JEREMY GABLE
English-American creator
of interactive and narrative content
“I am eager to see what Jeremy creates next!”
– sam barlow, creator of her story and immortality
RECENT NEWS
Jeremy will be returning to Hole in the Wall Theater (where he was recently in the U.S. amateur premiere of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman) in a pair of showcases, both as actor and writer.
First, you can see him in a reading of the new play Gone Are the Flowers by Allen Jeffries, on Saturday, August 23rd.
Then the following Saturday, August 30th, Jeremy will be writing a brand new play for the 24-hour play festival Hole in One.
Details on both shows can be found at Hole in the Wall’s Showcase page.
ABOUT JEREMY
Jeremy Gable is an England-born, Idaho-bred, Hartford-based writer of plays and games. He is the creator of the video game Watch Me Jump, which was nominated for the Independent Game Festival’s Excellence in Narrative Award. During his time in Philadelphia, he was a Core Playwright with InterAct Theatre Company, a co-founder and company member at Ninth Planet, and a co-founder of Fox & Dog.
His work has been presented at the National New Play Network’s National Showcase of New Plays and the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and was a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference, Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Terrence McNally New Play Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award, and InterAct Theatre’s 20/20 Commission, as well as a semi-finalist for both the Princess Grace Award, and a nominee for the Smith Prize for Political Theater.
Jeremy is also the creator of 140: A Twitter Performance and The 15th Line, the first full-length fully original plays to premiere on Twitter. His works include full-length plays, one-acts, musicals, and adaptations. In Philadelphia, his plays were seen at Philadelphia Theatre Company, Theatre Horizon, InterAct Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, and Simpatico Theatre. Elsewhere, his work has been produced in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Beirut, Omaha, Spokane, and Twitter.
You can contact Jeremy directly for a perusal script or to inquire about production rights at JeremyGable (at) JeremyGable.com, or by visiting his page on the New Play Exchange.
JEREMY’S PLAYS
THREE-CHARACTER HORROR PLAY
Someone says “ghost”, you think of a spirit, or some kind of specter, something close to human. And they’re vengeful or angry, and that’s why they scare you. ‘Cause they want to push you away. But maybe it’s not like that. Maybe it’s different.
2W, 1M SCI-FI DRAMA
Featured in NNPN’s
National Showcase of New Plays
A middle school teacher discovers that she is a finalist for a mission to establish the first permanent settlement on Mars. As she breaks the news to her wife, she will have to choose between the earthbound life that she loves, or risk everything for the chance to be a part of the very history that she teaches.
4w, 1m wnba drama
Audra Bee Mills, the all-star player for the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, is about to become the highest paid women’s basketball player in the world. But on the night before playoffs, a scandal threatens to overturn everything she has worked for. And Audra has to figure out how to get through the night without losing either her dignity or her career.
2w, 2m video game drama
finalist for the
EUGENE o’neill theater center’s
national playwrights conference
When a wunderkind video game developer decides to create an indie game that strives for something more than entertainment, she finds herself in a nightmare of production delays, self-doubt, and a rabid fan base that is used to getting what they want.
2w, 1m HORROR / thriller
A shed in Idaho. Two women with an unusual relationship. And the threat of a carnivorous monster outside. When a mysterious stranger barges in, he upsets the precarious balance by asking the question of what truly makes a monster.
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ANY OF THESE SCRIPTS,
VISIT JEREMY’S
NEW PLAY EXCHANGE PROFILE,
OR YOU CAN EMAIL
THE AUTHOR AT
JEREMYGABLE (AT) JEREMYGABLE.COM
JEREMY’S CURRENT PUBLISHED PLAYS FOR SALE
JEREMY’S GAMES
COMING SOON
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FINALIST
EXCELLENCE IN NARRATIVE
“one of the most exciting discoveries I’ve made
judging the IGF over the last few years.”
– SAM BARLOW, CREATOR OF HER STORY and IMMORTALITY
“I’d be damned if I was going to quit out of
Watch Me Jump before it ended.
What games could be now.
That’s how hard it struck me.”
– Sin vega, rock paper shotgun
available for pc and mac
on steam and itch.io
articles
Twitter Plays Aren’t Revived, They’re Retweeted
– Jonathan Mandell
American Theatre Magazine
‘Watch Me Jump,’ by Jeremy Gable: Theater as video game
– Cara Blouin
Broad Street Review
Twitter Plays: When Theatre Connects With Reality
– Jeremy Gable
HowlRound Theatre Commons
Philly Playwright Sets Stage for Twitter
– Joshua Sessoms
NBC Philadelphia
All the World’s a Twittery Stage
– Paul Hodgins
Orange County Register
The Summer Jeremy Gable Took Over OC Theater
– Joel Beers
OC Weekly
WATCH ME JUMP
Video game, released in 2018
NOMINEE – EXCELLENCE IN NARRATIVE
Independent Games Festival, 2019
“What games could be now. That’s how hard it struck me … A messy, complicated drama that is nonetheless very grounded and impossible to resolve without hurting anyone in that terrible way real problems sometimes are … Go in blind.”
Sin Vega, Rock Paper Shotgun – December 21, 2018
“Normally I take notes now and then in a game. I don’t get anywhere close to finishing even the great interactive fiction I play/read for this. But I’d be damned if I was going to quit out of Watch Me Jump before it ended … Whew, I could talk about this all night.”
Sin Vega, Rock Paper Shotgun – April 30, 2018
“Part of what makes Watch Me Jump work is that Gable brings all the rules of good playwriting to game design.”
Cara Blouin, Broad Street Review – August 6, 2018
IDAHO SHUFFLE
SIMPATICO THEATRE, 2018
“I was hooked by Jeremy Gable’s delightful, poignant Idaho Shuffle from the very start … Gable employs a device so simple but effective I can’t believe I’ve never seen it before: he performs live through dance and mime, while his recorded voice provides spoken narration. It’s a knockout idea that works on every level. For 70 minutes, Gable has us in the palm of his hand.”
David Fox, Philadelphia Magazine – September 20, 2018
STRANGE TENANTS
sam tower + ensemble, 2017
“Strange Tenants is the type of serious, daring theater that makes us lift our hands and give thanks for the Fringe … There were strong echoes of Hitchcock, Marsha Norman and Harold Pinter at his darkest hour … Keep an eye out for anything by Sam Tower + Ensemble hitting the stage in Philly down the line.”
Max Marin, Philadelphia Weekly – September 27, 2017
“Arresting in its weirdness and impressive in its quivers, jerks and writing … As for the psycho thriller part, the show is satisfyingly strange and in its way, gripping.”
Howard Shapiro, Newsworks – September 12, 2017
“It’s hypnotic and troubling and funny … There’s plenty to admire about the direction in which this woman-centered arm of Philly’s devised-theater scene is headed.”
Wendy Rosenfield, Broad Street Review – September 9, 2017
“Strange Tenants will put a knot in your stomach and a chill up your spine. It is a feminist Hitchcock thriller with singing and dancing. And it is exquisite.”
Rebecca Rendell, Talkin’ Broadway – September 13, 2017
HERO SCHOOL
theatre horizon, 2017
“Hero School is carefully crafted for fun and gentle learning, with a positive moral that’s organic to the story and not contrived or overstated. Hero School includes everyone and doesn’t condescend, and that’s a great lesson.”
Mark Cofta, Broad Street Review – August 7, 2017
901 nowhere street
sam tower + ensemble, 2015
“Jeremy Gable’s lean script captures the noir style well … 901 Nowhere Street clearly introduces not just a stylish new play, but an adventurous new company.”
Mark Cofta, CityPaper – September 9, 2015
“The performance requires that the audience enter into a complicated story they don’t understand for quite awhile, and trust that gradually they’ll get it. And they will … This new theatre company has made one heck of an entrance.”
Kathryn Osenlund, CurtainUp – September 17, 2015
DREAM HOUSE:
A RAINY DAY PLAY
Plays & Players, 2014
“A world premiere production that respects the many moods of childhood … The world premiere play by Jeremy Gable is every bit as buoyant as it is skittish, and excitable as it is terrified, without ever being even the slightest bit scary to young children. Everything that is beautiful and maddening about childhood (in the present day and in retrospect) is on display in Dream House and that makes it a truly magical piece of theater for kids and former kids alike.”
Jeff Bogle, Out With the Kids – November 11, 2014
“A funny, clever show about the power of imagination … Although aimed more for children, there’s plenty for grown-ups to laugh at and think about.”
Charles Green, DC Metro Theater Arts – August 30, 2018
the 15th line
twitter, 2010
“While single-tweet plays never allow readers to suspend disbelief, The 15th Line attempts to create a parallel dramatic universe that one follows just as one might follow other friends on Twitter. In the process, it illuminates the increasingly porous border between everyday life and performance in a mediated age … Raises fundamental questions about the increasingly mediated performance of everyday life.”
John H. Muse, Theater Magazine – Volume 42, No. 2
“Gable’s play builds tension with each update and sucks the reader into a world of ever-increasing urgency … It’s a living and breathing work of art capable of turning any corner at a moments notice … The 15th Line continually creates those rare moments of intense urgency.”
Joshua Sessoms, NBC Philadelphia – January 29, 2010
140: a twitter pERFORMANCE
twitter, 2009
“Somehow, in 140 characters it manages to capture small town malaise, the pains of adolescence and the fear of aging.”
Relevant Magazine – September / October, 2009
“Leave it to Jeremy Gable, one of Orange County’s more fertile theatrical minds, to come up with the world’s first Twitter play (or at least the first one I’ve heard of).”
Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register – June 14, 2009
RE: WOYZECK
HUNGER ARTISTS THEATRE COMPANY, 2007
“Chaotically assembled—but always interesting … It’s a heady, novel and often bewildering leap that examines nothing less profound than the nature of tragedy … A moving, richly poetic story … It’s fresh, rarely predictable … One of Orange County’s most genuinely innovative theatrical minds.”
Joel Beers, OC Weekly – June 15, 2007
american way
blank theatre, 2004
“Wickedly funny stuff … the last moments of bravado and fear resonate.”
Lynne Heffley, Los Angeles Times – October 8, 2004
“Jeremy Gable’s loopy new play is driven by an ingenious metaphoric concept … Gable’s dark comedy/fantasy skewers U.S. political issues with up-to-the-minute relevance while taking a frighteningly resonant look at the volatile state of international relations … Gable’s distinctive voice offers great promise. At its best, his lacerating piece evokes a tragicomic Kubrick-esque brilliance.”
Les Spindle, BackStage West – October 8, 2004
“A superhero parody with a lot more brewing beneath the surface … His message is strong but pleasantly balanced with wry jokes about superhero clichés that testify to the authors expansive knowledge of the genre.”
Luis Reyes, LA Weekly – October 15, 2004
“What the fuck?”
Rebecca Schoenkopf, OC Weekly – September 28, 2006
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