Jessica Goldberg

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, but later divorced.^[13][1] They have one child, Lucinda Rose.

Plays

• Babe (2022)^[14]
• Better (2014)^[1]
• Affair Play
• Katzman and the Mayor^[1]
• The Schaubuhne^[15]
• Body Politic^[15]
• Sex Parasite^[15]
• Good Thing. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8222-1869-2.
• The Hologram Theory. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8222-1821-0.
• Refuge. Dramatist's Play Service. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8222-1777-0.
• Stuck. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8222-1778-7. Premiered at Theatre Off-Park, New York City in 1999^[16]
• The Hunger Education
• What You Need^[3]
• Ward 57^[17]

Screenplays

• Cherry^[18]
• Absent Hearts^[3]
• The Amadou Ly Story for The Kennedy/Marshall Company
• Passing Strange for HBO
• Delerium for Mazur/Fox 2000
• Heart of a Soldier for Universal/Josh Schwartz^{[citation needed]}

Television

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Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes	Ref.
2013	Deception	No	Yes	Co-producer	Wrote episode "Good Luck With Your Death"	[19]
	Camp	No	Yes	Yes	Wrote episodes "CIT Overnight" and "Valentine's Day in July"
2013-2014	Parenthood	No	Yes	Yes	Also supervising producer; Wrote episodes "Aaron Brownstein Must Be Stopped", "The Waiting Room", "Limbo", "Jump Ball", and "Let's Be Mad Together"
2016-2018	The Path	Yes	Yes	Executive	Also creator; Directed episodes "A New American Religion" and "Mercy"; Wrote 11 episodes
2020	Away	No	Yes	Executive	Wrote episode "Spektr" and "Negative Return"

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TV movies

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Year	Title	Writer	Executive Producer
2008	The Prince of Motor City	Yes	No
2018	Suspicion	Yes	Yes

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Feature film

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Year	Title	Director	Writer	Ref.
2012	Refuge	Yes	Yes	[20]
2014	Alex of Venice	No	Yes	[21]
2021	Cherry	No	Yes	[22]

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Short film writer

• Affair Game (2006)