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Kelly Jones

KELLY JONES

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  represented by Nick Quin

Kelly Jones Winner of the BBC Wales Drama Award 2014, a biannual prize supported by National Theatre Wales and BBC Wales. Originally from Dagenham, Essex, Kelly has been based in Wales since 2007. She is a member of Sherman Cymrus writers program and has previously been mentored by Tim Price and Lucy Gannon (TV). Represented By Nick Quinn at The Agency, her writing credits include: (O)ink! (Oran Mor/Sherman Cymru), The Peoples Platform (Commonwealth/NTW), Writer on Attachment (Theatre Clwyd), Tammy (Sherman Cymru/ NTW Rehearsed reading), Hummanequinn (Mess Up the Mess/ TransCymru), The Drowned Girl (The Yard Theatre/Birmingham Rep), Blud (The Otheroom/otherMother), A Steal/Dart (Dirty Protest) and 1.4 for copy (NTW).

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

         1.4 For Copy         Blud         Drowned Girl, The         Snout         Tammy

1.4 For Copy

Synopsis:
1.4 for a copy is a play based on the true story of how my parents met and fell in love on an illegal CB radio in Dagenham in 1981. Long before the internet dating phenomena came CB radio.

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I was given a period of WalesLab development from National Theatre Wales and began working with James Williams in 2013 to help realise the potential of the idea. We spent time looking at CB radio as a platform for performance and then were given further R&D from Arts Council Wales to look at marrying the text and the platform. One of the most interesting things that come out of the R&D was the science of radio waves and the potential to relive these stories again. I am currently working on a new draft of the script and was recently awarded a bursery to work with a technologist to develop a piece of kit or platform for the audience to experience it like a CBer as well as a theatre goer. - playwright website

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Blud

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a play about those girls who are left behind and desperate to belong, A war is waging between rival football clubs outside the window of an abandoned locker room and Rita and her sister Lou have kidnapped a premiership football player. Rita is a warrior. A fighter. As the Commander General of the Cotley Town FC female football firm she and her sister Lou trade in violence and power. But when her old friend and the football club's prized captain Marcus James announces he is leaving for a rival club, Rita's world turns on its axis and she is forced to become the hero of her own war.

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The Other Room at Porter's, Cardiff     01 Sep 2015

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Drowned Girl, The

Synopsis:
Focusing on lost youth, lost loved ones and mermaids, the audience will be taken on a seamless journey through a reality drenched in fantasy, to help Kelly try and remember her true mermaid roots. Created using true stories from Kelly's childhood and told through a fusion of concrete sound and storytelling, The Drowned Girl looks at grief, dealing with change and our fascination with forgetting and washing away the foot-prints of the dearly departed in order to just keep carrying on

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part of NOW'14 collection

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Snout

Synopsis:
Pigs Viv, Coco and Lacey are on their way to the slaughterhouse. Time is running out, the heat is unbearable and they're desperate to escape. But is it too late? And can they escape the van, the purpose that they've been bred for, or reality? Anarchist Coco, wants leave a legacy that's more than just skin-deep; determined to avoid the plate she hatches a master escape plan. But pragmatist Viv and wannabe actress Lacey aren't the escaping kind and can't have Coco muddying the little time they have left to reminisce of the good ole days. This surreal comedy examines why we slaughter animals for fashion, food and questions the ethics in doing so. Warning: you may never eat a pork pie in the same way again!

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Glasgow, Oran Mor     31 Oct 2016

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Tammy

Synopsis:
The script, which won the second Wales Drama Award in December 2014, explores issues considered taboo in society and the effects they can have on a family, drawing on Kelly's own life experiences growing up in Dagenham. The biennial Wales Drama Award celebrates the very best in bold new Welsh writing talent and is a partnership between BBC Cymru Wales Drama, National Theatre Wales & BBC Writersroom.

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