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Lee Adam Gooden
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Lee Gooden aka "L.A. Gooden" (born January 18, 1968), is an American playwright, director, and poet. His stage
productions often contain critiques of morality and contemporary culture. Gooden is noted most recently for
creating and producing material to be performed by people with developmental disabilities.
[edit] Biography
Gooden married his wife, Lindy, in the 1990s. They have three daughters.
Gooden is the winner of the 1995 Parnassus Award for Poetry.
In 2000, Lee Gooden co-created the production company Triumvirate Creative Associates (T.C.A.) with co-
founders Brett Scoville and Leon Spath to showcase their own original works using regional talent. T.C.A.
Successfully produced a number of plays including Concessions, the Leaning House of Pizza, and Quarternity all
written by Gooden, as well as notable works such as The Glass Menagerie. [1] [2] Co-founder Brett Scoville
spearheaded the 2003 Upstate Poetry Festival which featured regional poets and musicians from the upper
Hudson Valley. [3][4] Gooden put his own poetry aside for the most part, focusing on emceeing the event, using
his regional standing as an up and coming writer to draw an audience, with modest success. [5]
Gooden was soon approached by his regional ARC to consider creating a short-short play for them. The WWARC
drama group features performances by people with developmental disabilities. [6] Dialogue For Identity was
performed by The WWARC Drama Group and Gooden won the Award for best short play. Gooden's relationship
with the drama group continued with a futuristic courtroom drama, The First Stone in 2004. Gooden’s modern
adaptation of A Christmas Carol, retitled Xmas Carole, was also performed by the WWARC Drama Group in 2005.
Gooden’s full-length comedic murder mystery Rushes was performed in April 2006, by the WWARC Drama Group.
Gooden began reviewing others' works, publishing both in print and online media such as ForeWordmagazine.com
[7] He also has written literary book reviews for Scribesworld.com, TCM Reviews and independently for subsidy, p.
o.d, and his own review site, OALA Reviews. His review of the Ann Kelly novel, Dead On, was chosen for the
iUniverse Publishing Author News Web site.
Gooden also continues to shepherd his other works into production such as the 2004 short play Signed, Sealed,
and Delivered - part of WILD'S annual Valley of Legends show at McAllen University in McAllen, Texas.
Gooden currently is an artistic director, resident playwright and dramaturge for APT Theater, an inclusionary
community theater for people with and without developmental disabilities. He has been commissioned by Apt to
write the play, "The Zero People" to be performed by APT in fall 2007 and winter 2008.
Gooden currently is the artistic Director and resident playwright with the So It Goes Players, members of So It
Goes Productions he has been writing and acting in his original 10 part radio drama, "For The Benefit of Mister
Kite" from So It Goes Theater on Blog Talk Radio
Gooden is the host of Lazarus Tales, a talk show on literature, also on Blog Talk Radio.