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Ken Jones

KEN JONES

  (1962 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Ken Jones is an award winning playwright and screenwriter. Ken received degrees in playwriting from the University of Florida, University of Virginia and Harvard University. Jones participated in the Warner Bros. Television Writer's Workshop and went on to serve as the Head Writer for LightPoint entertainment at the Disney-MGM Studios in FloridA. His play, a ReD eaGLe FaLLING, was produced in New York City's WRITeR's Theatre in 1986, and in 1989, TIMe magazine chose Ken Jones' play, DaRKSIDe for its Critics' Choice. Jones has had over 350 productions of his plays. Other plays include: the MIDDLe OF YeSTeRDaY, THY BROtheR's KeePeR, BURGeRTOWN, the SPaCe BeTWeeN MONDaY aND TUeSDaY, VICTIMS OF the ICe aGe, the GReaT eaSTeR eGG HUNT, the ROCK COLLeCTION and the BIG ONe. Many of his play have been published, and his works are listed in several anthologies and monologue books. His screenplays include TRIaNGLeS aND TRIBULaTIONS, OVeR the MOON, and DReaM THIeF. He has won a Telly award, a Communicator's award, the Post-Corbett award for Literary artist, the DuPont Fellowship, the Delauney Playwriting award, the Denver Prima Facie award, the Kentucky Playwright's award, and he received an emmy nomination in 1994. He lives in Burlington, Kentucky, usa, with his wife, Christine, and their 3 children. He is the Chairman of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Northern Kentucky University.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Big One, The         Burgertown         Cavemen And Candidates         Church Girls, Unmatilla USA: the Musical         Cure, The         Darkside         Dead To the Last Drop         Faculty Meeting, The         Great Easter Egg Hunt, The         Middle Of Yesterday, The         Red Eagle Falling, A         Rock Collection, The         Space Between Monday And Tuesday, The         Thy Brother's Keeper         Victims Of the Ice Age
Big One, The

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Burgertown

Burgertown
a fry cook invents a burger sensation which changes the world and his life

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Music by Jamey Strawn; lyrics by Christine Jones; book by Ken Jones

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Theatre Building, Chicago    

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Original Kentucky cast recording: Original Cast Records (6851558) 2005

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Musical Comedy Musical

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Cavemen And Candidates

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an anthropologist is pulled into the world of politics by his ex-college roommate who now happens to be a US Senator.

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Originally titled Victims Of the Ice Age

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Falcon Productions At The Westwood Theatre    

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jonesk@nku.edu,    

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Comedy

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Church Girls, Unmatilla USA: the Musical

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Cure, The

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Part Of Short And Sweet, Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, The Edge, Auckland     12 Jul 2011

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ten min play

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Darkside

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flashbacks as two American astronauts are stranded in a lunar landing whilst a third orbits in the command module

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Denver Center For The Performing Arts    

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Samuel French, London, 1989   

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Play/Drama

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Dead To the Last Drop

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Commonwealth Theatre Company In Cincinnati, Oh    

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Heuer Publishing LLC   

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Interactive Murder Mystery

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Faculty Meeting, The

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One act

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Great Easter Egg Hunt, The

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one day in an isolated town that reflects the greed, cowardice, regret, avarice, love, stupidity, hope, passion and Drama of life in America

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New Play Festival- American Repertory Theatre    

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Samuel French, NY,    

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Comedy

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Middle Of Yesterday, The

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the story of a man suffering from azheimer's Disease and his journey through the disjointed world of his past.

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Kentucky Commonwealth Theatre    

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Heuer Publishing LLC, 2006   

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Red Eagle Falling, A

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against a background of World War I, a ReD eaGLe FaLLING tells the story of one man's loneliness and torment as he confronts the truths of war. Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, after receiving a head wound begins to see and speak with the images of the pilots he has shot down. Soon his tiny barracks is filled with the spirits of British pilots, haunting the once unemotional Baron. Only with intervention from his love, Katie, can he begin to focus on his duties and continue to fly.

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It has been produced 35 times throughout the U.S., Canada, And Germany. the play has been won A Delauney Playwriting Award for Best Drama.

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Writer's Theatre, NYC     1986

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Project III ensemble

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Heuer Publishing LLC, 2006   

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Rock Collection, The

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Space Between Monday And Tuesday, The

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Thy Brother's Keeper

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Victims Of the Ice Age

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Comedy; Farce Comedy

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