# Jessica Goldberg

Jessica Goldberg (born 1975) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and television writer. In 1999, she won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, Refuge. Goldberg is the creator of the Hulu series The Path and served as the showrunner for the Netflix series Away.

## Early life and education

Goldberg is from Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was raised Jewish and grew up in Woodstock, New York. Goldberg is a graduate of the dramatic writing program at New York University, and of the Juilliard School.

## Career

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. She was also a resident at New River Dramatists, a member of the PEN American Center.
Her play What You Need was commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company. Refuge premiered at Playwrights' Horizons and won the 1999 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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. Goldberg created the television series The Path, which aired three seasons on Hulu before being cancelled in 2022. Goldberg served as the showrunner for the 2020 Netflix series Away. She received a Gracie Award in 2021 in the category, "Showrunner Fiction – Drama," for her work on Away.

## Personal life

Goldberg married actor and playwright Hamish Linklater in 2002. They have one child, Lucinda Rose, but later divorced.

## Works
### Plays

* Babe (2022)
* Better (2014)
* Affair Play
* Katzman and the Mayor
* The Schaubuhne
* Body Politic
* Sex Parasite
* 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
* The Hunger Education
* What You Need
* Ward 57

### Screenplays

* Cherry
* Absent Hearts
* 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

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
| 2006 | Affair Game | No | Yes | No | Short film, story and screenplay |
| 2008 | The Prince of Motor City | No | Yes | No | TV movie, creator and story |
| 2012 | Refuge | Yes | Yes | No | Based on her play of the same name |
| 2013 | Deception | No | Yes | Yes | As co-producer: 11 episodes As writer: "Good Luck With Your Death" |
| 2013 | Camp | No | Yes | Yes | As producer: 10 episodes As writer: "CIT Overnight" and "Valentine's Day in July" |
| 2013-2014 | Parenthood | No | Yes | Yes | As producer: 17 episodes (2013-14) As supervising producer: 13 episodes (2014-15) As writer: "Aaron Brownstein Must Be Stopped," "The Waiting Room," "Limbo," "Jump Ball," and "Let's Be Mad Together" |
| 2016-2018 | The Path | Yes | Yes | Yes | Creator, executive producer As director: "A New American Religion" and "Mercy" As writer: 11 episodes |
| 2018 | Suspicion | No | Yes | Yes | TV movie, creator and executive producer |
| 2020 | Away | No | Yes | Yes | Executive producer As writer: "Spektr" and "Negative Return" Won Gracie Award 2021 for "Showrunner Fiction – Drama" |
| 2021 | Cherry | No | Yes | No | Screenplay co-written with Angela Russo-Otstot |

### Film

| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
| 2014 | Alex of Venice | No | Yes | No | Co-written with Katie Nehra and Justin Shilton | |