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Gregory Jones

GREGORY JONES

  (1971 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Gregory has written seven plays and numerous short works in addition to magazine articles and news reports for the Associated Press. Also an actor, Gregory has performed on Broadway, playing Larry Bird in Magic/Bird. Other shows include Veep on HBO, Elementary on CBS, and Power on Starz. A graduate of Tisch School of the Arts, he studies with Kristin Linklater (Shakespeare), Wynn Handman (scene study), and Sean Patrick Folster (technique). He was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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below is a list of Gregory Jones's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Boris And the Really Boring Books         Galileo Was A Leo?         Hits         Men With Clubs         Red State/Blue State         Rock Out         Touchdown Jesus

Boris And the Really Boring Books

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a seven-year-old boy who loves watching TV and playing video games - anything but reading! - is trapped alone in a library during a blackout. With no electric images to turn to, Boris searches for the one book in the building that won't be really really boring. Over the course of that stormy night, he discovers more about literature, and himself, than he could ever have imagined. Boris and the Really Boring Books is appropriate for children 6+.

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Galileo Was A Leo?

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Jeff is a disgruntled astrophysicist and Galileo worshipper whose dreams come true one night when he discovers extraterrestrial life. However, if faced with the cruel realities this discovery suddenly forces on Jeff, his persecuted scientific idol Galileo may have opted for the burning stake after all. a comedy about life direction and life on other planets, Galileo Was a Leo? turns toward the heavens to look within.

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Comedy

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Hits

Synopsis:
Hits tells the story of a radio DJ pushing thirty who realizes one night that maybe he should have zigged when he zagged in life. While waiting for the next DJ to relieve him on the midnight shift, Bert gets two phone calls that change his world and throw him into a state of shock that floods his mind with memories. a stranger, his alter ego, appears and embodies this onslaught of flashbacks. Bert must make a life-altering decision, and he has to do it before the next song runs out.

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aka All Time Hits

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Men With Clubs

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Men With Clubs hilariously delves into the complexities of life, death and the dreaded onslaught of mid-life crisis among four men - childhood buddies coming together for what might be their last annual golf outing. What starts as "manly-men" fun turns into outrageous, all-out bedlam! Will they all make it back to the clubhouse alive?

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Men with Clubs won the jury prize At HotCity theatre's 2007 GreenHouse New Play Festival in St. Louis And made its world premiere on the HotCity main stage in April 2008. Men with Clubs was Also selected for new play festivals At the Penobscot theatre Company of Maine (2007) As well As the North American Actors Association in London (2006).

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Red State/Blue State

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a tragic comedy about the union of two souls as well as two segments of the U.S. population, Red State/Blue State dives headlong into the fury of current events. as their seventh anniversary dinner turns into an acidic exchange on the merits and faults of Bush and Clinton, ellie and Don discover that their differences over America's direction parallel the worsening crises in their marriage. Red State/Blue State is also a lot of fun, full of taut banter and mudslinging that can just as easily take place over the dinner table as "in the arena."

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In July of 2008, New York's Penguin Repertory Company produced A reading of Greg's tragic comedy Red State/Blue State. It was originally picked by eST, HeRe Arts Center, And Bowery Poetry Club for festivals timed to coincide with the 2004 Republican convention And became A finalist for the 2005 Tennessee Williams Literary Prize for Drama And the 2005 StageWorks/Hudson Play-by-Play Festival. That same year the 2nd Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region selected Red State/Blue State for workshop. In 2007, Greg's play made the finals of the New Jersey Playwrights Contest.

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Rock Out

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Rock Out is a love story told through interpretive dance and recorded music that really matches no category, much like its characters. Two lonely souls who cannot dance to save their lives cling to sound and rhythm to move them in the right direction. In Gary and Mary's dreary office world, words have lost all meaning, especially when it comes to describing and engendering love between two people. Rock Out follows the stages of their incredibly odd courtship - six scenes with no dialogue. Only music - what's playing on his iPod or her stereo or his workstation - can move these two introverts toward something like love.

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Rock Out was presented At the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival, prompting positive reviews from the New York Times And Village Voice critics. (available upon request) Rock Out Also received honorable mention from Moving Arts's 2008 One-act Competition in Los Angeles.

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Linhart Theatre, New York City     2005

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romance One act

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Touchdown Jesus

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Following the forced retirement of a famous pro football quarterback, Touchdown Jesus explores the universal question - what do you do in life when life is done with you? "Downtown" Don McGinn has sacrificed his soul to win a championship. Once he has achieved this glorious goal, though, he finds his sunset years haunted by shabby jobs shilling his former image while the physical toll taken by the game drives him into a mental ditch. This downward spiral leads to hallucinations - or are they? - of otherworldly creatures fighting for D.T.'s conflicted soul.

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