Winner of the WGA Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the American
Theatre Critics Association's playwriting award, and an Emmy nominee, Jeffrey
has been widely produced on TV and stage. His Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation
of Hugh Whitemore's play Pack of Lies was nominated for best TV
movie and best script and won the Peabody Award. He also wrote pilots for
Norman Lear, the Charles Brothers, Columbia Television and Hearst Entertainment.
He spent two years writing for the soaps One Life to Live and Another
World. For the stage, he wrote The Value of Names, Porch,
With and Without, and American Enterprise and collaborated
on the musicals I Sent a Letter to My Love (written with Melissa
Manchester) and What About Luv?, which featured Nathan Lane Off-Broadway
and played successful engagements in London and Tokyo. He is the author
of two books, Something Wonderful Right Away, and The Dramatist's
Toolkit. He recently taught playwriting simultaneously for the MFA
programs at the Actors Studio and Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a member
of the Dramatists Guild.
