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Rolin Jones

ROLIN JONES

  (1972? - )
Nationality:    USA
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Rolin Jones. Rolin Jones' play the Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. It received the 2006 Obie award for excEllence in Playwriting. Productions ofJenny Chow include: South Coast Repertory, Old Globe Theatre, Yale Repertory, Studio Theatre (DC), Atlantic Theater Company (NYC), Portland Center Stage, San Jose Repertory, among others. His full-length play, the Jammer, received a Fringe First award for Best New Writing at 2004's Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was also produced at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. He has written several short plays for the actors Theater of Louisville's Humana Festival, includingSovereignty, Ron Robby Had Too Big a Heart, the Mercury and the Magic, extremely, and Chronicles Simpkins Will Cur Your ass. all of these were recently produced together under the title Shortstackat Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. For the last four years, Mr. Jones has been a writer/producer for Showtime's award-winning series, Weeds.

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         Another In A Long Line Of Idiot Children         Chronicles Simpkins Will Cut Your Ass         Extremely         Game On         Intelligent Design Of Jenny Chow, The: An Instant Message With Excitable Music         Jammer, The         Mercury And the Magic, The         Open Road Anthology, The         Ron Bobby Had Too Big A Heart         Short Stack         Sovereignty         These! Paper! Bullets!

Another In A Long Line Of Idiot Children

Synopsis:
The mother sits around drinking litres of wine, the father sits around playing cards. The son is tied to a chair

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Chronicles Simpkins Will Cut Your Ass

Synopsis:
Fourth-grader Chronicles Simpkins is the Undisputed Unified Tetherball Champion of Recess, Lunch, and after School. She rules the tetherball court of Woodlake avenue elementary with an iron fist -- but what happens when a new challenger dares to enter her ten-foot circle of pain?

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1st Produced:
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Wellfleet, Ma    05 Jul 2008

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in Great Short Comedies: Volume 6, Playscripts Inc   -

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Genre:
short comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  5-11 actors possible: 3-6 females, 2-5 males

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Extremely

Extremely
Johnny and Josh are extreme. Extreme extreme. You can't even handle how extreme they are. Neither, it seems, can they. A riotous short about going to -- and over -- the limit.

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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Wellfleet, Ma    -

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in "Great Short Plays: Volume 10", Playscripts Inc, 2014   -

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Genre:
Short Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  2 either (4-9 actors possible: 0-4 f, 2-5 m)

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Game On

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Intelligent Design Of Jenny Chow, The: An Instant Message With Excitable Music

Synopsis:
Twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Marcus is an obsessive-compulsive agorophobe with a genius IQ. In a quest to learn more about her Chinese biological parents, Jennifer builds "Jenny Chow," a robot replica of herself who helps her piece together her past.

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South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa, Ca    -

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Play/Drama

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Jammer, The

Synopsis:
the JaMMeR resurrects that greatest of American entertainments, the Roller Derby: half sport, half show, all action. In just over an hour, the JaMMeR packs multiple roller-derby sequences, a riot, a roller-coaster ride, vomit, spit, blood, sex and love. In short, the JaMMeR is the King Lear of roller-derby plays.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mercury And the Magic, The

Synopsis:
the Open Road. Mike and Joe. Two possum contemplating their place in the universe.

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1st Produced:
Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States)    2007

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
8-10 min Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  2 males, 1 either (3 actors possible: 0-3 males, 0-3 females)

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Open Road Anthology, The

Synopsis:
the call of the open road has reverberated since the founding of our nation: the wind in our hair and promise of a new life around the corner; or in the legacy of land taken, communities divided and the increasingly guarded borders behind which Americans drive. Comic and thought-provoking, these writers examine how America's yearning for unfettered freedom resonates today and where it rings hollow.

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written by Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Michael John Garces, Rolin Jones, A. Rey Pamatmat And Kathryn Walat, with music by GrooveLily

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2006-2007 Actors Theatre apprentice Company

1st Published:
Humana Festival 2007: the Complete Plays, 2008   -

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Ron Bobby Had Too Big A Heart

Synopsis:
a shotgun, some ammo, bottle of chloroform, the prom queen in a laundry bag. . .just two young girls of age packing for a road trip.

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1st Produced:
Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States)    2007

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
8-10 min Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  3 females

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Short Stack

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Playscripts Inc   -

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Sovereignty

Synopsis:
the neighbors are acting strange and the mail is piling up, but Mrs. elsbeth is determined to turn a blind eye. a scathing and satiric play about the people right next door. (This play is also available in the collection Humana Festival 2006: the Complete Plays.)

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1st Produced:
Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States)    2006

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
10 min Dark comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  2 males, 2 females

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These! Paper! Bullets!

Synopsis:
In London the Liverpool pop group The Quartos are trying to cut an album. But their former drummer will stop at nothing to destroy them all

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Music by Billie Joe Armstrong. Inspired by "Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare.

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Yale Repertory Theatre    14 Mar 2014

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Genre:
Play with music

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