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Jason Wells

JASON WELLS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  

Jason Wells first play, Men of Tortuga, had a critically-acclaimed debut at Steppenwolf Theatre's First Look Repertory of New Work, went on to a successful run at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and has had numerous subsequent productions in the US and Ireland. Mr. Wells' second play, Perfect Mendacity, was a commission from Manhattan Theatre Club and the Sloan Foundation. Like Tortuga, it debuted at Steppenwolf and went on to its official world premiere at the Asolo. In 2010, it won the American Theatre Critics Association's M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, and was a finalist for the Steinberg/New Play Award. the North Plan also debuted at First Look, and had its official world premiere at Portland Center Stage in January of 2012. Mr. Wells is also an actor with numerous TV, film, and stage credits.

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         Men Of Tortuga         North Plan, The         Perfect Mendacity

Men Of Tortuga

Men Of Tortuga
Negotiation, conspiracy, and assassination: four power-brokers will stop at nothing to wreck a historic meeting. But when one of them takes a young idealist under his wing, his long-dormant conscience begins to reawaken

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North Plan, The

North Plan, The
After a ruthless faction seizes power in Washington, Carlton Berg, a bureaucrat for the State Department, runs off with the new regime's top secret enemies list. Unfortunately for Carlton, the chase has come to an end in a police station in the Ozarks town of Lodus. With a pair of DHS agents on the way, Carlton's last hope is in the people around him: an unsympathetic police chief, an ambivalent administrative assistant, and fellow prisoner Tanya Shepke, a motor-mouthed recidivist who's turned herself in for drunk driving and thinks Skynyrd should be on the new money. the revolution starts now.

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Jaw Playwright Festival, Portland Center Stage    25 Jul 2010

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dark comedy

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Perfect Mendacity

Perfect Mendacity
Walter Kreutzer, a microbiologist for a defense contractor, is being investigated by his employers over an incriminating memo that was leaked to the media. Walter thinks his Moroccan wife may have done the whistle-blowing, and to protect her - and himself - Walter needs to learn how to beat a lie detector, and fast. D'avore Peoples, a polygraph consultant, is happy to help - for a price, of course. But D'avore's technique will require Walter to look deep within himself, a terrifying prospect for a man hiding from his past. With his best friend spying on him, his wife intent on opening old wounds, and D'avore uncovering dark secrets, Walter's desperate journey toward the perfect lie becomes a spiral into paranoia and bitter reckoning.

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Winner! 2010 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for An Emerging Playwright

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Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, Illinois    26 Jul 2008

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