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Jessica Goldberg | |
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Born | 1975 (age 49–50) Provincetown, Massachusetts |
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Children | 1 |
Relatives | Matty Goldberg (brother) |
Jessica Goldberg (born 1975) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and television writer. In 1999, she won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, Refuge . Goldberg is the creator of the Hulu series The Path and served as the showrunner for the Netflix series Away .
Goldberg is from Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was raised Jewish [1] and grew up in Woodstock, New York. [2] Goldberg is a graduate of the dramatic writing program at New York University, and of the Juilliard School. [3]
She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South and a recipient of the Le Compte de Nouy stipend, the first annual Helen Merrill Award, and a 2000 Berrilla Kerr Foundation Award. [4] She was also a resident at New River Dramatists, a member of the PEN American Center.[ citation needed ]
Her play What You Need was commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company. [3] Refuge premiered at Playwrights' Horizons and won the 1999 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. [5]
Goldberg's television and screen work includes "The Prince of Motor City" (2008) for ABC, starring Piper Perabo, Aidan Quinn, Andie MacDowell, Rutger Hauer, and Morris Chestnut.[ citation needed ] Goldberg created the television series The Path , which aired three seasons on Hulu before being cancelled in 2022. [6] [7] [8] Goldberg served as the showrunner for the 2020 Netflix series Away . [9] [10] [11] She received a Gracie Award in 2021 in the category, "Showrunner Fiction – Drama," for her work on Away. [12]
Goldberg married actor and playwright Hamish Linklater in 2002. They have one child, Lucinda Rose, but later divorced. [13] [1]
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
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2006 | Affair Game | No | Yes | No | Short film, story and screenplay | |
2008 | The Prince of Motor City | No | Yes | No | TV movie, creator and story | |
2012 | Refuge | Yes | Yes | No | Based on her play of the same name | [19] |
2013 | Deception | No | Yes | Yes | As co-producer: 11 episodes As writer: "Good Luck With Your Death" | [20] |
2013 | Camp | No | Yes | Yes | As producer: 10 episodes As writer: "CIT Overnight" and "Valentine's Day in July" | |
2013-2014 | Parenthood | No | Yes | Yes | As producer: 17 episodes (2013-14) As supervising producer: 13 episodes (2014-15) As writer: "Aaron Brownstein Must Be Stopped," "The Waiting Room," "Limbo," "Jump Ball," and "Let's Be Mad Together" | [20] |
2016-2018 | The Path | Yes | Yes | Yes | Creator, executive producer As director: "A New American Religion" and "Mercy" As writer: 11 episodes | |
2018 | Suspicion | No | Yes | Yes | TV movie, creator and executive producer | |
2020 | Away | No | Yes | Yes | Executive producer As writer: "Spektr" and "Negative Return" Won Gracie Award 2021 for "Showrunner Fiction – Drama" |
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
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2014 | Alex of Venice | No | Yes | No | Co-written with Katie Nehra and Justin Shilton | [21] |
2021 | Cherry | No | Yes | No | Screenplay co-written with Angela Russo-Otstot | [22] |