 A Wisconsin native and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Jeff has appeared in various stage productions in Iowa and Los Angeles, including The Glass Menagerie as Tom (Best Actor OVATION), 17 Days as Jeff, Starmites as Space Punk, A Chorus Line as Don, Fool for Love as Martin, Jack and Jill as Jack, HAIR and multiple productions of Blood Brothers as Mickey and the Narrator. He's also appeared in the films Silent Killer with Joe Lando and Michael Gross, The Last Breath with Bruce Boxleitner, Terminal Error with Michael Nouri, Tumbleweeds with Janet McTeer and music videos for Robbie Williams and Cypress Hill.
As a playwright, Jeff's plays have taken him to Ireland, Manhattan, Seattle, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Dayton, Bel Air, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Tujunga, CA. His first play, The Golgotha Crux (full-length), had its premiere stage reading at the Urban Theater Project of Iowa (UTPI) in May 2004 and went on to become a finalist in the Dayton Playhouse FUTUREFEST, a semi-finalist in the Wagner College 2004 Stanley Drama Award competition in New York, and received an Honorable Mention in the 73rd Annual Writers Digest Writing Competition 2004. Other plays include:
Chromosome 21 (full-length)
Stan's Addiction (full-length, Heuer Publishing Co., 2006), The Stray Dawg Theatre Company, Belfast, Ireland, April 2006 Manhattan Theatre Source, Bleeker Street Irregulars Theatre Company, Manhattan, New York City, May 2007
Pass the Salt, Please. (10-min. play, Heuer Publishing Co., 2009), BEST OF SHOW at UNcover: a two night art exhibition with an erotic vibe, juried show, Cedar Rapids, IA, March 2007, Los Angeles premiere at Drake's Erotica Emporium, West Hollywood, August 2007, semi-finalist, Short Sweet Sydney, The Biggest Little Play Festival in the World, Australia, 2007 semi-finalist Asphalt Jungle Shorts IV, Ontario, Canada, 2008, The Little Red Studios Erotic Shorts Festival, Seattle, WA, 2009 performance at artists-only gala for Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, 2009 Florida Southeast Premiere City Theatre's Summer Shorts Festival Undershorts 2009, Miami Fort Lauderdale, June 2009
4 Minutes (give or take) to Climax (short)
Billy Balfoor Wants an Apology (10-minute), semi-finalist, Short Sweet Brisbane, The Biggest Little Play Festival in the World, Australia, August 2009
The Bed (10-min.), semi-finalist, Short Sweet Sydney, The Biggest Little Play Festival in the World, Australia, December 2008
Jessica, Paris, Brittany, and Lindsay Meet Brett Favre on Their Train Wreck (10-min.)
Amor No Fluxo (Love in Flux), an erotic trilogy, including Pass the Salt, Please., 4 Minutes (give or take) to Climax and Reveille! (one-act)
Jesus Pushed a Grocery Cart (10-min.)
Hello Engine. I'm Jake Holman, a stage adaptation of the film
The Sand Pebbles,
and a collection of ten-minute plays for children's theater.
Works-in-progress include: The Metamorphoses of an Ashcan (or The Dominican, a Satyr and Nymph, Two Vaudevillians and a Clown Discuss Matters of Substance Over Goat Cheese and Tea), How to Kill a Boy full-length dark dramedy, The Exoneration of Daniel E. Sicklers (historical, full-length drama based on a true story), a stage adaptation of the novel, A Sad Affair, and two plays on Frank Lloyd Wright. Jeff is a Beach Boys/Brett Favre groupie, is learning to play the Irish tin whistle, has no idea who he'll follow this NFL season (as he's still boycotting the Green Bay Packers), and would rather be bow hunting or fishing on a lake than doing whatever hes doing at this very moment. Jeff is the editor of The Neighborhood Buzz, publishes the blog, PASSION TRUTH, on Blogger and has self-published a book featuring his photography, called Passion Truth, a photographic essay of life's truths, available at www.blurb.com. |