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Since I was young I have undertaken to share with others my ideas, thoughts, feelings and experiences.

I made films, produced plays, wrote and told stories- all in an effort to share myself… my thoughts, feelings and ideas… with others.

I have traveled the world. I have sought life’s most powerful experiences:

worked as a Nursing Assistant in an Emergency Room
flown airplanes solo
worked alongside movie stars
gone where my heart directed

Perhaps knowing that no matter where I was – what I was experiencing, I could expect redemption, payback, fulfillment, for I knew I was never alone, and always had someone I would share myself with. My redemption would derive from the knowledge that I would be sharing my experiences with others.My stories are simply an outpouring of my self. “Write what you know”. Human experience is what I know.

Drama. Romance. Devastation. Desperation. Exhilaration. All places I’ve been.

I am emotional, sensitive, idealistic, romantic. I believe that life should be large, stirring, moving, fulfilling, challenging – and when viewed from above – worthy of undertaking.

I view life as a gift, a “project”, something we are presented with that must not only be endured, suffered, seen through to the end but relished, tested, pushed, prodded, played with, truly experienced with feeling and shared.

I’m romantic, sensitive, dramatic. I need to share. I’m observant, driven by human experience. I was brought up by an actress for a mother. I’m educated, intelligent, descriptive. I pay attention to detail.

I have been involved with motion picture screenplays, television teleplays, and theatre scripts my whole life. I want to make people laugh, cry, think, move, become inspired.

I disdain the robots and sellouts. Those who can cast aside their true selves for something they are led to believe or are shown from others. It is the poet, singer, artist, adventurer, actor, builder, wanderer, searcher that I respect – for these people have come to realize the value of emotions, sense and experience.
THAT’S ME

Not only do I have an active and vivid imagination, but my life’s experiences have served to impress in me the impact of life – the trial – the challenge – the physical, spiritual and emotional strife that we all must face. I have witnessed movie stars performing before the camera, driven all night with rock stars, thumped the chests of hundreds of people on death’s doorstep, shoved young men my age into shiny stiff stainless steel morgue drawers, and seen a young resident doctor break down, facing the unimaginable task of saving his sister-in-law while knowing his wife and child had perished. I’ve hitch-hiked the Eastern coast line – twice. I’ve soloed in small planes 25 times, been caught in hurricanes, floods, and the earthquake of 89’ in San Francisco.

Stuff that I use – that I draw upon. My Life’s History – goes into my bag of story telling tricks when I set fingers to keyboard.
THAT’S ME.

Geoffrey “Geoff” Zimmerman is an author, poet, explorer and romantic living in Richmond, Virginia

Curriculum Vitae

NOVELS / BOOKS:

“Love Never Dies”, (The Waves of Love and Life), author, completed novel, 1st in a trilogy, 475 pages
“Love Never Dies”, (Kindred Spirits), author, 2nd novel in a trilogy, 80 pages
“What You Don’t Feel Can Kill You”, co-author, self-help book, 210 pages

Testimonial on “Love Never Dies”
You are gifted and talented. Great first paragraph that grabbed my attention and made me want to keep reading. I love the topic you chose and the style of your writing. You have strong words that grab the attention of readers. I look forward to purchasing this book and am sure it will have an amazing ending…
–by Crystal Roberts-Winters

SCREENPLAYS:

“The Last Chain”, co-writer, short dramatic film script, 24 pages
“One For The Money”, feature screenplay, 119 pages
“A Temple Called The Body”, feature screenplay, 126 pages
“The Shoe Salesman”, short comedy screenplay, 26 pages
“Over The Line and Back Again”, feature screenplay, 80 pages
“Somewhere In Southern California”, co-writer, short comedy screenplay, 24 pages
“Passage”, ghost-writer, feature screenplay, 125 pages
“The Servant’s Dessert”, short dramatic screenplay, 8 pages

ARTICLES / ESSAYS:

What Do You Take Me For?, (delivery man at a busy restaurant
Intercultural Relationships, (dating in Europe)
When It’s Yours and When It’s Mine, (dealing with roommates)
Letters To Friends When Friends Don’t Write, (living overseas)
Feeling Like a Ghost, (life in a foreign country)

SHORT STORIES:

“Two Men And a Train”, 12 pages
“Jay”, 24 pages
“Lorraine”, 26 pages
“The Coffee Shop”, 18 pages
“Love Lost”, 18 pages
“The Last One”, 10 pages
“Christmas In San Francisco”, 8 pages
“The Rim”, 4 pages
“Jane Hates Dick”, 8 pages

STAGE PLAYS:

“The Rainbow Maker”, 69 pages

TELEVISION COMMERCIALS:

The Damn Yankee Bistro, copywriter, 30 second local spot, Miami, FL.
Faces in The Grove, copywriter, 30 second local spot, Coconut Grove, FL.
Chesterfield airport flight school, local spot, Richmond, VA.
The First Intl. Model Productions Modeling & Acting Seminar, local spot, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

TELEPLAYS:

“Video Club”, and MTV style TV show, Miami, FL.
“Miami Vice”, co-writer, one episode, Miami, FL.
“Friends”, a 60 minute children’s educational TV show pilot, Glastonbury, CT.
“Friendship At Its Best”, a 10 minute episodic drama included in “Friends” above
“The Key Fits”, co-writer, 46 page “Miami Vice” episode, Miami, FL. (not produced)
“Mystery Café”, 30 minute episodic TV show pilot, Richmond, VA.

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