About

Jeremy Geragotelis is a playwright, composer, and scholar. They are currently pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Their work focuses mainly on the behavior of goodness, the reiterative function of bodies across time, and the interstitial space - inherently coded as queer - in theatrical form.

Their plays include AN UNSETTLED BODY (The University of Iowa), PINS AND NEEDLES, OR THE CIRCUMSTANCE OF FALLING FOREVER ON ASH WEDNESDAY, 1988 (New Play Festival, Reading Series, The University of Iowa), THE PREPARATION TO THE DEATH OF MARY DYER (KCACTF, Musical Theater Award, 2020 - 2021, O’Neill Music Theater Conference Semi-Finalist), DOCTOR VYSARIUS (New Play Festival, Production Series, The University of Iowa), and IT’S LIKE RIDING A BIKE (New Play Festival, Production Series, The University of Iowa, The American Prize (Second Place, 2023)).

They are a founding member of Water House Collective, a theater collective committed to building new mythologies for the Queer community through daring methodologies in storytelling, performance, and design. They graduated from The Playwrights Workshop at The University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 2022 and from Bennington College with a B.A. in 2016. They have studied playwriting with Sherry Kramer and composition with Allen Shawn.

Along with their creative work, Jeremy is also an accomplished teacher, having taught in a variety of disciplines at Greene Street Friends School in Philadelphia, PA, The Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, MA, and The University of Iowa Rhetoric Department (Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2021) in Iowa City, IA.