Jeremy Moody is a playwright/screenwriter/storyteller, recovering academic, and reluctant actor from RICHMOND, VA. He entered VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY as an ART HISTORY MAJOR and eventually left with a degree in RELIGIOUS STUDIES while coming up through the punk/hard core/metal scene. Outside of the classroom Moody was exploring the world of TIBETAN BUDDHISM with the hopes of possibly becoming a monk. While that didn’t work out, it led him to complete an MA in INDO-TIBETAN STUDIES form the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

He began teaching university courses such as WORLD RELIGIONS, BUDDHISM, HINDUISM, LIFE, DEATH, AND MEANING, and CULTS AND CONSPIRACIES while still pursuing a music career.

In 2017, weeks before his band’s second record was to be released, Moody’s life changed forever when he was diagnosed with YOUNG ONSET PARKINSON’S DISEASE. The band was over, and suddenly the “things that mattered, didn’t matter anymore” while “the things that were trivial, weren’t trivial anymore.”

Navigating the minefield that is dating in your thirties while navigating an unstoppable disease led to many misadventures, and Parkinson’s became a better teacher of patience than Buddhism.

Jeremy’s years of teaching and researching philosophical and religious traditions mixed with his blunt, sarcastic, no nonsense punk rock attitude, and his fearless openness gave him a unique narrative voice. He wrote a T.V. Pilot inspired by the events of his living with PARKINSON’S and in 2026 opened THEM’S THE SHAKES: LIFE, LOVE, AND PARKINSON’S, an autobiographical show that enjoyed a critically acclaimed award winning run at the 2026 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL. The show is ultimately a love letter to the people who don’t run from the “no win” situations in life so that we can live and ultimately die with dignity and grace.

Today Jeremy’s writing focuses on human’s search for meaning that pull from his own life experiences from baseball card collecting as a kid to yoga cults. He also gives talks, appears at storytelling shows, and on occasion performs stand-up (as his material is about Parkinson’s, he calls it “fall down comedy”).