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Joe Gilford has worked in film, TV and theatre, as a producer, writer and director.
His newest stage play, “Finks,” a fictionalized chronicle of his parents’ real-life struggle as blacklisted actors in the 1950s, is being developed by producer Robyn Goodman. In July 2008, It is being presented as a mainstage production by New York Stage and Film ( at Vassar College).
He is the screenwriter of the feature film adaptation of the French science fiction novel “Operation Pertica” by Ivan Leveque.
His feature screenplay, “God’s Thumbprint,” is currently in development with Creative Differences Productions. Saul Rubinek is the director (“Jerry & Tom”; “Bleacher Bums”).
He is the creator and writer of “Game,” a new digital animation comedy series. The pilot is in pre-production.
For PBS’s Great Performances & Time Warner Home Video he wrote the original script for “The Great American Songbook,” a history of American popular song hosted by Michael Feinstein.
For Pacific Street Films, he wrote the upcoming documentary “Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans and the Movies” featuring John Turturro, Paul Sorvino, and Marisa Tomei.
He is the writer of the A&E Biography, “Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Golden Boy.” He also served as a writer on the award-winning Lifetime series, “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.”
He is the author of the plays “Knockdown,” “Not Tunisia,” “In Aisle 4,” “The End of Our Rope,” “The Love Museum,” and “No Fault”.
His plays have been produced, performed or presented in readings at Naked Angels Theater Co., Roundabout Theater Company, Circle Rep Lab, The Westbank Downstairs Theater, Todd Mountain Theater Project. He is a longtime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and its Playwrights Unit. He also worked as a stage director for many years before turning to writing.
He has had a long career producing television documentaries, winning a New York Emmy Award in 1997 for his work on WNET-NY’s (PBS) City Arts series. He has also been a writer and producer at Showtime, Bravo, Court TV, F/x, and New York's MSG MetroGuide channel.
Joe earned his BFA at NYU's Institute of Film & TV where he wrote and directed Max, a short film starring his father, Jack Gilford, playing film festivals and television all over the world.
He is a contributor to Brooklyn: A State of Mind (Workman Press), an anthology of essays and anecdotes about the borough of Brooklyn.
He has been a teacher of screenwriting at Columbia University’s Graduate MFA Film Program, Gotham Writers Workshop, and Pratt Institute and American Comedy Institute. He has served on the judging panels of events such as the Fusion Film Festival (NY) and the Philadelphia Screenplay Festival.
Since 1999 he has taught a variety of screenwriting courses at the Kanbar Undergraduate Dept. of Film & TV at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Joe is represented by Peter Hagen at The Gersh Agency. |
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