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Jeff Goldberg, is a writer, director, actor, acting teacher and educator. Originally from New City, New York, Jeff has had the pleasure to work and teach at some of the finest institutions in the world. His films and plays have garnered both critical and audience acclaim.

Jeff currently resides in Mumbai, India where he runs the Jeff Goldberg Studio, one of India’s finest acting institutions, which has trained many fine actors who are in their own right appearing in top box office films, web-series, television commercials, and theatre.

Early Life
Jeff was born in New City, New York, to Lewis Goldberg, businessman and Carole-Beth Gold, New York City schoolteacher. Jeff was educated at Clarkstown High School North, following which he completed a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Science in Film & Television from Boston University. Upon graduating in 2000, Jeff moved to Paris, France where he did his Master of Fine Arts in Film Direction from École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation (EICAR), The International Film School of Paris (French Section).

Jeff lived in Paris, France for nearly the next decade, with stints in Los Angeles, Cusco, Peru, Geneva, Switzerland and Brussels, Belgium. Principally, based in France from 2000-2009, Jeff co-founded and set-up the international department of École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation (EICAR). He developed and authored the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts for École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation’s English language film directing program.

Career
Jeff's work as a director, actor, scriptwriter and producer has garnered international recognition. Living and working in Mumbai for the past six-years his plays have been staged all over the city to sold-out shows. Two of his plays, “Six”  starring Prateik Babbar and Suhail Sidhwani and “CookieMachine”  starting Karan Pandit and Jeff himself have been staged at many venues, including National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) since premiering in the summer of 2016. His other ensemble play “An Ode to M.V. Wisdom”  has also been seen all over Mumbai greeted by sold-out audiences since 2013.

As a filmmaker his first feature film "Solomon Enev" premiered at the 14th St. Petersburg International Film Festival in 2006. Following this project his feature film script "Aleksander Rouge" won Best Screenplay at the ECU, European Independent Film Festival. His project "Slightly Sane" with Pan Nalin won best project at The Busan International Film Festival.

As an actor Jeff has appeared on stage and in several Indian and international films, including “Angry Indian Goddesses” directed by Pan Nalin and “Hawaizaada” by Vibhu Puri. Jeff appeared in France 2's elaborate 18th century mini-series, playing the key role of Robert Clive in "Rani". He also voiced all three of lead characters in the award winning animation short “Do the Good” which featured at the Best Animation Film (5-15 minute) The International Film Festival IFFI, Goa, India. Nominee 16th AMC Kansas City Film Festival, Kansas City, USA. Nominee 1st Kuala Lumpur International Short Film Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Jeff has also had the pleasure to direct, act, write & produce several short films that have collected awards and appeared at festivals throughout the world including the London Asian Film Festival, Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Solothurn Film Festival in Switzerland, and “Silver Award for Best ASEAN Short Film” 10th and Malaysian Video Awards Festival, Kuala Lumpur.

For more than a decade Jeff has been teaching acting, scriptwriting and directing at some of the finest acting and films schools all over the world. He currently runs the Jeff Goldberg Studio in Mumbai. The actors from JG-Studio have appeared in many films and shows, including several top box office movies like “Fan (film)”, “Neerja”, “Raman Ragav 2.0”. “Barff”, “Gandhi The Musical”, and “Mughal-e-Azam.” He was also a faculty member at the world renowned Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute New York City. He has also taught film and screenwriting at the School of Visual Arts and Fordham University in NYC. Jeff was also invtited to lecture at Brown University about screenwriting in 2012. Before that he was one of the two co-founders and first Director of École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation (EICAR), The International film School of Paris.

Personal Life
Jeff has one son named Ishan who lives in Mumbai, India with him.