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
January 2008
August 2009
additional
Professional
2017-2021
Principal Content Designer, Intuit
2012-2017
Content Writer and Strategist, Meyer Corporation, U.S.