Gordy Hoffman
Gordon Richard Hoffman is an American screenwriter and director. He is the older brother of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Gordy Hoffman
- Name
- Gordy Hoffman
- Birth Name
- Gordon Richard Hoffman
- Occupation
- Screenwriter, director
- Born
- 1964 · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Fairport High School
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• Name — Gordy Hoffman • Birth Name — Gordon Richard Hoffman • Occupation — Screenwriter, director • Relatives — * Philip Seymour Hoffman (brother) • Cooper Hoffman (nephew)
Early life
Early life
His mother, Marilyn O'Connor (née Loucks), a native of Waterloo, New York, is a family court judge and lawyer. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, is a former Xerox executive. He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, in addition to his late brother Philip. His parents divorced in 1976. Hoffman was raised in Fairport, New York. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1987. After graduating, Hoffman lived in Chicago and Washington, D.C., where he pursued writing and directing in theater. He later moved to Los Angeles.
Theater
Theater
Hoffman wrote his first play, Hong Kong, in Washington, D.C. In 1994, Hoffman founded Company, an experimental theater workshop in Chicago. Through Company, Hoffman directed productions of Titus Andronicus and She Ventures and He Wins. Hoffman’s other plays include Bevakasha, A Stab at Fixing, Frozen Cat, Bed Set, Happyland, Outdoor MAAN, and A Deeper Water. Hoffman also founded Company’s Marathon, an annual back-to-back reading of William Shakespeare’s 37 plays.
Film
Hoffman made his feature directorial debut with A Coat of Snow, which he also wrote and produced. The film premiered at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival. In 2015, Hoffman wrote and directed the short film Dog Bowl, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2002, he wrote the screenplay for the film Love Liza, about a man dealing with his wife's suicide. The Guardian Peter Bradshaw described it as a "very melancholy evening in the cinema... an intelligent and harrowing movie," while Ed Gonzalez from Slant Magazine disparagingly wrote: "Love Liza will have a difficult time distinguishing itself from Alexander Payne's About Schmidt, another widower-in-chaos comedy starring [[Kathy Bates|[Kathy] Bates]] in an undervalued role. Love Liza is nowhere near as condescending but its shrill pitch makes it just as difficult to take." The film received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. In 1998, Hoffman founded the BlueCat Screenplay Competition to discover and develop emerging screenwriters.
Teaching
Hoffman has taught screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
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- 1.Filmreference.com. Philip Seymour Hoffman Biography (1967–).
- 2.Shaw, David L. Oscar-Winner's Mother Was Born in Waterloo. Syracuse Post Standard. 78. March 7, 2006.
- 3.Movies.yahoo.com. Yahoo.
- 4.Sony Pictures Classics. Love Liza Press Kit.
- 5.Hollywood rock chalk of fame: KU students spend a week as Tinsel Town interns. LJWorld.com.
- 6.independent, Susan King Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories She also wrote about. A family project for the Hoffmans. Los Angeles Times. 2003-01-03.
- 7.A Coat of Snow Cast and Crew Rotten Tomatoes. www.rottentomatoes.com.
- 8.Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge - by Gordy Hoffman.
- 9.Kay, Jeremy. Sundance unveils shorts roster. Screen.
- 10.Bruce Weber. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor of Depth, Dies at 46. The New York Times. February 2, 2014.
- 11.Peter Bradshaw. Love Liza. The Guardian. 2014.
- 12.Ed Gonzalez. Love Liza. Slant Magazine. November 22, 2002.
- 13.X. Women and Their Stories Merit Prizes. Los Angeles Times. 2002-01-21.
- 14.Molloy, Tim. BlueCat Screenplay Competition - MovieMaker Magazine. 2021-05-22.
- 15.About. BlueCat Screenplay Competition.
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