FRED JAY GORDON is an award-winning author and playwright whose plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and Baltimore. Gordon received a BA in English from UC Berkeley, and a scholarship in Film from Columbia University.

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He's a PEN Award winner and former resident writer at the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY.

Fred has taught playwriting as well as English Literature. He was also involved in the casting and production of two Broadway musical-comedy smash hits: SWEET CHARITY starring Gwen Verdon and the musical version of MAME starring Angela Landsbury.

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Born in the Bronx, Fred's heart is in New York, where he still lives.

At 16, Fred wrote, recorded and sold a pop song to Atlantic Records. It was called "Bye, Bye, She Cried". 

Fred had a horse named Pegasus, a red, 17-hand high former racehorse who could jump 5-feet fences. 

The King of Odd Jobs

Fred has worked as a:​

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• social worker in Brooklyn​
• artist's model at the Art Institute in San Francisco​
• salad boy​
• graveyard shift worker in The Tombs (the prison in downtown NYC) 
• ​tour guide at New York's NBC Studios
• ​TV game show contestant
• Budweiser beer delivery guy​
• warehouse floor sweeper