Gary Gordon lives in Venice, California, where he is a novelist, songwriter, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, travel writer, musician, and publisher & editor of The Fictional Times.
     Gordon is currently co-writing Dragonfly Jones, a screenplay, with actor-comic Tommy Davidson, is actively promoting his new CD, The Smoking Gun Cafe, and is working regularly, publishing The Fictional Times, a satire e-newspaper available only on his site: he is the publisher, editor and chief writer.
     He performs his original songs and comedy/commentary monologues at various venues in the L.A. area, including Borders Books, Village Books, The Unurban (and the Beatnik Cafe in Joshua Tree), and his band plays at area venues, including Rusty's On The Pier, Arcadia, The Promenade, and at the Santa Monica Main Street Farmer's Market.
     He wrote the first and second editions of Southern California Travel Smart (TM) for John Muir Publications (1997 and 1999), now published by Avalon, a travel book for those traveling through... Southern California.
     Gordon grew up in Gainesville, Florida, studied history at Emory University and holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern University; he returned to Gainesville in 1975, where, from 1983 to 1986, he served on the City Commission, first as City Commissioner, then as Mayor-Commissioner, after playing in a rock n roll band and working as a political activist and record store manager.
     He was director, co-producer, and co-writer (with Ron Birnbach) of the internationally recognized and critically acclaimed satire O.J. Law, which celebrated a six-month run in Los Angeles during the infamous trial. His western novel, Crossfire Canyon, was published by Zebra Books in 1986. Nine of his plays, including political satires, dramas, and children's musicals, have been produced in the past ten years.
     He co-wrote, produced, and hosted The Gary Gordon Comedy Hour on WUFT-FM/Classic 89, which aired weekly from 1988 to 1990.
     Gordon's most recent politcal satire, the radio play Elvis & Lady MacBeth at the Heartbreak Hotel (about the Clinton-Starr scandal), can be heard on Broadcast.com (at www.broadcast.com)
www.broadcast.com/jukebox/albums/e/elvisandladymacbethattheheartbreakhotel_2728.html
     He draws on his political activism and city hall background in Gainesville, working as the staffperson for the Santa Monica Main Street Merchants Assocation on parking, zoning and related issues, and on promotion and marketing.
     Gordon has written movie reviews for the L.A. Free Press and currently writes periodically for the Santa Monica Mirror.
     Gordon has worked as a waiter, teacher, driver, video transcriber, political organizer, lobbyist, ghostwriter, screenplay judge, and managed Hyde & Zeke Records & Tapes in Gainesville, Florida, 1980-1985, and he's the same Gary Gordon who used to be in the Archer Road Band.
     He plays racquetball, and has been an ardent Baltimore Oriole fan since 1960, despite this past year.




Gordon with bandmates Kenny Shore and Dave Durham
aka The Archer Road Band, 1978