Jessica Goldberg

Jessica Goldberg (born 1975) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and television writer. In 1999, she won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, Refuge. Goldberg is the creator of the Hulu series The Path and served as the showrunner for the Netflix series Away. Early life and education Goldberg is from Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was raised Jewish and grew up in Woodstock, New York. Goldberg is a graduate of the dramatic writing program at New York University, and of the Juilliard School. Career She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South and a recipient of the Le Compte de Nouy stipend, the first annual Helen Merrill Award, and a 2000 Berrilla Kerr Foundation Award. She was also a resident at New River Dramatists, a member of the PEN American Center. Her play What You Need was commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company. Refuge premiered at Playwrights' Horizons and won the 1999 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.