Jess Winfield
{{Short description|American author, screenwriter, and voice actor}}
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| birth_name = Jesse Morris Borgeson
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|3|8}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
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| years_active = {{ubl|1981–2017 (theatre and television)|2015–present (magazine editor)}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Sandra Thomson|1993}}
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Jesse Morris Winfield (né Borgeson; born March 8, 1961) is an American novelist, self-help author, television writer, voice actor, and magazine editor who is a founding member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company. His books include: What Would Shakespeare Do (2000){{cite book|title=What Would Shakespeare Do?: Personal Advice from the Bard|isbn=1569752257|last1=Winfield|first1=Jess|year=2000|publisher=Ulysses Press }} and My Name Is Will (2008).{{cite book|title=My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare|isbn=978-0446508858|last1=Winfield|first1=Jess|year=2008|publisher=Twelve }} He wrote for and served as an executive producer of a number of animated television series, including Teacher's Pet and Lilo & Stitch: The Series. He also served as the voice actor for Jumba Jookiba in the latter series' franchise in the English versions of the anime Stitch! and the Chinese animated series Stitch & Ai, the latter being his last animated television work to date.
According to his personal LinkedIn profile, he currently works as a freelance editor for American Road magazine.
Early life
Jess Winfield was born Jess Borgeson, and changed his surname to Winfield in 1993 after marrying his wife, Sandra Thomson; his works prior to 1993 refer to him under his original surname.
Theatrical work
In 1981, Winfield joined writer-performer Adam Long and actor Daniel Singer to found the Reduced Shakespeare Company, a collective dedicated to the writing and performing of Shakespearean parodies. In 1987, the Company presented The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), which became an international hit and, eventually, the longest-running comedy production in London's West End, where it was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 1997.{{cite web |url=http://london.broadway.com/story/id/3007164 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-07-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110708095256/http://london.broadway.com/story/id/3007164 |archive-date=2011-07-08 }} He contributed to the editing and adapting of The Complete Works for publication{{cite book|title=The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged)|isbn=1557832714|last1=Long|first1=Adam|last2=Singer|first2=Daniel|last3=Borgeson|first3=Jess|last4=Winfield|first4=Jess|year=1996|publisher=Samuel French }} and television performance.
Television
After departing from The Reduced Shakespeare Company, Winfield served as a writer for the Daytime Emmy Award-winning series Teacher's Pet (starring Nathan Lane and Jerry Stiller). He worked extensively for Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise, writing the animated features Stitch! The Movie and Leroy & Stitch (also serving as a dialogue director), executive producing Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and voicing Jumba Jookiba in the English versions of Stitch! and Stitch & Ai, taking over the role from David Ogden Stiers (who later died in March 2018, the month after Stitch & Ai{{'}}s original English version first aired). He has also written scripts for several other television series such as Mickey Mouse Works, All-New Dennis the Menace, House of Mouse, The Penguins of Madagascar, The Legend of Tarzan, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, 101 Dalmatians: The Series, The Savage Dragon, The Incredible Hulk and Hercules.
Author
Winfield is the author of What Would Shakespeare Do (Ulysses Press, 2000), a self-help book that employs Shakespearean drama as a basis for advice. In 2008, he published the novel My Name Is Will (Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2008). The work uses a historically plausible story of William Shakespeare's young adulthood in conjunction with a comic modern plot to explore themes of religious persecution, authorial intent, and human sexuality. It has been stated that the modern portion of the novel's plot has been based, in part, on Winfield's years studying Shakespeare in Santa Cruz and Berkeley.{{cite web|url=http://www.jesswinfield.com/about|title=Jess Winfield - About|website=jesswinfield.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713103724/http://www.jesswinfield.com/about|archive-date=July 13, 2011}}
Credits
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
!Title !Writer !Producer !Voice actor !Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2" |1993
|Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog |{{yes}} | | |Episodes: "Big Daddy", "King Coconuts", "The Robots' Robot" |
| The All-New Dennis the Menace
|{{yes}} | | |Episode: "Pig Out" |
| 1994–1996
|{{yes}} | | |
| 1995
|{{yes}} | | |Episodes: "The Outside Edge" and "Space Wars" |
| rowspan="3" |1996
|{{yes}} | | |Episode: "Raw Power" |
| The Savage Dragon
|{{yes}} | | |Episode: "Star" |
| Beast Wars: Transformers
|{{yes}} | | |Episodes: "Chain of Command" and "Double Jeopardy" |
| 1997–1998
|{{yes}} | | |Episodes: "Two for the Show", "Watch for Falling Idols", "Smoke Detectors", "Lobster Tale", "The Good-Bye Chick", "The Making Of..." |
| 1998
|Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series |{{yes}} | | |Episodes: "Hercules and the Big Kiss", "...River Styx", "...Hostage Crisis", "...Big Games", "...Falling Stars", "...Twilight of the Gods" |
| 1999
|{{yes}} | | |Episodes 7, 9–12 |
| 2000
|Buzz Lightyear of Star Command |{{yes}} | | |Unknown episodes |
| 2001, 2003
|{{yes}} | | |Episodes: "Tarzan and the New Wave", "Tarzan and the Flying Ace" (also teleplay) |
| 2001–2002
|{{yes}} | | |Reused cartoons from Mickey Mouse Works |
| 2002
|{{yes}} |{{yes|Executive}} | |Wrote two episodes: "Double Dog Dare" and "A Breed Apart" |
| 2003–2006
|{{yes}} |{{yes|Executive}} |{{yes}} |Wrote one episode: "Snafu" |
| 2009–2013, 2014, 2016
| |{{yes|Co-producer}} |{{yes}} |International re-version of anime series |
| 2011
|{{yes}} | | |Episode: "Operation: Break-speare" |
| 2017
| | |{{yes}} |English-language-produced Chinese animated series (English version released 2018) |
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
!Title !Writer !Producer !Voice actor !Notes |
|---|
| 2002
|{{yes}} | | |Film uses "Tarzan and the Flying Ace" |
| 2003
|{{yes}} |{{yes}} |{{yes}} |Voice credit under "With the Voice Talents Of" |
| 2006
|{{yes}} |{{yes}} | |Also dialogue director |
=Stage theater=
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20170619113329/http://www.jesswinfield.com/}} (archived page)
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- {{LinkedIn page}}
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