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| Guy J. Jackson is a writer, performer, and filmmaker. He can be caught up with at myspace.com/storytellinguyjj, his all-original storytelling CDs are available from lazygramophone.com, and his short movies have been spewed all over the internet, but are mostly viewable at youtube.com/Guyjjackson. He currently lives in London. |
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| Jeffrey Jackson. Frankenstein is Mr. Jackson's first work for the stage. His second, a comedy-drama entitled Two Point Oh received its first professional production at Detroit Rep in April 2010. (A sample is available to read at the play's website: www.twopointoh.info)
Mr. Jackson began his professional life in the world of advertising, launching his own graphic design firm at a very young age. He would soon go on to write and direct award-winning television commercials and videos for high-profile corporate clientele.
Several years ago, he made a deliberate career change to pursue his first love -- the performing arts. He penned an award-winning screenplay, White Collared, which won Best Screenplay from the Santa Barbara Film Festival and was optioned by award-winning independent film producers Filbert Steps Productions. He also wrote, directed, and performed in an acclaimed short film, Our First Fight, which has toured film festivals around the world. Mr. Jackson has also worked as an assignment writer for Walt Disney Productions, creating screenplays for animated shorts in development.
Mr. Jackson is also a talented musician and songwriter, having written and performed jingles for Hertz and Novartis. He resides in northern New Jersey with his wife Kathleen Campbell, a professional actress and vocalist. |
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| Nagle Jackson is the author of several plays, adaptations and translations which have been produced at leading theaters throughout the U.S., from American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Seattle Rep in the West, to the McCarter, Kennedy Center and New York's Intar Theater in the East. Several of his plays, e.g. Taking Leave, The Quick-Change Room, A Hotel on Marvin Gardens, debuted at The Denver Center, for which theater he also created several translations from the works of Moliere. His play The Elevation of Thieves was prize winner in the Onassis Foundation International Playwriting Contest, an award presented to Mr. Jackson by the President of Greece in Athens, 1998.
Mr. Jackson was Artistic Director of both the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and the McCarter Theater. He continues to direct as a guest artist with theaters throughout this country and in Europe. He has been a Master Director with The Directors' Company in New York for several years.
Mr. Jackson resides with his wife in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. |
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| Laura Jacqmin was the recipient of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize for an emerging female playwright. Her plays include Look, We Are Breathing (Sundance Institute Theatre Lab), Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (originally produced by At Play/Chicago Dramatists in 2010 and subsequently remounted at 16th Street Theater and Theater on the Lake in 2011) and Ski Dubai (Steppenwolf Theatre Company's First Look Repertory of New Work). Her work has been produced and developed at Atlantic Theater Company, Vineyard Theatre, Ars Nova, Joe's Pub, Chicago Dramatists, Second Stage Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, 24 Hour Plays Off Broadway and more. She spent summer 2011 in residence at London's Royal Court Theatre as part of their International Residency. She is currently working on commissions for South Coast Repertory, Arden Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theater/National New Play Network, Carthage College and the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Ms. Jacqmin holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Ohio University. |
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| Justin Jain has been a writer / performer with The Berserker Residents since 2007. With BR, Mr. Jain has created several original works including The Jersey Devil, The Giant Squid, The Annihilation Point, and The Very Merry Xmas Carol Holiday Adventure Show. As a freelance actor, Mr. Jain has performed with Milwaukee Rep, McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare In Clark Park, and People's Light and Theatre Company, to name a few. Mr. Jain's other written original work include his solo-fantasia Neverboy and Shift / Transfer. |
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Jesse Jamison was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. He currently resides in Springfield, where he studies theatre at Missouri State University. He has written several one-act plays and is working on his second full-length show. His first one-act, Friendly Competition, was selected as a finalist in the 2003 Thespian Playworks contest and won a Merit Award in Play or Script Writing in the 2003 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) contest. Mr. Jamison has been acting since he was a child and has been writing plays since high school, thanks to his high school's wonderful theatre program. He is currently available. |
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| Elaine Jarvik is a journalist for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, and likes to play the conga drum. Her 10-minute Play Dead Right was produced at the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays. |
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| Len Jenkin is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. His plays include Margo Veil, Dark Ride, Pilgrims of the Night, Careless Love, My Uncle Sam, Limbo Tales, and Like I Say. His works for the stage, often directed by him, have been produced throughout the United States, as well as in England, France, Germany, and Japan. His films include Blame It On the Night, Welcome to Oblivion, and American Notes. His novel N Judah is currently available in bookstores and on the web at lenjenkin.com.
He has received many honors and awards, including three OBIE awards for Directing and Playwriting, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Award, a nomination for an Emmy Award, and four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Mr. Jenkin holds a Ph.D in American Literature from Columbia University. He's a Professor in the Dramatic Writing Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. |
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| Daniel Jenkins. Broadway credits include Dad in Billy Elliot, George Banks in Mary Poppins, Clifford Pike in Wrong Mountain, Josh Baskin in Big (Drama Desk nomination), Prior Walter in Angels in America, Huck Finn in Big River (1985 Tony and Drama Desk nominations) and Mark Twain in the revival of Big River (2003). Off-Broadway credits include: Sex Lives of Our Parents (Second Stage); Benefactors (Keen Company); Love Child (Primary Stages); Albert in Bye Bye Birdie, Prez in The Pajama Game (Encores!); Spinning Into Butter (Lincoln Center); Dream True, The Maiden's Prayer and composer/performer in Feast Here Tonight (Vineyard Theatre); Triumph of Love (CSC); Johnny in Johnny Pye (The Lamb's); Five Visits from Mr. Whitcomb (Young Playwrights Festival). Regional: Blue Flower (ART); In the Footprint (Arts Emerson); title roles in The Education of Randy Newman (ACT), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Hangar Theater), and Fortinbras (La Jolla); Twelfth Night (La Jolla); Citizen Tom Paine (Philadelphia Theatre Company/Kennedy Center). Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Grapes of Wrath, A Christmas Carol, Rites of Passage, Little People (playwright), Fast Women, Julius Caesar, Coup/Clucks, Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music, Neutral Countries. O'Neill Playwrights Center, five years at Sundance Playwrights Lab. Films for Robert Altman: O.C. in O.C. and Stiggs, Stringer in Gary Trudeau's Tanner '88, Willie Keith in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Other film: Joshua, Cradle Will Rock, Glory, In Country, What Comes Around, Infested, The Perfect You, and Five Corners. Television: "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: SVU," "Cracker," "The Knife and Gun Club," "Florida Straits" and Alex in "Going to Extremes." |
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| Julie Jensen is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for New American Plays (White Money), the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work (The Lost Vegas Series), the LA Weekly Award for Best New Play (Two-Headed), and the McKnight National Playwriting Fellowship (Wait!). She has won the Mill Mountain Theatre Playwriting Competition three times (Tender Hooks, Last Lists of My Mad Mother, and Two-Headed). Her plays have been produced in London (The Lost Vegas Series) and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Last Lists of My Mad Mother). In the U.S. she has been produced by the Women's Project in New York (Two-Headed and Cheat) as well as in theatres nationwide. Her work has been commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum, ASK Theatre Projects, and the Kennedy Center. Recently awarded the NEA/TCG Residency Grant, she wrote and premiered Wait! She now holds a major grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, and as Resident Playwright at Salt Lake Acting Company is writing The Goshute Play. |
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| CJ Johnson's play The Dog Logs has had multiple productions throughout Australia including an Australian tour, and "Borys The Rottweiler," one of the dog logs, is one of Australia's most-performed monologues. He was short-listed for the Phillip Parsons Young Playwright of the Year Award in 2004 for his play Backpacker. His plays The Young Tycoons, La La Land, and Barnesy, the Harbour and You have all had multiple, successful seasons in Sydney. An award-winning filmmaker as well as playwright, he lives in Sydney and Los Angeles. |
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| Dave Johnson is a graduate of The University of the Arts and has been a Philadelphia-based actor for the last six years. Previous Philly fringe hits include 2009's The Jersey Devil, and 2008's The Giant Squid. Mr. Johnson was last seen playing a cybernetic troublemaker with a spinning heart in the Berserker's Annihilation Point, an out of this world hora-trage-comedy. This remounting of the show -- seen at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City -- garnered stellar reviews in The New York Times and the Village Voice, among other papers. Even his shiny silver shorts got a mention. He is currently playing Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Lantern Theater (Philadelphia).
Work with other local Philadelphia theaters include Mum Puppettheater, Enchantment Theatre Co., CCTC, Theatre Horizon, and Theatre Exile. Love to G. |
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| Chloe Johnston has been an ensemble member of The Neo-Futurists since 2001, and she regularly writes and performs in their late-night show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, in addition to appearing in The News Show and creating The Emmett Project. Her work has toured throughout the U.S. and to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has appeared as an actress with various companies throughout Chicago and she is a founding member of I-80 Drama Co. Ms. Johnston also teaches drama at the University of Chicago. |
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| Jason King Jones is a freelance director and an Artistic Associate at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, where he was directed main-stage and touring shows for over a decade. He has been a guest director at numerous universities and taught at Boston University, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Missouri State University. Mr. Jones is member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actors' Equity and The Acting Company. He is married to stage manager Josiane M. Lemieux and is a proud father of Gwendolyn Lemieux Jones. |
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| Jeffrey M. Jones is the author of 70 Scenes Of Halloween, Nightcoil, and A Man's Best Friend; a series of collage plays: Der Inka Von Peru, Tomorrowland, and Wipeout; a series of "Crazy Plays": Stone Monkey Banished (an adaptation of Monkey for Ralph Lee), 12 Brothers (an adaptation of the Grimm Brothers' tale, with Camila Jones); and two musicals: Write If You Get Work (score: Dan Moses Schreier) and J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation (score: Jonathan Larson). His plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Inc., and Sun & Moon Press. Mr. Jones also is co-curator of the OBIE-winning Little Theatre series, and holds an annual Pataphysics workshop at the Flea. |
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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 of Jenny 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, including Sovereignty, Ron Robby Had Too Big A Heart, The Mercury and the Magic, Extremely, and Chronicles Simpkins Will Cut Your Ass. All of these were recently produced together under the title Shortstack at 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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| Syl Jones is the author of 60-plus plays, including Black No More, produced by the Guthrie Theater and Arena Stage and winner of the Kennedy Center Award for Best New Play of 1998. He is the only playwright to win the Mixed Blood Theater Versus America and the Penumbra Theater Cornerstone awards in the same year. He began his career as a journalist in Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 14. In 1980, his historic interview with physicist William B. Shockley appeared in Playboy magazine and has since been anthologized in The Best of The Playboy Interviews, Vol. II. Mr. Jones writes an editorial column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper and is the author of Rescuing Little Roundhead: A Childhood In Stories, published by Milkweed Editions in 1996. He runs a thriving communications consulting business that includes clients such as Medtronic, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the NorthWay Community Trust, and HealthPartners. |
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| Thomas W. Jones II has directed, written, and performed in more than 200 plays worldwide. In 1978, Tom founded Jomandi Productions, where, as Co-Artistic Director and Producing Director, Tom led Jomandi to become the third largest African-American theatre company in the United States. His work as a writer, director, and actor has been acclaimed nationally and internationally. His work has received 42 Washington DC Helen Hayes Award nominations and won 12 awards, including Best Director for Samm Art Williams' Home and his own Bessie's Blues. He has also received 3 New York Audelco Award nominations, the Dramalogue Award, the San Diego Critics Award, and the NAACP Phoenix Award, among others. In 2000, Tom and his co-founders left Jomandi to create the entertainment company VIA International Artists, Inc. and subsequently VIA Theatrical. His most recent works include Three Sistahs, Point of Revue, Two Queens One Castle, and Cool Papa's Party, and he is currently working on an after hours cabaret series based on Delores Bundy's Brown Sugar Diaries. |
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| Julia Jordan is the author of SMOKING LESSON, TATJANA IN COLOR, BOY, ST. SCARLET and DARK YELLOW among others. Lucille Lortel Fellow, Juilliard Fellow, Manhattan Theater Club Fellow, Kleban Award Winner, Jonathan Larson Award winner. Member of New Dramatists and the Dramatist Guild Council. |
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