George Savage Jr. is the son of a playwright, his father, with whom he collaborated in the
1960s in Los Angeles. Together they developed what became known as a Savage Play: a
western folk play that usually had a big cast and took place over a weekend. There are
cowboy plays, historical plays, a play set in a gas station, a play about a sailor, and one
about a garbage collector. The senior Savage died in 1977 but the son, who now goes by
Jorj, continued to work in fringe theater. He had 20 plays in the New City Theater Festivals
of the 1980s, many directed by Bruce McLean. and 7 plays in the Seattle Fringe Theater
Festivals, many directed by Roi-Martin Brown. At this point there are 25 full length plays
all of which have had some kind of production and subsequent re-writes. Most recently,
Jorj produced his play about women boxers, THE WOMAN WHO WAS LIKE STEVE MCQUEEN,
at the Odd Duck in the summer of 2007, directed by Roi-Martin Brown. Jorj is currently
working on his first 2 character play, WOMAN WITHOUT A COAT, about a woman thrown
out of a concert who spends the night with a man 50 years her senior. This play will be
read at SPS (which meets at Arts West in West Seattle)) Monday, March 28th, 2011.

Professions/skills: Playwright