Who is Gordy Hoffman?
Raised in Fairport, N.Y., Gordy Hoffman graduated from the University of Kansas in 1987. He wrote his first stage play, in Washington, D.C., where he was selected as a member of the Jeannie McKean Moore Poetry Workshop at George Washington University in 1990. In 1994, Gordy founded Company, a Chicago-based experimental workshop that explored the creation of original text through imaginative use of the voice and body. His plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, England and Australia.
Gordy went on to found Company's Marathon, the only annual back-to-back reading of William Shakespeare's 37 plays in the world, as well as the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. (bluecatscreenplay.com). He has been the judge of BlueCat for eight years, as well as having led screenwriting workshops at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles, and the Loft Theatre in Tuscon.
In 2001, Gordy was chosen for Fox Searchlab, a director development program at Fox Searchlight, where he wrote and directed three digital shorts, THE WOMAN WHO STOPPED SEEING MOVIES, JACK SIGNS and UNTITLED.
Gordy's screenplay, LOVE LIZA, directed by Todd Louiso and starring his brother, Philip Seymour Hoffman, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
He made his feature directorial debut with A COAT OF SNOW, which premiered at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival and the 2006 Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles. Gordy is currently rewriting his next directing project, a feature set entirely in an American butcher shop.
He is represented by William Morris and Brillstein-Grey.
©2008 Gordy Hoffman