creative bio

Jerome Joseph Gentes

He / Him / His

Executive Director & Founder of TigerBear Productions

I’m a multi-disciplinary experience designer, content strategist & creative producer. If calling me a writer is easiest for you, great!

I create, design, and play across storymaking and storytelling modes and methods of all kinds. I’m passionate about collaborative creation. ​ The future of experience design & storytelling is where I do much of my exploring & imagining. What new ways of sharing stories will we discover in the next year? The next 5? The next 10? Let’s discover that together!

on stages

Productions

2021
Southern California

TigerBear Productions

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

producing Deal With The Dragon, NYC producing The Also-Ran (for the Benefit of Miss Jennie Gourlay)

2020
San Francisco, CA

Musical Cafe Showcase Series

CO-FOUNDER & PRODUCER

produced 7 showcase productions in the SF Bay Area showcased 25+ new, original, locally-sourced musical projects supported 50+ actors, directors, writers & composers ​ grew & sustained audience & membership

2020
San Francisco, CA

Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco

CO-PRODUCER

Nominee, Theatre Bay Area Awards, Outstanding Anthology Production co-produced with Bridgette Dutta Portman eight 10-minute plays by Kristin Anundsen, Vonn Scott Bair, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Carol Lashof, Lorraine Midanik, Rod McFadden, Diane Sampson, Annette Roman featuring Michael Conner, Janet Dyer, Amanda J. Lee, Brian Levi, Kate Rose Reynolds, John Steele, Jr. & Jasmine Milan Williams

Plays

February 2020
Berkeley, CA

Bethesda

a ten-minute play written for Monday Night PlayGround with the support of PlayGround directed by Claire Ganem with Champagne Hughes, Catherine Riddley, and Khary L. Moye

January 2020
Berkeley, CA

Of Kind and Kindness

a ten-minute play written for Monday Night PlayGround with the support of PlayGround directed by Jeffery Lo / with Jomar Tagatac and Patrick Kelly Jones

September 2019
SF Fringe Festival

Knuckles

“Techie’s Choice: Best of the Fringe” a 2.5-minute microplay Fingertips: 21 Plays In 60 Minutes (Or Less) produced and directed by Steven Westdahl

on screens

Scripts

In progress

Mirrorball

original full-length script

In progress

Lesbian Charm School

original short script collaboration with Nancy Kates and others

AR / VR

2021

Untitled AR/VR Project

(still figuring this one out!)

on pages

Poetry

April 2014

In Circles: A Villanelle

PianoFight Celebrates National Poetry Month 2014

Publications

January 2017

Or, or, The Play Of Light

Eleven Eleven: A Journal of Literature and Art

California College of the Arts, San Francisco

 

April 2004

“From Meet the Press to Meet the Parent”

Interview with the late Tim Russert

Publishers Weekly

January 2008

“Szechuan and the City”

Interview with Jennifer 8. Lee

Publishers Weekly

August 2009

“Cooking the Books with Frank Bruni”

Interview with Frank Bruni

Publishers Weekly

additional

Professional

2017-2021

Principal Content Designer, Intuit

2012-2017

Content Writer and Strategist, Meyer Corporation, U.S.