Jessica Goldberg                                                                                     
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Plays include: Get What you Need which was commissioned by The Atlantic Theatre Company (NY); Sex Parasite which received a grant from the NEA, and recently premiered at The Mark Taper Forum's Taper TOO; Good Thing The Mark Taper Forum Taper TOO (LA), The New Group (Off-Broadway). Refuge, which premiered at Playwrights' Horizons (Off-Broadway, NY), won the 1999 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and has had many subsequent productions including The Schaubuehne (West Berlin); The Hologram Theory, and Stuck. Her plays have been translated into German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Catalan; and are published by Dramatists Play Service Inc., Vintage Press and Smith and Krauss. 

Jessica is a graduate of NYU's Dramatic Writing Program and The Julliard School. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South, a recipient of The Le Compte de Nouy stipend, the first annual Helen Merrill Award, and a 2000 Berrilla Kerr Foundation Award. She has been a resident at the O'Neill, New River Dramatists, Colony 3, 10 and 11, is a member of The Dramtist Guild and PEN American Center.

Jessica's film Absent Hearts about the families of the soldiers in Iraq is currently in pre-production with Imagine & Film 44. She also recently completed an adaptation of the film Since Otar Left for Vertigo, and is currently writing the Amadou Ly story for Kennedy/Marshall.