Jeffrey GoldLos Angeles, CACambridge educated Mentor
Educated at Westminster College, Cambridge University, and the University of Utah, Jeffrey Gold is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. With over 100 awards and recognitions in screenwriting and playwriting, he has been a Winner in the SLFS/USP Screenwriting Fellowship (underwritten by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences), Finalist in the Writers Guild of America West (WGAw) Foundation Pitch Competition, twice Finalist in the Sundance Institute/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Fellowship Competitions, Semi-Finalist in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Impact 2 and Impact 3, and a Winner, Finalist, and Semi-Finalist in the Napa Valley Film Festival Pitch Competitions. He was an Artist-in-Residence at the Entrada Institute.
He has had playwriting and screenwriting masterclasses with Robert McKee (Story), Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men), David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), Robin Swicord (Memoirs of a Geisha, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Meg LeFauve (Pixar's Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur), Lee Aronsohn (The Big Bang Theory), Lindsey Doran (Sense & Sensibility, The Firm), Gerald DiPego (Phenomenon), Ben Ripley (Source Code), Jack Epps, Jr. (Top Gun), Keith Gordon (Homeland, Mother Night), Barry Schkolnick (Law & Order), and Jon Jory (Actors Theatre of Louisville), among others.
He lives and works in Los Angeles, where he teaches at USC and Caltech.