publisher=Theatre Communications Group |date=27 August 2015 | access-date=2019-01-10 |last=Mandell |first=Jonathan}} as well as the stage plays D-Pad, which was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference,{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/a/theoneill.org/2015-national-playwrights-conference-finalists/d-pad-by-jeremy-gable |title=D-Pad by Jeremy Gable |publisher=The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center |access-date=2015-08-18 |archive-date=2021-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827041900/https://sites.google.com/a/theoneill.org/2015-national-playwrights-conference-finalists/d-pad-by-jeremy-gable |url-status=dead }} and Go Ahead, which was presented at the National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays.{{cite web |url=http://nnpn.org/about/news/announcing-the-16th-annual-national-showcase-of-new-plays-from-december-8-10-2017 |title=Announcing the 16th Annual National Showcase of New Plays from December 8-10, 2017 |publisher=National New Play Network |date=3 October 2017 |access-date=2019-01-10 |archive-date=2020-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219040807/http://nnpn.org/about/news/announcing-the-16th-annual-national-showcase-of-new-plays-from-december-8-10-2017/ |url-status=dead }}
In 2018, Gable adapted his play Watch Me Jump into a video game, which was made available for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.{{cite web|url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/698770/Watch_Me_Jump/ |title=Watch Me Jump on Steam |publisher = Valve |access-date=2018-02-16}}{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/watch-me-jump/id1400500605?mt=8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925215823/https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/watch-me-jump/id1400500605?mt=8 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 25, 2018 |title=Watch Me Jump on the App Store |publisher = Apple Inc. |access-date=2018-09-25}}{{cite web|url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.JeremyGable.WatchMeJump&hl=en_US |title=Watch Me Jump - Apps on Google Play |access-date=2018-09-25}} The game was nominated for an Independent Games Festival Award for Excellence in Narrative.{{cite web |url=http://igf.com/article/2019-independent-games-festival-reveals-years-finalists |title=2019 Independent Games Festival reveals year's finalists |date=2 January 2019 |publisher=UBM |access-date=2019-01-10}}
Gable is a co-founder of the feminist performance platform Ninth Planet.{{cite web |url=https://www.ninthplanet.org/who-we-are |title=who we are |publisher = Ninth Planet |access-date=2018-04-18}}
2020 presidential campaign
In 2015, Gable submitted paperwork declaring an Independent presidential run in 2020.{{cite web|url=http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?_15951367215%200|title=PAGE BY PAGE REPORT DISPLAY FOR 15951367215 (Page 1 of 1)|work=fec.gov|access-date=February 21, 2017}} He terminated his candidacy in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00577742/?cycle=2018&tab=filings|title=HEY, JEREMY GABLE IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT - committee overview|work=fec.gov|date=13 May 2015 |access-date=September 25, 2017}}
Produced and published works
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See also
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External links
- [http://www.jeremygable.com/ Jeremy Gable's Official Website]
{{United States presidential election, 2020}}
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